Judge Dredd (1995)

As the title character of Judge Dredd, a heavy-metal law enforcer who roams the sets of Blade Runner — excuse me, the futuristic urban wasteland of Mega-City One — arresting, ''judging,'' and (mostly) offing criminal scum, Sylvester Stallone wears a suit of paramilitary robot armor that's so huge and bulky and dehumanizing it makes Val Kilmer's S & M Batsuit look like something off the Gr'Animals rack.

The special effects are messy and cluttered, but atmospheric; they show us a Megacity that looks like a cross between the cities in " Blade Runner " and "Total Recall," with buildings towering into the sky and gangs rumbling in the streets and helpful neon signs that say things like "Store."

Despite its relatively poor showing at the box office, 2012’s Dredd reboot is remembered much more fondly than 1995’s Sylvester Stallone-starring stinker, Judge Dredd .

There's a 'tank', which is built around a Saracen armoured car but those have been cosplaying in comic book movies since at least Judge Dredd…

It's the Dirty Harry school of hanging judgment--the iconography of Eastwood and Bronson and Stallone in the '80s (culminating for the latter in the ultimate state-sanctioned vigilante, Judge Dredd)--and it's only really interesting for its popularity again amid the reign of a President who's modeled his administration after Reagan's.

Instead of veering into outright insanity, director Pitof (apparently this generation’s Tarsem) and the gang of writers come up with the same old stupidities; incoherent action scenes, evil villains whose diabolical plans make absolutely no sense and, in the character of Patience’s co-worker played by Alex Borstein, the single most annoying sidekick character since Rob Schneider appeared in "Judge Dredd".