You can tell Rico cared for Dredd and didn't saw him as a lab experiment but as family, he just didn't want to be a pawn of the council. Rico was a criminal, no question but to him Dredd was family
Yeah I liked that about Rico. You can tell he cared for dredd when he lowered his gun first when they first faced off. He had plenty of opportunities to kill dredd and didn’t
@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 more like a sociopath. He can feel empathy just on an extremely weak scale and only for his brother. Psychopaths can't feel emotions at all.
@@KLamki1 actually if you think about he is a sociopath. Psychopaths are born and sociopaths are made. By society being unjust or unfair. And judging how he says "I betrayed THIS", gesturing to metaphorical "government/society/world order/you name it", you can think he for real being a sociopath.
Regardless of what people say this movie was amazing. It was my introduction to the greatness of Judge Dredd and frankly I think it was one of the best movies of 1995. Armand Assante stole whole movie if you ask me.
Agreed. He played Rico so well, and yet his movies after this movie were like...not up to this standard. I mean, I thought he was high caliber but..i dunno. Someone feel free to suggest some good Armand Assante flimgs by all means
I don't know why I feel the need to see the part where Rico says; "im the only family you never haaaahd!" the way his voice breaks is the best part of it... for some reason
I like that part in particular because it’s a brief moment that shows Rico is actually semi emotionally invested in all this. He’s a murdering psychopath yes but he’s genuinely upset at the notion of his own blood betraying him and you can tell in that half second his voice breaks.
This scene is a great example of why, even if you're offered an acting role or some other position in life you consider below yourself - you should give it everything you have. For a film filled complete with cheese, Armand Assante didn't get the attention he deserves until only now.
The movie is filled with 'Ham and cheese' but not everything it did or thought up was bad. While Rico can feel s little chaotic at times Assante manages to pull through with all of his aspects and, in a way, he was meant to.
There's a scene in the comics where a lab technician points out to Judge Dredd that he's not actually a Mega-City One citizen - as a clone he's Justice Department property. That pretty much continues the theme of the law enforcement community (all recruited at the age of five and subjected to fifteen years of indoctrination at the Academy) as themselves the victims of a totalitarian regime. The Justice Department in this movie was created to control a vastly overcrowded metropolis by an means necessary - they aren't the good guys.
@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 good point - the Space Marines are genetically engineered soldiers who'll never be able to retire, resign or otherwise lead normal lives. It's this separation from normal humanity that ironically leads to the Horus Heresy (arguably, the belief that separation implies superiority, and a rejection of the idea that the Imperium might quietly dispose of them once they're no longer required).
This is a pretty deep scene for a movie that's brimming with cheese. I mean, here Rico stands, contemplating whether or not to create a race of "goddamn brainwashed morons" that the world would call "judges", or to create some freethinking people who would actually count as human. Then he gets emotional over Dredd's decision to turn against him. For a cheeseball film, this was quite deep.
I have always loved this movie - so please dont call it cheesy..Was part of my childhood.. I looked this up cause i remembered the Law - and you should follow it too....
I love this scene, and not even ironically. I know it's not cool to think this is really well done, but this is really well done. It's one of several great scenes in the film, and though the whole things doesn't live up to it's potential as a whole, this part does. Movies are best when the villains have a point. Rico does.
Too bad their careers went in different directions though. You hardly ever see Assante in anything these days, save for mostly guest roles on TV shows like NCIS. But Stallone was in all those expendables movies, which weren't great but still theatrical release films.
Yah, this is by far my favorite scene of the film, and quite frankly, probably a stand-out moment across many movies. I love it when a villain's perspective can be...empathizeable, even when they're clearly thoroughly awful people. Make the villain at least some degree of understandable and their actions and consequences become a lot more impactful to most viewers.
So many years I've been laughing at "the laaaw" line. Never noticed how deep does the "I'm the only family you've ever had" hit. Its sounds so intense and sad at the same time. And the voice crack gives it so much power. Hes a good actor. Much better than the cheesy meme line makes him look like
I feel like a sequel to 2012 Dredd exploring the Rico story arc with Karl Urban returning as dredd but also unmasked playing Rico would be fucking dope, they were twins in the comics after all
My personal headcannon is that DREDD's way of saying (screaming) "LAW!" is pretty ridiculous even in-universe, so when they shout it at each other Rico actually parodies Dredd's delivery. Also Dredd yells it because he values LAW above everything including his life and Rico shouts it to mock his devotion as well as in hatred of the fact that his brother is such a slave to the system.
I'm so glad that Armand Assante is finally getting the appreciation he deserves for his acting in this movie. It's not a great film, but he chews up every piece of scenery that he's in....
Armand Assante is a great actor, he was actually 200 m from my house in 2018 and i didn't knew about it. He was eating @ a hotel where i work now, he also gave an interview outside. It's interesting, the guy is famous and he lives over 7000 km from me and he was close and of course i was to busy to greet him or something.
Best part of this scene in my opinion is that Rico has a point of view that holds some merit. Definitely the scariest thing about him is that he can be correct.
Justice Department was about imposing control over an overcrowded city by any means necessary, no matter how brutal or unethical. You can easily see Rico reacting against that. Instead of resigning and becoming a civilian he apparently killed a lot of people he considered to deserve it.
I know a lot of people consider this to be a terribly tacky film, but I really loved Armand Assante's portrayal of Rico. Even if it was *"overacted"* it was still very enjoyable.
@@tompearce5418 I've read a few of the comics and the justice department are way too heavy handed on the game judge Dredd vs judge Death being arrested for owning a hamster without a licence is ridiculous
tanel sempelson lmao I never noticed that before and now I can't unsee it. Stallone was that short against Armand they put a small chair so they could be face to face for those intense close up shots 🤣
He's not a bad actor. This is overacting, yeah, but he's literally playing a comic-book character who dresses in bright, primary colors and fights bad guys with explodey guns. Watch Rocky or First Blood if you want to see him play a person who has emotions and flaws, not Judge Dredd or Rambo 3. I'm not an actor, but I'm pretty sure how you do it should vary based on what kind of movie it is. Actually, you know what? Just go watch Rocky and First Blood anyway. They're really good.
The problem though is that Dredd isn't a superhero. While it takes place in the future and has fantastic elements, it's basically a cartoon crime drama. No different than say Dick Tracy. Colorful visuals, but serious story.
watch the newer Judge Dredd for a good portrayal of the character all comics are not equal, Dredd was a hyperviolent and grim world where the fantasitical and comedic elements came from dark humor and satirization of the shitty state of things There was and is little to no room for camp or overacting, in fact Judge Dredd is stoic as fuck, He is so well respected in part because of how little of a shit he seems to give when dishing out the law while the world goes to hell around him. Again look at the newer Judge Dredd for a good example of how to portray the character
George Soros "You know I never understood that! .. I mean you already mentioned yourself once in that sentence. There's no need for redundancy, brother."
You know this scene reminds me of The Jedi in the Star Wars films, they always believed themselves to be the greater good and better than The Sith, but they were flawed and very hypocritical at times and it was this that ultimately led to their downfall, they thought that by keeping Anakin at arms length that could control him but they only exacerbated the feelings of alienation he felt towards them and hastened his steps to the Dark Side, the same could probably be said for Rico, he probably begin to harbor resentment at the Council of Judges for wanting him to be "Perfect" and decided he wanted to be his own person a free thinker as he said
Let's not forget that when the sith empire the first original Redskins/human ish sith first appeared and lost the hyperspace war the Jedi were so afraid of a different ideology to their own them and the Republic literally committed genocide on koraban and all the old sith dynasty worlds but this was all done in the name of ""The Greater Good"" and any measure of cruelty and Evil can be done for the greater good thankfully what little of the sith dynasty escaped would eventually become the sith empire but every time the sith Rose the Jedi would kill them legally or not and would eventually make being a sith a crime though I believe that it wasn't a crime by the time of palpatine's rise probably due to palpatine himself and though people love dark bane I think the rule of two was the stupidest thing that ever happened to the Star wars universe and allowed the sith to become a hollow disconnected form of his true self and the Jedi's ultimate failure was being so disconnected from the Republic palpatine was easily able to turn the opinions of the Republic citizen against the Jedi which made it easier to believe the Jedi tried a coup they should have been more accessible to the average citizen instead of being some religious isolationist monks that have from what I can tell unlimited power to do as they please
I can't believe how everyone lowkey loves this movie, but don't want to accept it out loud afraid of the 2012 fans.😡 Just because this movie is colorful, it doesn't mean it's "cheesy or dumb".
Never saw the movie, but from this scene alone...Rico looks like the good guy, and Dredd like the bad guy. I mean he has a good motivation, he just wants to create Humans, not brainwashed morons.
Rico also killed a bunch of police officers minding their own business to do it, plus 2 innocent reporters and a weapon salesman to get Dredd out of the way. I admire his intentions, but he's rather unstable and ruthless.
Apart me wants to see a prequel movie to this that shows Dredd & Rico in the academy and then show what Rico did to get sent off to prison I know Dredd listing off the things he did is still good but I wanna actually see it.
Only the BEST actors can ham it up and get away with it. Armand Asante is a classical actor. I wish he was in more movies. Frank Langella is a great example. Check him out as Skeletor in "Masters of the universe."
LAAAW LAW LAW LAW LA...uh-oh...uh-oh! I feel a musical moment coming on! LAAAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW!
I agree, as shitty as this movie was Assante was the only good actor. Stallone couldn't even hold up a candle to him. I hope the new Dredd movie coming out in September is better than this one.
Remember the very first scene of this movie? You know, the one where Hershey, a rookie and Dredd apprehended whole city blocks? Imagine that being the entire film.
