In the Third Millennium a powerful and efficient hybrid of the police and judicial system has given birth to group of new gaurdians of the law with the power to dispense instant justice and punishment. These judges are law enforcer, jury and executioner. One of these judges, Judge Joseph Dredd (Sylvester Stallone) is a living legend – six feet of armored justice with no outside interests besides his devotion to enforcing the law.

When Dredd is framed for murder by a corrupt Council Judge (Jurgen Prochnow) and receives the maximum sentence (banishment for life to the wasteland of “Cursed Earth”), he must overcome the plot against him and save the city for which he has for so long been a loyal servant…dealing out his own lethal brand of justice along the way.