Review of Dredd (2012) by Stevenf — 26 Jan 2013

This film took risks, but they certainly paid off.

Perhaps it wasn't a box office success, but its difficult to reboot something that was so awful first time around, whatever the reason, Dredd deserves to get a cult status in more wyas than one.

Set in a post-atomic age where the remaining humans live in 'mega-cities', the city is maintained through the law of 'judges', motorbike riding officers who deal with the overwhelming crime on the streets.

Among the Judges is the most famed and feared of all...Dredd (Karl Urban).

It has touches of Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into this hour and half action flick.

Urban does a fantastic job as the lead character, conveying his emotion brilliantly, all the while while having to wear the helmet.

Joining Dredd is rookie judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) who is also a psychic, Thirlby holds her own here, relatively unknown to most in terms of the action genre.

On the other side of the coin is is Game of Thrones Lena Headey playing disturbed drud lord Ma-Ma, who is distributing a new drug Slo-Mo into the city.

Dredd doesn't waste time trying to correct mistakes of its own genre, its goes full throttle into the film and doesnt hold back on blood, guts and all around gore...