In a dystopian future Earth, the area between New York and Boston has become a crime-ridden urban mass of 800 million people known as Mega City. Keeping the peace are combination policemen-judges who make the arrests, determine guilt and then execute the sentence. Judge Dredd is among the best at what he does and he is assigned a rookie, Cassandra Anderson, who did not meet the minimum requirements for the job but who has one talent most do not: she is a mutant with psychic abilities. They soon find themselves inside Peach Trees, a 200 story building that houses among many others Ma-Ma a gangster who produces the drug of choice in Mega City, slo-mo. Ma-Ma shuts the building down determined that Dredd and Anderson will never again see the light of day.
In the vast, post-apocalyptic metropolis of Mega City One on America&#39;s east coast, the only law is provided by the Judges of the Hall of Justice - cops with the power of judge, jury and executioner. Most feared among these law-keepers is the ruthless and implacable Judge Dredd (<a href=">Karl Urban). More and more of the inhabitants of Mega City One are addicted to a drug that alters the brain&#39;s perception of time: Slo-Mo. While assigned to train and evaluate Cadet Judge Cassandra Anderson (<a href=">Olivia Thirlby), Dredd is called to investigate a crime in Peach Trees, the notorious high-rise slum tower controlled by former prostitute-turned-drug-lord, Ma-Ma (<a href=">Lena Headey) and her clan. The Judges capture one of the clan&#39;s senior members and Ma-Ma locks down the tower, leaving Dredd and Anderson with a choice: escape the slum with their prisoner or climb to the top of the tower to capture Ma-Ma and judge her as well.
Most of the reviews you read of &#39;Dredd&#39; will offer comparisons to the 1995 shambles &#39;Judge Dredd&#39; starring Sylvester Stallone. This took a couple of core ideas from the comic hero and added some flying motorbikes, kissing and, lamentably, Rob Schneider. The new Dredd is so far removed from the first attempt that, apart from the helmet, you wouldn&#39;t recognise it. &#39;Dredd&#39; 2012 is a visceral, hardboiled thriller where the wise cracks are dead pan and the violence bone crunchingly realistic.<br/><br/>The film opens with Judge Dredd on patrol, in pursuit of some drugged up perps who are creating carnage on the roads. Any idea of comic book violence is quickly dispensed as a pedestrian and then the perps are dispatched in eye watering fashion. Make no mistake, the &#39;18&#39; certificate is justified and the splatter is all the worse for being in eye-popping 3D.<br/><br/>The film proper opens as Dredd is summoned to a meeting with the Chief Judge and assigned a rookie to assess. The rookie, Anderson, has mutant psychic abilities and is viewed as a potential asset to the struggling department, but has fallen short of the Academy of Law&#39;s pass standard. Dredd is charged with assessing the rookie&#39;s capabilities and is immediately unimpressed with his charge&#39;s potential. He rhymes off the problems the city faces with the depleted Judge force only capable of handling 6% of reported crimes.<br/><br/>Given a free hand to chose their first call Anderson picks a triple homicide at the Peach Trees Block - Huge mistake! This block is the domain of Ma-Ma, the crime boss in charge of &#39;Slo-Mo&#39;, a new drug sweeping the city that lets the user experience reality at 1% of real time. The Judges arrive to assess the crime scene but Ma-Ma is ahead of the game and with the help of a cyber-eyed hacker locks down the building and tasks her addicted inhabitants with the job of dispatching the law enforcers.<br/><br/>With no back up available Dredd and Anderson have to stay alive and try to knock the evil drug lord from her perch at the top of the block - 200 floors away. Can they survive the battle against the criminals and other forces sent against them? Will the rookie save the day and will Dredd&#39;s helmet stay untouched for the duration? As a near life long fan of 2000ad and Judge Dredd the development of this film has been high on my anticipation last for nigh on two years, and I&#39;m amazed to say that it managed to live up to my expectations.<br/><br/>Firstly, Karl Urban is excellent as Dredd. His voice is pretty much how I&#39;ve imagined Dredd to sound for 25 years and his lip curls and jaw acting are fantastic. His delivery is on the right side of caricature and although he doesn&#39;t engage us with much empathy we&#39;re never in doubt that he is a devoted and single minded servant of the law. His character arc isn&#39;t great but frankly I wouldn&#39;t want him to learn about himself in the course of the film - his resolve is unbreakable, just how it should be.<br/><br/>The rookie Anderson was played by Olivia Thirlby and again, she was excellent. Many fans, myself included, feel Anderson is a bit touchy feely but here her vulnerabilities added to the character and in truth it&#39;s really her film by way of character development. Her building of confidence as the film progresses is expertly judged and believable.<br/><br/>Of the three main characters, the villain, Ma-Ma is the weakest. I wasn&#39;t convinced that she had the drive or charisma to lead legions of cannon fodder gangsters and her powers were limited to looking a bit thoughtful. Given the down to earth reality of the film this wasn&#39;t a major problem, but a memorable and frightening bad guy would have made for a better spectacle overall.<br/><br/>Much as been said of the contemporary look of this sci-fi thriller and it&#39;s true that some of the vehicles look more 1990 than 2090. There is however plenty of good tech such as Dredd&#39;s wrist com and weaponry, and the new, set against the old, does highlight the divisions in the future society.<br/><br/>The film runs a lean 96 minutes and although I spent too long looking for the in-jokes and references I didn&#39;t feel it flagged at all. I did have some minor quibbles with the appearance of bent Judges which harked back to the Stallone film and undermined the Justice Department as an elite force, but these were negligible.<br/><br/>On balance though, the film is a triumph with amazing 3D effects and a body count to well justify the &#39;18&#39; certificate. Not for the squeamish or art house lovers but &#39;Dredd&#39; is pure escapist enjoyment that will see repeat viewings from me and hopefully many others.
I&#39;m not a big fan of Stallone really, but to anyone who is thinking about seeing this movie, don&#39;t. The original was totally better. This could have been any cop themed movie, and throwing the Judge angle on it was just a poor attempt to sell it and an insult to the fans. It wasn&#39;t very interesting, over half the movie was drug out. Had plenty of action, but nothing really impressive. Action sequences and special effects were no better than a low budget TV movie. All that said, I am a fan of Karl Urban though. Think he is a great actor who played his role in the movie fairly well. His co-partner in the movie is kind of hot too and did a decent job. There was more bad acting than good though.
In a world of compromised adaptations, Dredd is something of a triumph.
In the walled city of Mega City One in a post apocalyptic future America where crime is out of control. Judge Dredd (<a href="/name/nm0881631/">Karl Urban</a>), a tough cop who is a member of an elite police force called the Judges, is assigned to supervise the 24-hour training of incompetent rookie Cassandra Anderson (<a href="/name/nm1880888/">Olivia Thirlby</a>) who happens to be a mutant with telepathic abilities. Dredd and Anderson go to the apartment building &quot;Peace Trees&quot; to investigate an incident, but the building is soon sealed off and taken over by the evil and psychotic Ma-Ma (<a href="/name/nm0372176/">Lena Headey</a>), leader of a clan that is manufacturing a narcotic called &quot;Slo-Mo&quot;. Ma-Ma declares that she won&#39;t allow anyone to leave until both Dredd and Anderson are eliminated. With communications cut off and no help from other Judges, Dredd and Anderson are forced to take on the Ma-Ma clan themselves and the Peach Trees apartment building soon turns into a war zone as Dredd is determined not to let anything stand in his way and to bring Ma-Ma to justice. No. This is an original film based on the Judge Dredd character from the British comic 2000 AD and is unrelated to <a href="/title/tt0113492/">Judge Dredd (1995)</a> (1995), which is adapted from the same source. In the 36 years that Judge Dredd has been appearing in comics, his face has never been shown fully. Most fans agree that never showing Dredd&#39;s face helps to make Dredd a personification of justice; he&#39;s not just a citizen with a normal face, he&#39;s the law, and the helmet is the only face he needs. The faces of Dredd and his clone Rico are shown as young boys in the story The Return of Rico (Case Files vol 1), and the face of their clone Father, Fargo (to whom they should be identical), is shown in Dredd Angel (Case Files vol 8). In parts of The Dead Man/Necropolis (Case Files 14) Dredd&#39;s face is shown in full but is obscured by horrific injuries. The Lawgiver from the 2012 film is voice-controlled and its grip has a DNA reader that causes the gun to explode if anyone but the owner attempts to use it. It fires the following types of rounds: (1) Full Metal Jacket, (2) Incendiary, (3) Hotshot, (4) Armor-piercing, (5) Stun, (6) Hi-Ex (High Explosive). In the comics, the Lawgiver has a dial allowing different types of ammunition to be selected and a palm-print scanner in the grip that causes the gun to self-destruct if anyone but the owner tries to use it. It fires 6 types of ammunition: (1) Standard, (2) Ricochet, (3) Heat-seeker, (4) Hi-Ex, (5) Incendiary, (6) Armor-piercing. Later stories have added various extra bullet types, including a stun gun feature, tear gas rounds, &quot;Exorcist Bullets&quot; designed for supernatural foes, and electronic tracker rounds. Before throwing her through the window, Dredd states that he doubts the range of the transmitter would be greater than the distance between the receiver attached to the explosives and the ground floor. His theory is proven correct when she hits the ground and the LED on her wrist goes from green to red, but the bombs are not activated.Open to interpretation. One is that Anderson hands Dredd her badge and walks off convinced she&#39;s failed her assessment but Dredd has actually passed her. The implication is that, whilst Dredd is convinced that Anderson has what it takes to be a judge, he leaves it to her to decide if she wants to be. The last scene shows Anderson carrying a helmet and a new gun walking towards the bikes, suggesting she has learned of Dredd&#39;s evaluation and decided to become a Judge. Another interpretation is that Anderson chooses not to become a judge, as she hints at beforehand when she frees the hacker. Anderson hands Dredd her badge indicating her resignation and Dredd says, &quot;She&#39;s a pass&quot;, using the meaning that she passes on the opportunity to become a Judge. She is seen walking away from the scene, and Dredd returns to the Hall of Justice on his motorcycle alone. Yes. Most of the movie is shot in 3D, using RED MX, SI2K, and Phantom Flex highspeed digital cameras, however it also contains some elements that were converted to 3D in post production. The song used in the original theatrical trailer for Dredd is the Skream remix of La Roux&#39;s &quot;In For the Kill&quot;. The song playing during Dredd and Anderson&#39;s raid on the slo-mo den is &quot;Poison Lips&quot; by Vitalic. When the Clan&#39;s Techie, played by Domhnall Gleeson, is observing the monitors the song playing is Matt Berry&#39;s &quot;Snuffbox&quot; from the TV series of the same name. All other music heard in the film itself is the work of the film&#39;s composer, Paul Leonard-Morgan—whose original soundtrack album can be found on iTunes or Amazon. Anyone wanting to know more about the history and psychology of Dredd should seek out Brothers of the Blood and the collected epic Tour of Duty (collected in two books, subtitled The Backlash and Megacity Justice); which both centre much more on the character of Dredd himself and his relationship with the city and his job. Both books give new readers the background necessary to get the most out of Origins—by Dredd&#39;s creators, Wagner and Ezquerra—which explores the events that shaped the creation of the city, the justice system, and Dredd himself. Readers seeking Dredd stories that reflect the gritty tone and themes of the film, should seek out The Pit or Total War, the latter of which is a spiritual successor to and continues many of the themes explored in the classic Dredd story America. Tour of Duty covers similar territory to the inter-judicial conflict and mutant prejudice of the film (Anderson is a mutant), and Mandroid depicts Megacity One as the kind of place that crushes the humanity of its citizens in the same manner as the film. Anyone interested in the character of Anderson, featured in the film, can get some background in the series of reprints called The Psi Files. The Apocalypse War (found in The Complete Case Files vol 5) is probably the best of Dredd&#39;s epic adventures, and is written and drawn by Dredd&#39;s co-creators, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, as is the superb Judge Death epic Necropolis (Case Files vol 14). The Dredd tale which most readers agree represents the best combination of story and art in the strip&#39;s history—and which offers a much darker, more sophisticated view of Dredd, Megacity One and the Justice System—is America, by John Wagner and Colin MacNeil; a story whose focus is on the lives of ordinary citizens under the totalitarian rule of the judges, and in which Dredd essentially plays the part of the villain. Dredd first appeared in the second issue (or &quot;prog&quot; as they are known) of the weekly British comic 2000 AD published on 5 March 1977. Judge Dredd&#39;s weekly adventures are collected in a series of volumes known as The Complete Case Files (currently 23 volumes). Although there&#39;s lots to recommend in Dredd&#39;s early output, including classic stories such as The Cursed Earth and The Day The Law Died in volume 2, these early volumes are a sometimes less than ideal place to start reading because of their uneven narrative tone and art style. The Complete Case Files 3 through 5 are, by common consent, the point at which the strip overcame its growing pains and turned into something really interesting—and they make an ideal jumping on point for new readers. The characters of most interest to new or casual readers seem to be Judge Death and the Dark Judges, whose first appearances are drawn by Brian Bolland and can be found in The Complete Case Files volumes 3 and 5, and in the utterly superb full-colour epic Necropolis, which is reprinted in Case Files vol 14 and is written and drawn by Dredd&#39;s co-creators, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. They also appear in volume one of Judge Anderson&#39;s Psi Files, in a story which serves as a bridge between their appearance in volumes 5 and 14 of The Complete Case Files. The origins of Judge Death are explored in volumes called Death Lives and The Life and Death of Judge Death. The rights holders, DNA films, are no longer actively pursuing the idea of a sequel. In an interview dated 17th December 2014, producer and screenwriter Alex Garland told Sci-fi Now magazine:<br/><br/>[Dredd] manifestly didn&#39;t work as a theatrical release, particularly in America, or in fact anywhere outside of the UK. DVD sales are all very well, but you are still talking to people about them handing over a lot of money for a film that&#39;s happened twice and has not worked in their terms either time. The character has too many positives to be abandoned forever, but its going to be someone else at some future point who restarts it, who has another crack. It will be a different group of people, at a different point in time
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