📽Dredd 2012 (Action/Crime/Sci-Fi) R - 1h 35m "Judgement is Coming. Judge. Jury. Executioner."
⭐️Stars: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey - Director: Pete Travis - Writers: John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra, Alex Garland
📽 Plot: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals with the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One - a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury, and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed. During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a 200-storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute-turned-drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's control center and wages a dirty, vicious war against the Judges that proves she will stop at nothing to protect her empire. With the body count climbing and no way out, Dredd and Anderson must confront the odds and engage in the relentless battle for their survival.—Production
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1. ➤ I really liked this movie. by 0U20 February 2020
Graphic, gripping, and very well-developed. This is exactly what we should see from a comic on this subject matter. The performances are outstanding; everyone plays their role to absolute perfection. Completely loaded with entertaining action and blood to keep you interested. The directing, editing, sound design, and effects, are terrific. A criminally underrated movie that I'm glad got the cult following and recognition it deserves.
2. ➤ Straight to The Point, Well Directed, Really Violent by ben-798-60475825 September 2013
This definitely isn't one of those movies with a lot of character development, but it's not your typical action flick either. This is a beautiful work of art with a lot of stylized violence, desolate alleys with shady characters, and ill intentions. The grungy neon lights of a dystopian future, the scarlet blood and glimmering glass, and the hauntingly beautiful slow motion, what makes this movie great is definitely the visual aspects.
Dredd himself is very one-dimensional, forcedly so. Stern, analytical, gruff, his toughness masking a side of him the audience never actually gets to see. His character is described perfectly in the first few minutes by his new psychic apprentice, which is the last look you get inside of his head before it's slammed shut. He is a man who takes his duty seriously to the point that it consumes him, and defines him.
Ma-ma is sadistically brilliant. Her mob-style domination of the peach tree creates a claustrophobic apprehension for a threat far too big to take on in a box far too small to escape. The terror by which she controls the people is believable and vicious. What's lost in character development is regained by the subtle twisted moments and reactions to the threats imposed on each of the characters.
The psychic scenes were perhaps the most well done and painted a very nice psychological battle between the judge in training and her prisoner. I would've actually enjoyed more of these as they were very surreal and artistic. It's also cool to see the way she breaks him down even after he thinks he has the upper hand.
Slow Mo, the drug this movie centers around, makes for some very awesome fight scenes on par with Sherlock Holmes 2: a Game of Shadows and the Matrix. The visual effects were very well executed and I myself being a visual effects artist, have only one complaint. At some points the blood was a bit oversaturated and toonish, which was likely in an attempt to match the comic but draws away from a few scenes.
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