Starring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Wood Harris
Certificate: 18
Genre: Sci Fi, Crime
Awards: None
It's the future and a terrible travesty has befallen the land. The remaining people live in large cities filled with criminals and death. The Judges are a police force who are allowed to kill on the spot. Dredd (Urban) is the most famous of them all, a sort of legend among the judges. On his mission to investigate a triple homicide he takes on a psychic rookie by the name of Anderson (Thirlby).Like 300, Dredd seems very confined. It doesn't show you much of the film's world as - except for one sequence in the beginning - it all takes place in one tower block. This works in the film's favour as it can then focus more on the story. However, sequels may seem schizophrenic as it would be a whole new setting.
Having not read the comics, I don't know whether Urban's portrayal is loyal but I've heard he does it justice (I suppose anything's better than Stallone shouting like a tranquillised Hulk). The feels very moody and stylised with lots of slow motion (which has actually been made a plot point) and weird psychotic colours.
Dredd is gritty but also quite colourful and dreamlike. The drugged up atmosphere stops it from becoming too dark and brooding while still keeping the gangs and gore madness.
****Good
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