My main gripe is that it is not the ultra-modern city from the comics, at least from the comics that I have read since I have not read them all. I have a few gripes about the movie though. Sufficiently psychopathic yet intelligent and rational enough to make a believable, at least as believable as a Judge Dredd villain can be, adversary to Dredd. “Ma-Ma” is also a quite okay bad guy for this movie. Judge Dredd is not supposed to remove his helmet, period. I’m sure it was done to satisfy Stallone’s ego in the 1995 movie and it was one of the things that ruined it. Judge Dredd himself is well played by Karl Urban and, thankfully, he does not remove the helmet in this movie. I especially liked the effects on the people standing behind the door that Dredd blew in at the beginning of the movie.
I think it is used quite well in this movie though. This of course gave the director carte blanche to use extreme slow motion effects which could have been quite annoying if overdone. The plot centres around the drug “Slo-Mo” which slows down your perception of time. It is a quite suitable plot for a Judge Dredd movie. The plot is a fairly simple one but it is also a plot that I would not have been surprised to find in one of the 2000 AD comics. Anyone who has ever read the comics should not be surprised about the fact that this movie is mostly about taking out the bad guys, and if you cannot take out the bad guys using violence then just use more violence.Įxcept for a few gripes that I will come to I quite liked this movie. That of course means that the movie is quite violent. I think this adaptation of the Judge Dredd comics books are a much more how most people probably would expect that a Judge Dredd movie should be, especially compared to the rather disappointing 1995 version. Reviewed by Dark Jedi 7 / 10 Reviewed on February 16, 2013, Sat at 11:12 AM
But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland.
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