"Dredd" R
The 2012 remake of the awful Judge Dredd comic book movie from the 1980s is actually a vast improvement over the original, and comes off as a nod to various city, or structure, under hostile control scenarios, including 'Escape from New York' and 'Die Hard'. The weird hybrid of police state drama opens about 60 years in the future, after the old world is in ruin, and only the mega cities protect the 800 million survivors. It is not clear if each city houses 800 million or whether it's all of them total. The gritty and dingy underworld overrun city has only one law, the justice team, which sounds like it could be Justice League, only it's not. This Hall of Justice is kind of evil, doling out judgment and sentencing immediately upon capture, with armed and helmeted judges, like Dredd and his rookie, Henderson the girl with ESP powers. The drug on the street is SloMo, which if it only slows time for the user and doesn't make their reflexes faster, is kind of stupid, but okay. In the city complex amusingly called Peach Tree, there is an evil drug lord name Mama who controls things, but Dredd and the rookie get trapped inside, and muse make their way to her lair to stop her, but she fights ball with an arsenal of criminals. Funny that Karl Urban replaces Stallone in the role of Dredd. Decent escapist entertainment. Don't take it too seriously.
Review by Adam Browne
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