Director: Pete Travis (Vantage Point & Endgame)
Starring: Karl Urban (Star Trek & Red); Lena Heady (300, Game of Thrones); Olivia Thirlby
Running Time: 95 mins
Judgement has come! Finally after over 15 years, Dredd, the way he was intended, has come to save the world. Ok, it's only one building so far. There's not a moment to breath as the movie opens with a high speed car chase along Johannesburg's M1 through swarms of taxis and Putco busses. Oh sorry, I didn't tell you, Dredd was shot mostly in Joburg and Cape Town. Once the first perp is caught, it's almost non-stop, gut spewing, head exploding, cheek ripping, eye gouging gratuitous violence from there. Dredd (played by the relatively unknown Karl Urban) is a no-nonsense judge who has no qualms dishing out beatings and death sentences on the spot and along with his psychic rookie partner, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) they follow an extremely simple storyline to catch the baddy. The baddy, Ma-ma, is played by Lena Headey (you'll remember her as the incestuous Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones) and even with her scars and rotten teeth, she's still sexy. Not too keen on the performance though. Nonetheless, if you're up for a proper hour & a half escape with guns, killing and slo-mo, then you're gonna enjoy this. My best parts of the film, when people inhale the drug 'Slo-mo'...the 3D effects really are very pretty. And apparently this might just become a trilogy...that's all for now.
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