Dredd (2012)
Country: US/GB/SA/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Pete Travis
Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
In a megalopolis of the future, law enforcement officers are known as judges, and have the power to execute sentence on the spot. One such is given a rookie to assess who has special psychic gifts, and on investigating a triple homicide in a crime-infested tower block they are locked in and hunted down by the presiding drug queen.
Review:
This second attempt at the Judge Dredd comics achieves the appropriate tone: its antihero remains masked throughout, the grungy aesthetic and graphic violence all but evoke images from graphic novel frames. Seek not after beauty or redemption herein, but this is sharp-eyed, sardonic entertainment for adolescent boys of all ages, albeit of a kind gaining more and more currency these days.
Country: US/GB/SA/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Pete Travis
Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
In a megalopolis of the future, law enforcement officers are known as judges, and have the power to execute sentence on the spot. One such is given a rookie to assess who has special psychic gifts, and on investigating a triple homicide in a crime-infested tower block they are locked in and hunted down by the presiding drug queen.
Review:
This second attempt at the Judge Dredd comics achieves the appropriate tone: its antihero remains masked throughout, the grungy aesthetic and graphic violence all but evoke images from graphic novel frames. Seek not after beauty or redemption herein, but this is sharp-eyed, sardonic entertainment for adolescent boys of all ages, albeit of a kind gaining more and more currency these days.
Country: US/GB/SA/IND
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Pete Travis
Cast: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
Synopsis:
In a megalopolis of the future, law enforcement officers are known as judges, and have the power to execute sentence on the spot. One such is given a rookie to assess who has special psychic gifts, and on investigating a triple homicide in a crime-infested tower block they are locked in and hunted down by the presiding drug queen.
Review:
This second attempt at the Judge Dredd comics achieves the appropriate tone: its antihero remains masked throughout, the grungy aesthetic and graphic violence all but evoke images from graphic novel frames. Seek not after beauty or redemption herein, but this is sharp-eyed, sardonic entertainment for adolescent boys of all ages, albeit of a kind gaining more and more currency these days.