Dredd (2012)

All Critics (147) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (118) | Rotten (32) | DVD (3)

While not for the squeamish, Dredd 3D is an effectively gritty B movie accentuated by stylish visuals and irreverent humor.

September 21, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

We have seen this future. And not only does it not work - it no longer even surprises.

September 21, 2012 Full Review | Comments (18)

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

Proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing.

September 21, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Frank Lovece

Newsday

Top Critic

My notes are as follows: "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy."

September 21, 2012 Full Review | Comments (34)

Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.

September 21, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Sean O'Connell

Washington Post

Top Critic

Smartly cast and with a sharp team behind the scenes, there is no good reason why "Dredd 3D" is such a clunk-headed action picture.

September 20, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

There's something to be said for DREDD's not taking itself too seriously, and if you do the same, you'll have a ball watching it.

April 3, 2013 Full Review

Meredith Borders

Badass Digest

A tremendously entertaining film that consistently pushes the limits of 3D creativity in a way to seem like the images are leaping straight from the comic book panels.

March 22, 2013 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Dredd is like a gun - not everyone likes them and they're only good for one thing, but they do that one thing really, really well.

March 19, 2013 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Visually stunning with video game violence, this is Hollywood's answer to The Raid.

March 3, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

If Hollywood is going to be indicted for making mindlessly violent action films, let them at least be as good as this one.

February 12, 2013 Full Review

Tim Grierson

Deadspin

Lean, mean and luridly violent, sci-fi action thriller Dredd does a much better job of bringing cult comic-book anti-hero Judge Dredd to the screen than the misfiring 1995 Sylvester Stallone version.

January 29, 2013 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

Pulls off the near-impossible, somehow balancing fanboy nods to the comic with the conventions of a mainstream cops-against-the-odds buddy drama.

January 23, 2013 Full Review

Dave Bradley

SFX Magazine

"Dredd" is non-stop action plus excellent 3D effects peppering an above-average story.

January 22, 2013 Full Review

Paul Chambers

Movie Chambers

The judges are portrayed pretty uncompromisingly unlike the Stallone flick which tried to tone down the whole Fascist Police State thing.

January 14, 2013 Full Review

James O'Ehley

Sci-Fi Movie Page

Pete Travis' Dredd is a blood-soaked beauty that uses the 3D element perfectly

January 13, 2013 Full Review

Jeremy Lebens

We Got This Covered

A very entertaining and blood soaked action science fiction flick...

January 9, 2013 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

The stunningly violent Dredd 3D strips out pretense of satire, a crucial element of the British comic.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Joe Gross

Austin American-Statesman

Erase your memories of Sly's bomb with this, director Pete Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland's lean reboot.

January 8, 2013 Full Review

Brett Michel

Boston Phoenix

The action is crisp and entrancing, while the dialogue is as good as you could hope for in something like this, stopping short of embarrassing the actors.

January 6, 2013 Full Review

Phil Villarreal

OK! Magazine

Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen.

December 30, 2012 Full Review

Calum Marsh

Slant Magazine

Tonally one-note, and that note is grim, nihilistic, super-stylized, violent and humorless. But it's a spectacular technical feat, hugely loyal to its source ... an extremely expensive arthouse action flick for the die-hard crowd.

December 4, 2012 Full Review

CJ Johnson

ABC Radio (Australia)

All gunplay and no guts ... unless you count the brain matter smeared across most of the film.

November 2, 2012 Full Review

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

Far from the mess of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version - in which they made the mistake of taking the character's helmet off - this all-new take on the no-nonsense comic book anti-hero is a tightly packed, trapped-in-a-building action blamfest.

November 2, 2012 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

Grim, stylish, relentlessly violent - this is the balls-to-the-wall Dredd movie fans have been waiting for.

October 30, 2012 Full Review

Andy Lea

Daily Star

...Dredd is one of the year's purest, most gratifying genre films.

October 27, 2012 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

• 1. Judge Dredd: America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges.
  – Submitted by joseph j (14 days ago)
• 1. Zwirner: Ma, He's back.
  – Submitted by Tricia M (21 days ago)
• 1. Kay: How the fuck are we gonna stop this guy?
  2. Ma-Ma: Call 911.
  – Submitted by caroban s (49 days ago)
• 1. Judge Dredd: Inhabitants of Peach Trees, this is Judge Dredd.
  2. Ma-Ma: Let him talk.
  3. Judge Dredd: In case you have forgotten, this block operates under the same rules as the rest of the city. Ma-Ma is not the law, I am the law. As for you, Ma-Ma, judgement time.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (3 months ago)
• 1. Judge Dredd: This isn't a negotiation.
  – Submitted by Charles L (4 months ago)
• 1. Judge Dredd: Ma-Ma is not the law. I'm the law.
  – Submitted by Arun C (4 months ago)