Dredd (2012)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 115 | Rotten: 32
Fueled by bombastic violence and impressive special effects, rooted in self-satire and deadpan humor, Dredd 3D is a rare example of a remake that actually works.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 9
Fueled by bombastic violence and impressive special effects, rooted in self-satire and deadpan humor, Dredd 3D is a rare example of a remake that actually works.
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Movie Info
The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One- a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd (Karl Urban) is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that
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Cast
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Karl Urban
Judge Dredd -
Olivia Thirlby
Cassandra Anderson -
Lena Headey
Ma-Ma -
Wood Harris
Kay -
Langley Kirkwood
Judge Lex -
Junior Singo
Amos, Anis -
Luke Tyler
Freel -
Jason Cope
Zwirner -
Domhnall Gleeson
Clan Techie -
Warrick Grier
Caleb -
Evan Rachel Wood
Control Operator 1 -
Adele Mngadi
Passenger -
Porteus Xandau
Driver -
Emma Breschi
Hostage -
Rakie Ayola
Chief Judge -
Tamer Burjaq
Ma-Ma Bodyguard -
Shoki Mokgapa
Woman with Child -
Yohan Chun
Girl in Window -
Eden Knowles
Girl in Window -
Desmond Lai Lan
Homeless Man -
Deobia Oparei
Paramedic TJ -
Patrick Lyster
Control Operator -
Travis Snyders
Slo-Mo Junkie -
Chad Phillips
Slo-Mo Junkie -
Joe Vaz
Big Joe -
Scott Sparrow
Japhet -
Marty Kintu
Big Joe Gang Member -
Nicole Bailey
Cathy -
Daniel Hadebe
Judge at Entrance -
Francis Chouler
Judge at Entrance -
Edwin Perry
Judge Alvarez -
Karl Thaning
Judge Chan -
Michele Levin
Judge Kaplan
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All Critics (147) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (32) | DVD (3)
While not for the squeamish, Dredd 3D is an effectively gritty B movie accentuated by stylish visuals and irreverent humor.
Top CriticWe have seen this future. And not only does it not work - it no longer even surprises.
Proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing.
My notes are as follows: "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy."
This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visually stunning with video game violence, this is Hollywood's answer to The Raid.
If Hollywood is going to be indicted for making mindlessly violent action films, let them at least be as good as this one.
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.
"Dredd" is non-stop action plus excellent 3D effects peppering an above-average story.
The judges are portrayed pretty uncompromisingly unlike the Stallone flick which tried to tone down the whole Fascist Police State thing.
A very entertaining and blood soaked action science fiction flick...
The stunningly violent Dredd 3D strips out pretense of satire, a crucial element of the British comic.
Erase your memories of Sly's bomb with this, director Pete Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland's lean reboot.
Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen.
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.
All gunplay and no guts ... unless you count the brain matter smeared across most of the film.
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.
Grim, stylish, relentlessly violent - this is the balls-to-the-wall Dredd movie fans have been waiting for.
...Dredd is one of the year's purest, most gratifying genre films.
Never too ambitious in its storytelling, but consistently impressive in execution, Dredd is an outlier in the vast wasteland of Hollywood's overproduction-line.
What Dredd lacks in satirical insight - a bizarre oversight, given its dystopian view of America's east coast - it makes up for in sheer brute force and meat-head violence.
Dredd not only succeeds as a brilliantly accurate adaptation of the decades-old comic book character, it's also an absolutely blistering and exciting dystopian action movie.
Audience Reviews for Dredd
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- 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.
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- Zwirner: Ma, He's back.
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- Kay: How the fuck are we gonna stop this guy?
- Ma-Ma: Call 911.
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- Judge Dredd: Inhabitants of Peach Trees, this is Judge Dredd.
- Ma-Ma: Let him talk.
- 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.
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- Judge Dredd: This isn't a negotiation.
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- Judge Dredd: Ma-Ma is not the law. I'm the law.
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