Dredd Reviews
Badass Digest
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.
Lyles' Movie Files
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.
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| Original Score: 8.5/10
The Standard
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Concrete Playground
Visually stunning with video game violence, this is Hollywood's answer to The Raid.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Deadspin
If Hollywood is going to be indicted for making mindlessly violent action films, let them at least be as good as this one.
Movie Talk
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.
Movie Chambers
"Dredd" is non-stop action plus excellent 3D effects peppering an above-average story.
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| Original Score: B+
Sci-Fi Movie Page
The judges are portrayed pretty uncompromisingly unlike the Stallone flick which tried to tone down the whole Fascist Police State thing.
Cinema Crazed
A very entertaining and blood soaked action science fiction flick...
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin American-Statesman
The stunningly violent Dredd 3D strips out pretense of satire, a crucial element of the British comic.
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| Original Score: C
Boston Phoenix
Erase your memories of Sly's bomb with this, director Pete Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland's lean reboot.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Slant Magazine
Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen.
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| Original Score: 3/4
ABC Radio (Australia)
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Popcorn Junkie
All gunplay and no guts ... unless you count the brain matter smeared across most of the film.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Daily Star
Grim, stylish, relentlessly violent - this is the balls-to-the-wall Dredd movie fans have been waiting for.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Aristocrat
...Dredd is one of the year's purest, most gratifying genre films.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Quickflix
Never too ambitious in its storytelling, but consistently impressive in execution, Dredd is an outlier in the vast wasteland of Hollywood's overproduction-line.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Sunday Age
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
FILMINK (Australia)
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.
