Dredd Movie Reviews

While 'Dredd 3D' may not be one for the faint of heart and weak of gut, it certainly provides an adrenaline rush for folks seeking thrills at the movies. Bombastic and beautifully shot, the movie's over-the-top moments (and there are a few) are easily forgiven, as 'Dredd' aims to solely entertain and mostly hits bullseye. Nuclear war has laid most of the world to waste and the survivors now live in a large, enclosed city in North America

The first ghastly Dredd film starred Sylvester Stallone and, contrary to popular belief, this wasn't what made it a bad film. Stallone, in fact, was a great choice for the character, a mostly unsmiling futuristic law enforcer with an immediately recognisable mouth. The problem was that the film's makers, with absolutely no regard for the British comic book character found in issues of 2000 AD, wanted to keep showing that they had indeed cast Stallone

"JUSTICE system is like a meat grinder. You go in human and meat comes out the other end." The best thing that can be said about that line is that it almost fits Dredd -- in goes dread, out comes dreadful. The second best is that the film gets over soon after. Based on the comic book character Judge Dredd, 'Dredd 3D' borrows more unapologetically from a recent Indonesian film, The Raid: Redemption, about ridding an apartment complex of its psycopathic ganglord

"JUSTICE system is like a meat grinder. You go in human and meat comes out the other end." The best thing that can be said about that line is that it almost fits Dredd -- in goes dread, out comes dreadful. The second best is that the film gets over soon after. Based on the comic book character Judge Dredd, 'Dredd 3D' borrows more unapologetically from a recent Indonesian film, The Raid: Redemption, about ridding an apartment complex of its psycopathic ganglord

The year is 2011. In a tower block in Jakarta’s slums, drug lord Tama Riyada is carefully sheltered among the top floors of the seemingly-endless building, filled with his armed, drug-addicted henchmen, ready to lay down their lives at his word. One fine morning, a 20-man SWAT team led by Sergeant Jaka and Lieutenant Wahyu enters the premises of the building, with the aim of taking Riyada down. They are accompanied by rookie officer Rama