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This movie works very well as a straight action movie. Dredd is a tough badass, and totally redeems the awful Stallone performance. He is paired with the rookie Cassandra Anderson, and in many ways Anderson is the true star of the movie, as she is given some actual character development whilst Dredd is just a faceless tough guy (just as in the comics). The Slo-Mo sequences are arguably the movie's most memorable scenes (and probably the only thing this movie will be remembered for 5 years from now). I'd never thought a movie could make gore look beautiful. We see a person's face explode in a bloody mess in slow motion with vivid colors, and it's glorious. My disappointment with this film is that it's a very formulaic action movie that you've probably seen plenty of times: two cops are trapped in a building full of bad guys and they have to shoot and shoot and shoot until there are no more bad guys, at which point the movie quickly ends. If you've seen Die Hard and Under Siege, you've seen Dredd. It's rather humorless and has very little satire, whereas the comic book beats you over the head with its satire and wants to make you laugh. You don't see much of Dredd behaving in a way that is distinctly Dredd. You could replace Dredd with almost any other action movie hero and the film would more or less work. Thank God we at least have Psi Judge Anderson, whose telepathy provides the only significant sci-fi weirdness in the movie. The visual aesthetic might also displease fans. Whereas Mega-City 1 in the comics is a fantastic sci-fi landscape of bizarre architecture, weird fashions, robot servants, suicide booths, and cybernetics enthusiasts, the MC1 of this movie looks too much like the present day. The skyline of MC1 is striking-regularly spaced tower blocks rising out of a sea of smaller buildings-but go down to street level and it's Johannesburg with no futuristic elements. Alex Garland has given us a good action movie, but it's still not the definitive Dredd movie fans have been waiting for. 3/5 Baron Bifford fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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