On a quest to prove that my instincts may be well trusted, I found myself waiting patiently in line for my Dredd 3D movie ticket. The promotion for the movie proves amorphous, perhaps one of the weakest structured trailers of the year, but I've felt it in my bones that we are in for a good show. And luckily, I was right. The pic proves that sticking with the material will have to lead you somewhere, unlike the original 1995 starring Sylvester Stallone, which drifted away from the comics and seemingly intends to do what's worse. I don't know, perhaps making a law for itself? ["LAAAAAWWWW!" *those who have watched the Stallone film will get my pun intention].
After re-watching the original version and the current Karl Urban (Star Trek) one, smirk was what produced to see the difference between the two. The original was pretentious, and the retread's goal was to make a good comic book sci-fi. In it, we follow Urban playing Judge Dredd, one of the "judges" of one of the districts of the future dystopian Earth. "Judges" are policemen who are given constitutional rights to verdict on a crime on-site. Him and a judge rookie (Olivia Thirlby) were locked down in a high rise apartment building while on a mission to track and raid the production of a reality-altering narcotic, Slo-Mo.
Urban takes short fare to get to that testosterone level that will be utterly satisfying to many action aficionados. Thirlby's features add to the softness that help orchestrate her character. Lena Headey, however playing Ma-Ma, the chief thug in the building, feels less than involved with opportunities that could have shone the light to her.
Pete Travis is a filmmaker who is reliant with experience. One of the few projects of his was Vantage Point, an interesting film about the President of America's assassination told in perspectives of different individuals. Point required skills and while Travis evidently struggled with it, the experience had him lifted to different heights as he now tells the story in Dredd 3D. Albeit there's nothing spectacular about Dredd's storytelling that one can commend, it's the rare type that you want majority of the movies possess. Besides its violence very much graphic violence and inventive action, the pic is also bolstered with glorious visuals constantly displaying stunning slow motion sequences.
Dredd 3D is in all the right places. But given all its rights, it's still one hell of an experience. B+
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