Throughout the film, there are numerous examples of the use of a street drug called Slo-Mo that alters the user's perception of time to make it pass at 1% of the normal rate.
The thing is, it's way more than a clone-in-spirit, thanks to the creativity of director Pete Travis and his team. Once they start blasting their way through Ma-Ma's army, there's a sense of deja vu, harkening back to The Raid, but if all you could say about this movie is it's an homage to that martial arts blow-out with more guns and less hand-to-hand, it wouldn't be so bad, because whatever The Raid did well, Dredd does better. Unfortunately for her, their beat for Anderson's big day brings them to The Peach Trees, a 200-story slum controlled by Ma-Ma (Lena Headey), a drug-dealing psychopath, and when they take one of her men in for questioning, the two judges end up as targets, trapped in the building and fighting for their lives. On this shift, he's not only out to protect and serve, he's also giving a final exam to potential judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), who has to prove herself worthy of the job. Expectations were probably a bit low, so when Karl Urban, his face properly obscured, exploded onto screens as the law, fans (and critics) were pleasantly surprised.ĭredd is a judge in a post-apocalyptic America, which means he acts as the police, the jury, the judge and the executioner, handing out sentences on the spot in an effort to curtail this harsh reality's never-ending crime. That it followed after the universally-panned (and Rob Schneider co-starring) 1995 film version of the character, featuring Sylvester Stallone frequently sans the character's traditionally-omnipresent helmet, made it even more important to fans of Judge Dredd worldwide. Technically, you shouldn't be cheering for a remorseless killing machine, but that's exactly what you would do, because a) the ends justified the means, and b) they were pretty awesome in laying down the law.ĭredd is a glossier update on that genre, as it's essentially a man-on-a-mission story taken to the relatively-near future, though it features England's most iconic comic book legend, so that raises the stakes a bit. And even if they weren't the best-constructed films (often looking as low-budget as they truly were) they were often perversely enjoyable, as the bad-asses who fought for what was right did pretty much everything the wrong way, taking down everything that stood in their path.
Heck, Steven Segal starred in a film actually titled Out for Justice. Likes: Judge Dredd, Karl Urban, '80s-style quests for justiceīack in the late '80s/early '90s, when watching HBO, it seemed like you were never far from an action movie about someone looking to dish out some justice.
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