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While not for the squeamish, Dredd 3D is an effectively gritty B movie accentuated by stylish visuals and irreverent humor.
We have seen this future. And not only does it not work - it no longer even surprises.
Proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing.
My notes are as follows: "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy." "Shoot bad guy."
This, finally, is the Dredd movie comic book readers have been anticipating.
Smartly cast and with a sharp team behind the scenes, there is no good reason why "Dredd 3D" is such a clunk-headed action picture.
Visually stunning with video game violence, this is Hollywood's answer to The Raid.
If Hollywood is going to be indicted for making mindlessly violent action films, let them at least be as good as this one.
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.
Pulls off the near-impossible, somehow balancing fanboy nods to the comic with the conventions of a mainstream cops-against-the-odds buddy drama.
"Dredd" is non-stop action plus excellent 3D effects peppering an above-average story.
The judges are portrayed pretty uncompromisingly unlike the Stallone flick which tried to tone down the whole Fascist Police State thing.
Pete Travis' Dredd is a blood-soaked beauty that uses the 3D element perfectly
A very entertaining and blood soaked action science fiction flick...
The stunningly violent Dredd 3D strips out pretense of satire, a crucial element of the British comic.
Erase your memories of Sly's bomb with this, director Pete Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland's lean reboot.
The action is crisp and entrancing, while the dialogue is as good as you could hope for in something like this, stopping short of embarrassing the actors.
Whether by design or otherwise, Dredd seems better-suited to a 2D home video presentation than to the 3D silver screen.
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.
All gunplay and no guts ... unless you count the brain matter smeared across most of the film.
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.
Grim, stylish, relentlessly violent - this is the balls-to-the-wall Dredd movie fans have been waiting for.
...Dredd is one of the year's purest, most gratifying genre films.
Never too ambitious in its storytelling, but consistently impressive in execution, Dredd is an outlier in the vast wasteland of Hollywood's overproduction-line.
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.
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.
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