Dredd
This reboot, with Karl Urban putting on the helmet, is a vast improvement over the embarrassing Sylvester Stallone effort. Urban plays the title character, a generally angry man living in a post-apocalyptic world where policemen are also the judges, jurors and executioners of criminals on the spot. When he and a trainee (Olivia Thirbly) investigate a homicide, they wind up trapped in a building with a crazed drug lord (Lena Headey) trying to take them down. Director Pete Travis has made a grim, violent film. Because the drug in play here is something called SLO-MO, a substance that makes the brain feel as if it has been slowed down, much of the violence is depicted in slow motion. It’s a visual feast for the eyes, and Urban is perfect in the part.
By Bob Grimm
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Credits
Director:
- Pete Travis
Cast:
- Karl Urban
- Olivia Thirlby
- Lena Headey
- Wood Harris
- Langley Kirkwood
- Junior Singo
- Luke Tyler
- Jason Cope
- Domhnall Gleeson
- Warrick Grier
Producers:
- Andrew Macdonald
- Allon Reich
- Alex Garland
- Jason Kingsley
- Chris Kingsley
- Deepak Nayar
- Stuart Ford
- Adi Shankar
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