The original Judge Dredd film was okay, nothing amazing - Sylvester Stallone doing his best and Rob Schneider in the side kick role, with a few funny lines. The 1993 film had Judge Dredd, the most famous Judge, being convicted for a crime he didnt commit. The film was good fun when it came out and the sets were impressive at the time, very few graphic comic novel films existed, unlike the current trend of never ending comic hero films being churned out of Hollywood, it seems to have taken over the action film genre.
Dredd - The remake is great in one sense that at last they have realeased an 18 rated film for adults which is very rare these days. The profit hungry film industry tends to lean towards 12 rated, watered down films aimed at a younger film audience to boost sales. This is a shame as I feel it has damaged film making, the stories being told are not always to their full potential. Take the Terminator franchise for example - first film was a hard hitting 18 rated film for adults and ever since the first sequel they have been aimed at kids, thus loosing its original path, the story of a grim world with true violence.
Dredd - for once is reminiscent of those old school films like "Terminator", "Commando", "Predator", "Cobra" all very straight forward action films for an 18 rated adult audience. Not FOR KIDS !!
Adults need adult films as well, nothing wrong with this. The film itself is very straight forward with no surprises along the way, he is Judge Dredd and he will Judge! The 3D is pretty good it doesn't over do it and give that extra dimension, the film is dark and if you want lots of gun action, like those old school films, then this is good.
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