Dredd 3D is the sci-fi action movie was released in 2012, which directed by British directors Pete Travis.
As you know that the original movie called "Judge Dredd" have already came out in 1995, which received negative reviews from the critics, stated the original movie has cheesy dialogue, goofy action flick and poor balanced of story development has destroyed the fans reputation to enjoy the films based on classy British comic books.
So back in 2012, there was a reboot called "Dredd 3D", which meant to be more serious sci-fi action film with extreme shootouts, amazing special effects with intense slow-mo and darker storyplot to keep the movie look stand out, so this is how the dredd movies should be like this.
My reaction to this movie is quite really amazed me that the movie just got it right where it should be.
The movie takes place at United States in future years, the story is about Judge Dredd (played by Karl Urban) and his partner Cassandra Anderson (Played by Olivia Thirlby) has the mission to investigate at tower block in Peach Trees to take on drug lord Madeline Madrigal, A.K.A Ma-Ma (Played by Lena Headey) order hers groups of thugs to take down the two judges.
I like how the story works in the movie because the storyplot is sounds familiar, like the indonesian action films "The Raid Redemption", where they have to take on the group of thugs from defending the drug lord, so this what the Dredd 3D movie is sounds too similar, which is sounds pretty cool for the sci-fi action movies like this.
The Actors/Actress did a great job on the characters choices. I find Karl Urban is well suitable for his character role than the Sylvester Stallone from the original 1995 movie. Dredd is suppose to be more serious and ruthless character, which pretty more standout on this movie rather than being cheesy and corny character from the original 1995 movie with having ridiculous dialogue and quotes. Olivia Thirlby did amazing job on her character that she plays. It's one of the decent Actress that makes her character role sounds more interesting with great plot and interesting character concept is worked very well in the movie, which you don't want to see a annoying supporting characters, like Rob Schneider's character from the original 1995 movie, it's about having better characters in the reboot version to keep the movie more simple and straightforward.
Lena Headey's character role is sounds pretty much interesting with darker tone and it's quite similar to Ray Sahetapy's character Tama Riyadi from the Indonesian action movie "The Raid Redemption" because of Dredd 3D shares the similar plot and atmospheres.
What I like about the movie is the level of the violence with blood splatting and gruesome gore effects to make the action scenes look awesome as hell because of the shootout scenes did a fantastic job on the movie, especially I really like the special effects of bullet time, where the bad guys gets head blowned with Dredd's handgun during the slow motion is seems doing a good job, but I think the bullet time is bit overdone for visual effects and limited timing of slow motion, but still great to use 3D glasses on HDTV with nice 3D backgrounds and some layout environment is worth to watch.
I like the sound atmospheres with background noises and cracking sound effects are perfect with home cinema speakers started to vibrating and it is one of the best sound work ever in the movie.
The special features has sort of behind the scenes video, like Dredd: 2000 AD, Slo-Mo, Welcome to Peachtrees, The 3rd dimension, Dredd's gear and Interviews with Cast and Crew are interesting to watch it about the Dredd movies.
Advantages
Great story and characters
Brilliant special effects for 3D movies
Bloody violence makes action scenes look good
Best soundwork in the movie
Decent actors/actress performances
Disadvantages
Bit overdone visual effects
Limited slow-mo time
Sometimes 3D glasses can strained eyes too
Final Verdict
The bottom line is...
Story and characters 8.5/10 - Great story and characters makes the movie plot sounds even better.
Atmosphere 9/10 - Superb actions scenes and awesome blood and gore effects.
Music and sounds 8/10 - Fantastic sound atmospheres with background noises and cracking sound effects makes the best soundwork in the movie.
Special Features 8/10 - It has sort of behind the scenes video, like Dredd: 2000 AD, Slo-Mo, Welcome to Peachtrees, The 3rd dimension, Dredd's gear and Interviews with Cast and Crew are interesting to watch it.
Overall 8.5/10 - I say the Dredd 3D is by far one of the best Dredd's movies so far and it's offers a tons of more improvements over the original 1995 movie. Pete Travis did a wonderful job on this movie to keep it more entertaining and pleases to Dredd's fans is worth to watch. I recommended you to get this and it will never disappoint you to see how good the reboot movie is and see why is it better than the crappy original 1995 movie.
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