Particle
Shock
Recent Posts
  • Housekeeping
  • She Who Became The Sun
  • Altered Carbon is a gritty, post-cyberpunk Netflix series.
  • Star Trek Discovery: worth paying for CBS All Access?
  • Alien Covenant was a confusing disappointment
Categories
  • Awesomely Bad
  • Books
  • Miscellaneous
  • Movies
  • Television
Particle
Shock
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Movies

Dredd: Karl Urban is the law

  • 20 October 2012
  • Particleshock Actual
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0

I thought there were more hard-core Judge Dredd fans out there who would flock to any film adaptation; no matter how flawed, as long as Sylvester Stallone was not involved. But I was wrong. Dredd 3D seems to have come and gone with little fanfare. I can’t believe I just said fanfare.

Dredd 3D was awesome. Yes, it was still a departure from the 2000 A.D. Comics. That shouldn’t stop you from giving it a chance. It’s a fun movie even if it’s not a literal translation. Sometimes what works in print just doesn’t translate to the screen. For example costume and wardrobe design was really good this time around. The Judges’ gear looked more like a S.W.A.T team’s kit and less like the often outlandish gear depicted in the comics. If the film were 100% true to the comic we would be right back to leotards, giant shoulder guard eagles, and possibly even thigh-high bright green boots. That’s not very far from the Sylvester Stallone “Judge Dredd”.

Karl Urban delivered a very dry and almost soulless Judge Dredd which is expected but perhaps overdone to comedic result. Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) offers a different take on Psi-Judge Anderson but it works on some kind of “girl interrupted” level. All I can say about Ma-Ma is that Lena Headey should play a villain more often because her go as Sarah Connor was a fail.

What Dredd 3D really lacked was any meaningful context for the insanity of life in the Mega-City 1 (not to mention what’s left of the rest of the wold). Maybe a more colorful view of the post apocalyptic world would have interested more fans. On a positive note, this leaves a massive amount of material for a sequel, if the meager box office returns from this film can entice the studio to make another one.

Do yourself a favor: when Dredd comes to Blu-Ray, DVD, Netflix or Amazon Instant Video (That’s how I roll) check it out. It’s a good time shoot-em-up with tons of action.

Total
0
Shares
Share 0
Tweet 0
Pin it 0
Particleshock Actual

Previous Article
  • Television

ABC’s search for Dr. Emmet Cole ends on The River.

  • 9 March 2012
  • Particleshock Actual
View Post
Next Article
  • Movies

Yul Brynner is a killer robot gunslinger in 1973’s Westworld

  • 20 October 2012
  • Particleshock Actual
View Post
You May Also Like
View Post
  • Movies

Alien Covenant was a confusing disappointment

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 16 September 2017
View Post
  • Movies

What Happened to Monday? Ask Noomi Rapace

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 29 August 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Kill Command: autonomous war robots are a bad idea

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 5 March 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Children of Men: Clive Owen delivers the future

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 17 February 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Monsters: Whitney Able isn’t afraid

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 15 January 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets.

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 13 January 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Blood Wars: The Underworld franchise needs a transfusion

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 9 January 2017
View Post
  • Movies

Resident Evil: The final Chapter

  • Particleshock Actual
  • 2 January 2017

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Particle
Shock
Rockets, Robots, and Rayguns

Input your search keywords and press Enter.