Dredd (2012)

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

Director:

Pete Travis

Writers:

John Wagner (characters), Carlos Ezquerra (characters),

Stars:

Karl Urban, Rachel Wood, Olivia Thirlby

2 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Karl Urban	...	Judge Dredd
Rachel Wood	...	Control Operator 1
Andile Mngadi	...	Passenger
Porteus Xandau	...	Driver
Jason Cope	...	Zwirner
Emma Breschi	...	Hostage
Olivia Thirlby	...	Anderson
Rakie Ayola	...	Chief Judge
Lena Headey	...	Ma-Ma
Tamer Burjaq	...	Ma-Ma Bodyguard
Warrick Grier	...	Caleb
Wood Harris	...	Kay
Shoki Mokgapa	...	Woman with Child
Yohan Chun	...	Girl in Window
Eden Knowles	...	Girl in Window

Storyline

The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One - a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed. During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a 200 storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's ...

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Plot Keywords:

judge | drugs | jury | rookie | executioner | 

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Taglines:

Judgment is coming

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, language, drug use and some sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

UK USA India South Africa

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 September 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dredd 3D

Filming Locations:

Cape Town Film Studios, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Box Office

Budget:

$35,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$6,278,491 (USA) (21 September 2012)

Gross:

$13,401,683 (USA) (26 October 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

DNA Films, IM Global, Peach Trees

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color (3D Stereoscopic)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There are several references to "fatties" from the comic book (group of extremely obese people, many so obese they require a wheel under their stomach to move) - the first shooting victim of the escaping car chase occupant was a "fattie" lying next to his stomach wheel, there is also graffiti on the first shots of the skate ramp reads "Fatties rule!" and a cut to an extremely obese man during lock-down with a shirt with "fatties" on the front.

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Goofs

Near the end of the movie, when the blast door opens, Dredd and Anderson are standing side by side waiting. Seen from the front, Anderson is holding an assault rifle, and Dredd isn't holding any weapon. Then in the next shot, seen from the rear, Anderson is still holding a rifle, but Dredd is now holding a pistol.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Judge Dredd: America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting ...

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Connections

Featured in The Angry Joe Show: Dredd 3D (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Jubilee (Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around)"
Written by Bobby Womack, IIarold Payne, Damon Albarn and Richard Russell
Published by ABKCO Music, Inc. (BMI),
Chrysalis Music ltd, Copyright Control
Performed by Bobby Womack
licensed courtesy of XL Recordings ltd.
By arrangement with Beggars Croup Media ltd.
® 2012 XL Recordings ltd.

User Reviews

Karl Urban IS Dredd.

I've been a Dredd fan for thirty years now, but I'm not about to give this movie adaptation of my favourite comic character a ridiculously high rating purely from some misguided sense of loyalty. Instead, I'm going to give it a deservingly high score because, quite simply, it is a very good film, one that successfully captures the essence of the 2000AD strip, delivering brutal action by the bucket-load, excellent central performances, and inspired direction, all enhanced by breathtaking state-of-the-art 3D special effects.

After the debacle that was Stallone's Judge Dredd (1995), the makers of this movie have clearly made their prime directive to please hardcore Dredd fans, and it shows: the screenplay, by Alex Garland, remains very faithful to the spirit of the comic, and in Karl Urban, we now have the perfect Dredd—all raspy voice and humourless grimace, it looks as though the character has jumped straight onto the screen from the pages of 2000AD (helmet intact). Similarly, it would be hard to imagine anyone more suitable than Olivia Thirlby as rookie Psi-Judge Anderson (and believe me, I've tried!).

Is Dredd 3D my 'ideal' Dredd movie? Not quite... made for a comparatively meagre budget of $45million, it would be hard pushed to live up to my impossibly high expectations (just realising the Mega-City One of my dreams would require way more money than it cost to make this entire film). That said, it is definitely a massive step in the right direction, and if it is the financial success that it genuinely deserves to be, who knows what treats await us in the future: The Cursed Earth, Judge Cal, Judge Death, The Apocalypse War.... I'm salivating like a Klegg just thinking about it.