Dredd
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In a violent, futuristic metropolis, a law enforcement and his rookie trainee become caught up in a high-stakes drug war.
- XDragoking30 April 2025Ok so full disclosure, part of me REALLY liked the Stallone one more and I know that’s probably a sin, but I ranked this one higher on a lot of technical and action levels. The action was crisp, the writing was very good at times yet standard for the genre at others, it both felt like the perfect Dredd movie yet not a Dredd movie at all and I actually loved that. Karl Urban was fantastic in his role and Olivia Thirlby played a great companion to it. Urban brought character to a guy who really doesn’t have one and that’s extremely commendable work, with Wood Harris and Lena Headey as great baddies. It was a fun, action packed and very well shot film and a really nice change of pace for a comic book film to play out more like a thriller than an adventure.
- Richard19 October 2025Saw this one in the cinema when it came out and it hit like a sledgehammer. Gritty, stylish, and brutally efficient. It was everything a Judge Dredd movie should be and yet somehow… it didn’t become the hit it deserved. Karl Urban never takes off the helmet, never cracks a smile and never misses a beat. He is Dredd, cold, hard edged and utterly believable. Olivia Thirlby plays rookie Anderson with just the right mix of vulnerability and psychic punch and Lena Headey’s Ma-Ma is pure menace wrapped in scar tissue. The story is tight: one building, one drug lord, one long climb to justice. It’s Die Hard meets Robocop, dipped in slow motion gore and neon grime. The Slo-Mo drug sequences are hypnotic, the action is crisp and the production design makes Mega-City One feel lived in and rotting. It’s a shame this didn’t get a sequel. Poor marketing buried it, but the film itself? A masterclass in lean, mean sci-fi storytelling. Or maybe people didn’t go see it because they still remembered the 1995 version, Stallone shouting “I am the law!” while the tone veered wildly between camp and confusion. But this one? It got the tone right. I loved the visuals, the pacing and the unapologetic brutality. It felt like a comic book adaptation that actually understood its source, no winks, no fluff, just law.
- Jakeys26 December 2025Super fun movie, and Karl Urban kills in it, figuratively and literally. Great soundtrack too, but the 3D effects aged badly. I would say as well, Olivia Thirlby is solid, Lena Headey hams it up a bit but is decent, but Wood Harris (had to Google him) put in a very lazy and unconvincing performance. It's also thin on plot, but then it doesn't really need one. Go in and stop the bad guys, it's just another day for the Judge.
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Dredd was released on 7 September 2012.
Dredd was directed by Pete Travis.
Dredd has a runtime of 1h 35m.
Dredd was produced by Allon Reich, Andrew Macdonald, Alex Garland, Jason Kingsley, Chris Kingsley.
In a violent, futuristic metropolis, a law enforcement and his rookie trainee become caught up in a high-stakes drug war.
The key characters in Dredd are Judge Dredd (Karl Urban), Cassandra Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).
Dredd is rated 18.
Dredd is an Action, Science Fiction, Crime film.
Dredd has an audience rating of 7.3 out of 10.
Dredd had a budget of US$50M.
Dredd has made US$41M at the box office.