Dredd (2012)

	Directed by: Pete Travis	COUNTRY UK/South Africa GENRE Science Fiction/Action NORWEGIAN TITLE Dredd RUNNING TIME 95 minutes
	Produced by: Alex Garland Andrew MacDonald Allon Reich
	Written by (based on Judge Dredd by Wagner/Ezquerra) Alex Garland

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Judge Dredd	Karl Urban
Judge Cassandra Anderson	Olivia Thirlby	½
Ma-Ma	Lena Headey
Kay	Wood Harris

Review

Clever, exhilarating sci-fi action based on Wagner/Exquerra's Judge Dredd character and set in a dystopian near-future where a sadistic drug lord called Ma-Ma operates out of her 200-storey, high-security apartment block, filled with both criminals and ordinary families. Although camouflaged and marketed as a regular action movie, Dredd has more on offer than what at first meets the eye. As directed by Pete Travis and written by Alex Garland, the film combines crisp, hard-hitting action with interesting observations on more than one level, and the result is a film that works both when you watch it and holds up afterwards, despite the fact that Garland is far from reinventing the wheel here, let alone the dystopian sci-fi genre. Karl Urban gives a crudely effective performance in the title role, seemingly inspired by Christian Bale's Batman.