Dredd

"Judgement is coming."

2012 1h 36m EN

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6.9

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80%

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7.1

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★6.9TMDB · 5,756🍅80%Rotten Tomatoes●60Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 310,395

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Synopsis

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In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

“Judgement is coming.”

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Cast

Karl Urban
Judge Dredd
Olivia Thirlby
Cassandra Anderson
Lena Headey
Ma-Ma
Wood Harris
Kay
Langley Kirkwood
Judge Lex
Tamer Burjaq
Ma-Ma Bodyguard
Joe Vaz
Big Joe
Rakie Ayola
Chief Judge

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Pete Travis
Writers: Alex Garland
Languages: English
Countries: South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, India

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Earned back only 82% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 4 countries: South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, India.

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5 / 8

CAST

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208+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Pete Travis, shot by Anthony Dod Mantle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Paul Leonard-Morgan. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Mark Eckersley shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Pete Travis directs. Anthony Dod Mantle behind the camera. Paul Leonard-Morgan scores. Mark Eckersley cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, India. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $50M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Earned back only 82% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 14 years ago.
4International production across 4 countries: South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, India.
5208+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Pete Travis, shot by Anthony Dod Mantle. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Paul Leonard-Morgan. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Mark Eckersley shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby and Lena Headey carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Judgement is coming.".
11IMDB entry: tt1343727 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 18 themes, including "metropolis", "corruption", "police", "judge".

The technical file

Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle
Original score: Paul Leonard-Morgan
Editing: Mark Eckersley
Production design: Mark Digby
Costume design: Michael O'Connor
Makeup / hair: Francesca Van Der Feyst
VFX supervisor: Jon Thum
Sound: Glenn Freemantle
Stunt coordinator: Kerry Gregg
Runtime: 96 min · 1h 36m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $50,000,000
Box office: $41,037,742
Return: 82% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Dredd (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes: 80% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 60/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 310,395 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 wins & 14 nominations total

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What people are saying

ropesip2012-12-27
I like this movie more than the one with Silvester Stallone. Nice slowmotion shots and a good story for an action movie.
GeekMasher2013-01-07
★ 9/10
This film blow me away! I was not expecting this, a cop (a judge) based in the future with high violent's and great characters. You will think you will hate Dredd but you wont.
Dark Jedi2013-02-16
★ 7/10
I think this adaptation of the Judge Dredd comics books are a much more how most people probably would expect that a Judge Dredd movie should be, especially compared to the rather disappointing 1995 version. That of course means that the movie is quite violent. Anyone who has ever read the comics should not be surprised about the fact that this movie is mostly about taking out the bad guys, and if you cannot take out the bad guys using violence then just use more violence. Except for a few gripes that I will come to I quite liked this movie. The plot is a fairly simple one but it is also a plot that I would not have been surprised to find in one of the 2000 AD comics. It is a quite suitable plot for a Judge Dredd movie. The plot centres around the drug “Slo-Mo” which slows down your perception of time. This of course gave the director carte blanche to use extreme slow motion effects which could have been quite annoying if overdone. I think it is used quite well in this movie though. I especially liked the effects on the people standing behind the door that Dredd blew in at the beginning of the movie. Judge Dredd himself is well played by Karl Urban and, thankfully, he does not remove the helmet in this movie. I’m sure it was done to satisfy Stallone’s ego in the 1995 movie and it was one of the things that ruined it. Judge Dredd is not supposed to remove his helmet, period. “Ma-Ma” is also a quite okay bad guy for this movie. Sufficiently psychopathic yet intelligent and rational enough to make a believable, at least as believable as a Judge Dredd villain can be, adversary to Dredd. I have a few gripes about the movie though. My main gripe is that it is not the ultra-modern city from the comics, at least from the comics that I have read since I have not read them all. It is more of a bunch of mega-scrapers spread out among the city slum that is left from today and still looks very non-futuristic. The initial chase scene is done using an old Volkswagen van for Christ sake. I really did not like that and, as far as I am concerned, it lost a star for that. If I remember the comics correctly MegaCity One was built more or less on top of the old ruins. Another thing that I did not like was the crooked judges. Ii is possible that they used the concept of a bad judge in some of the comics, I do not remember, but I still did not like it. The judges are supposed to be above “ordinary people”. I am sure that they could have come up with some other plot element than that. Anyway, the bottom line is that I quite enjoyed the movie. The fact that the DTS-HD Master Audio sound on my Blu-ray copy was excellent did add to the enjoyment of course. The surround and LFE effects was quite powerful yet balanced so they did not cause my somewhat weak subwoofer to go into resonance. Very enjoyable movie evening indeed.