Dredd is a remake of the Sylvester Stallone movie in 1995, which was based on a British Sci-Fi comic book where future police become the judge and jury.
Part of this story’s shtick is that Judge Dredd never takes off his helmet. So we never see the hero’s face, not once. I’m not even sure we should call Dredd the hero, as he’s kind of an ass. Perhaps he’s better classified as the lead. It’s hard enough in many cookie cutter films these days to care about the leads, but to cover his face for the entire movie makes this stinker even more boring than it would be otherwise. And what’s worse is the guy in the helmet is hot, it’s Karl Urban, but you’ll never know he’s hot, cause he’s wearing an abundance of fake armour and the comic book goofy helmet the whole time. But they leave the helmet off the female co-lead with some bad excuse she lost it. And on top of that, she is one absolutely horrible actress. She needs a permanent helmet on her acting career, so we can’t see it.
If you don’t fall a sleep from the boring predictable action or the drone of Dredd’s “Batman voice”, or annoyed by the endless slow motion scenes intended to show off the 3D effects, you’ll be glad when this movie is finally over.
4/10
