DREDD 3D: MOVIE REVIEW

DREDD 3D
Release Date: 7th September (UK)
Director: Pete Travis
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Starring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey
Screening Reviewed: London Press Screening

Reviewed by Henry Kelly

Having first appeared in the Science fiction comic 2000 AD as far back as 1977, Judge Dredd remains one of the greatest and most treasured of comic book icons. He is the faceless harbinger of justice who dispenses with bureaucracy and replaces it with menace. 

With the philosophy of justice as debatable as when the comics were first conceived, Dredd’s relevance is just as strong. The film resists the urge to answer to all the themes the comics raised and instead delivers a focussed action film that doesn't over reach itself and succeeds in bringing its source material out of the sabbatical forced by the failure of the Stallone-led first adaptation (Judge Dredd, 1995).