Some may remember a terrible science-fiction film with Sylvester Stallone as Judge Dredd, a cop with high-tech lethal weaponry who acts as police, jury and executioner in a dystopian world of the future. The story was based on a British comic book.
Dredd 3D is an attempt to pay homage to the original source and erase the bad memories of the Stallone mess. Starring Karl Urban (whose face is almost completely obscured by his helmet and opaque visor), the film worked in its own limited way.
A drug lord based in a 200-storey high rise is distributing a new, lethal narcotic called slo-mo. Dredd and a new partner with telepathic abilities are sent into the building to arrest her. The drug lord retaliates by locking the building down and unleashing her minions on the two "judges". Mayhem ensues.
While there is a little black humour, the film is mostly just an exercise in pyrotechnics and design. The 3D added a hyper-real feel to the film that accentuated its comic-book origins and the overall look-and-feel was good, but in the end it was fairly forgettable.
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