A gritty ride that jumps right in & doesn't stop. It's simple & effectively meets its goals of hyper violent suspenseful crime content. The world building is brief but immersive with dull colors except for the gorgeously shot intoxication scenes.

Dredd forgoes the colourful big budget art direction of the 1995 Judge Dredd film. Instead it is a film set mainly in the interior of one of the Mega Cities, a cesspit where law and order is attempted to be maintained by the all powerful Judges who act like judge, jury and executioner.

Karl Urban is the best known and the most feared Judge Dredd, the always helmeted lawman assigned to evaluate a rookie Judge Cassandra Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) who has psychic abilities.

They go out to apprehend evil drug empress Ma-Ma (Lena Headley) who skinned three men and threw them off an high rise while induced with a slo-mo drugged which means they experience the fall in a slowed down reality. However when Dredd and Anderson go to the 200 storey complex, it is locked down and they are trapped inside as various bad guys go after them.

After that you realise he film is an inferior version of The Raid without the nifty martial arts despite some good visual effects which is delivered in a modest budget. The film is ultra violent and bloody, there are grotesque sequences of corpses falling slowly to the ground but the film has a thin plot, is slightly repetitive and lacking the grim, dark humour of the comics.