For a big, dumb action movie, this wasn't half bad. I don't remember seeing the old 90's Judge Dredd with Stallone. I keep getting it confused with Demolition Man. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is assigned rookie partner Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) on a test basis. Anderson was just shy of passing the Judge exam but is being granted a conditional pass because of her strong psychic ability. They are called to the Peach Trees mega-complex, a kilometer-high building with 75,000 residents, over a triple murder. Three men were skinned and thrown from the 200th floor. Dredd and Anderson trace them back to a dealer (Wood Harris) of a new kind of narcotic sweeping Mega City One: Slo-mo, which makes the imbibers feel as though time were moving at a fraction of its speed. The drug's distributor, Ma-Ma (Lena Headey) is based out of Peach Trees and determines that the judges cannot be allowed to interrogate their captured dealer. She seals the building and puts a bounty on Dredd and Anderson's heads. From there, it's all bullets.
I can't deny that the film is hyper-violent. I'll probably end up owning it, or at least burning a permanent copy from the server. That's pretty much the only allure here, since there's not much in the way of nuance or character development. The good guys are strictly defined and the bad guys are even more so. There's a little interest in Anderson's psychic abilities, since those are explored pretty decently in the film and Karl Urban gives a great frowny face. Seriously, he's like a human grumpy cat with a helmet in this. It's awesome. Your mileage may vary but it's definitely worth a watch.
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