Karl Urban gives good chin in a pleasingly grimy, ballsy, UK independent production that obliterates the rotten memories of Stallone's badly misjudged '90s take on this cult comic favourite. Dredd the movie, like Dredd the character, is not particularly smart, and somewhat heavy-footed, but gets by with an effective mixture of substantial brutality, wry, underplayed humour, and a healthy dose of scathing totalitarian dystopia. It may not live up to the very best of its kind, but when, at around the half-way mark, the writers steal an iconic line from Robocop, I had to admit, "yep, fair play, it's earned the right to do that". And that's pretty high praise in my view.
Rating: 4/5
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