Dredd
This film is an adaptation of a 2000AD comic series called
Judge Dredd. Dredd is based on two judges fighting against the drug slo-mo and
the mama clan who run peach trees where the most of the film is filmed. The
main character, Dredd, is played by Karl Urban. He is perfect for this role as
he plays the character which the story dictates not his own version like
Sylvester Stallone. Karl Urban’s partner is rookie Anderson who is played by
Olivia Thirlby. Dredd was directed Pete Travis who is not a big director but
has his own style which makes dredd a good film. Travis was not announced as
the director until 2010 which is late in the production as the film was green
lighted in 2008. The script writer Alex Garland began writing in 2006 and
finished in 2007 but the film was not announced until 2008 and not screened
until 2012. Filming was in 3D and began in 2010, it was filmed mainly in Cape
Town and took 13 weeks. It was shot primarily in 3D using
a range of cameras but some scenes were shot it 2D then converted to 3D. As for
some of the scenes though a slow motion camera was used to capture more detail.
This film had a $45 million budget, which is a relatively small budget but made
even less at box office grossing only $36 million which is an unexpected loss
as the movie is filmed in 3D.The marketing of the film is fairly shocking
because it only used posters and a website which was not successful. The main
problem was it was marketed in 3D and not many cinemas showed 3D when it was
released. Dredd had a comic book tie in when it was released, the comic book
was to serve as a prequel to inform people how slo-mo was made and what Ma-Ma’s
life was before Dredd. This comic was written by the Judge Dredd Magazine
editor Matt Smith and was drawn by 2000 AD artist Henry Flint. The Comic book
was released on the 5th of September, 16 days before the release of
the film. Dredd was received by the critics in mixed responses because some
people thought it was a great action movie when others thought it dragged and
the ‘hyperviolence added up to nothing’, the overall Metacritic score was 59%.
The critics from Rotten Tomatoes received the film better and gave Dredd an
overall of 79%, this was because they thought Dredd was ‘violent, gory and faithful execution of the character that
fans should rejoice at’. The reason why the film wasn’t
a success was because the marketing of the film was poor, this was because
there idea to have a news website like The Dark Night Rises wasn’t a success.
Another reason why this film wasn’t a success was that it was tailored to the
comic con crowd as a devotion to the comic book series. Dredd was also a remake
of a very poor version of Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone in it which made
people have a bad opinion of it before it was released. Although the bad
response the film managed to pick up 2 awards, these were a UK empire award for
Best 3D and a Golden Trailer for Best Thriller TV Spot.
My
opinion of Dredd is that it is a very good sci-fi action film because it has immense
fighting scenes and gore. The film also doesn’t follow the line of comic book
violence but branches into realistic violence which I enjoy as no other comic
book adaptation has done that. I think that both Karl Urban and Olivia Thirby
made the film what it is and especially Karl’s performance as dredd was
spectacular. Karl stayed true to the role not removing his helmet and his
facial expression made the character. Another part of the film I enjoyed was
the slo-mo scenes as they don’t just show detail in the scene but they add an
element of beauty to the film.
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