The best way to sum up this film is this; if you are a fan
of the comic this will be purely compelling and enjoyable, however, for me is
yet another example of less is more. It
is a picture that is both overtly violent and gory, undoubtedly the way creator
John Wagner would have envisioned his legendary comic book antihero to be portrayed
on the silver screen. Karl Urban's incarnation falls somewhere between
tongue-in-cheek and total bad ass, a far improvement above Stallone's cornier
version which bombed at the box office. Olivia Thirlby's co starring performance
is unremarkable but tolerable. Lena Headey's villainess is unique and
original in some ways, but her acting is mediocre at best which overshadows her
character’s presence on screen. The story is engaging playing more like
a video game than a movie, but the overkill of gunplay and human splatter substantially
lessens the entertainment value. The best assessment would be a high
octane, bullet riddled joyride that plays like a hybrid of Predator 2 and Die
Hard on meth. 1 out of 5 Kernels: the better of the two Dredd
movies, but that is not saying much.
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