Dredd

First off, why anyone would want to make a remake of a not so great film baffles me to no end.  Secondly, how anyone could make a remake of it even worse 17 years later is really disturbing.  Ok, ok, so it's not technically a remake in all fairness.  I guess it's technically a continuation of the adventures of the character Judge Dredd.  This time around the judge, jury, and executioner cop (Karl Urban) takes a psychic rookie judge (Olivia Thirlby) under his wing.  An investigation into a triple murder leads to them to try taking down drug lord Ma-Ma (Lena Headey) held up in a 200 story apartment.  Yeah, it's soo original a story. We've seen this type of story before and we've seen it done so much better and creatively in films like The Raid: Redemption and District B13.  I don't know what they were doing here in Dredd.  It was limp and all the cgi, special effects, sets, costumes, gunplay, and futuristic set designs couldn't get this film going or me even mildly excited about it.  Karl Urban is as wooden as his character throughout and for 95 fucking minutes, we have to listen to his cheap raspy one liners and watch him keep that stupid helmet on.  Might as well, have been watching Robocop.  Oh wait, they are actually making that as I write this.  The villain Ma-Ma is a psychotic killer and drug addict, who doesn't really do anything interesting or that smart throughout the film.  She just looks like a grungy crackhead ordering people to find and kill the judges and what she does manage to have up her sleeve when confronting Dredd, is equally weak in imagination or smart cunning.  The only slightly interesting facet to this movie was Dredd's trainee partner with her psychic abilities, that I was hoping would move the story along a more interesting path, in so far as character development or plot.  Of course, by the time I realized it wasn't to be, I was already numb with disappointment and boredom.  It was as if I had taken some of Ma-Ma's Slo-Mo drug and had a bad trip.  Dredd is quite dreadful.

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