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has just screened at , and here's our first reaction to the comic-book reboot...
.Last night, fans at San Diego's Comic Con were treated to a preview screening of the Alex Garland-scripted, Pete Travis-directed Dredd and breathed a collective sigh of relief as a lean, mean Dredd laid violent waste to scum in a gritty, grubby Mega-City One. And kept his helmet on throu🐓ghout.
Despite rumours of rifts during production, Garland and Travis have created a horribly gorgeous vis♏ion of dystopian future where monolithic housing towers are r꧋un by criminal gangs - and policing is undertaken by judge/jury/execution officers, Judges. Cue Dredd (Karl Urban) a no-nonsense hardass who's got a psychic rookie, Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), tagging along for his shift.
Called ou🎶t to tower block Peach Trees to investigate some splattered body par🐼ts, Dredd and Anderson find themselves trapped in a -esque running battle, fighting their way up - one run-down filthy floor at a time - to gang leader Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).
Urban certainly has the downturned mouth and super-cool, gravelly delivery to pull off Dredd's nonchalance but he's aided by Garland's smart, fast script, a relentless flow of Rorschach Test blood sprays from bone-shattering b🦋rutality, eye-poppingly beautiful 3D visuals and peppy banter with Thirlby.
The body count is high, the humour grim and the violence stylishly graphic and reminiscent of (scenes involving a dr💝ug called Slo-Mo are visually intoxicating).
And that famous headgear stays resolutely on. Perhaps ready for Dredd 2 ? According to Garland there are two other Dredd adventures he's ready to🐻 write - based on this fast and hard outing, audiences may well be wanting more of the law...
opens in the UK on 7 September 2012.
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