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Your support makes all the difference.Based on the 2000 AD comic strip, this stars Karl Urban as the ruthless law enforcer, stubbly of chin, gravelly of voice, and itchy of trigger-finger.
The time is the future, the setting is a vertiginous megablock slum that houses the nastiest gangs in town, the mission is to clean up a routine homicide.
Dredd is accompanied by a rookie Judge, Cassandra (Olivia Thirlby), a psychic as well as a sidekick, but on arriving at the crime scene our dynamic duo find big trouble – vicious leader of the Ma-Ma clan Lena Headey locks down the building and puts out an APB for their immediate extermination.
Cue corridor-chases, gun battles and the sort of ultra slo-mo that examines precisely how flesh is lacerated by bullets. N ice. Dredd has pretty much everything your violent action adventure could hope for – except timing.
You can't watch this without being reminded of Gareth Evans's Indonesian thriller The Raid, which has an identical setting and plot, only with better fights and racier handling.
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