Dredd

Movie
German title	Dredd
Original title	Dredd
Country of production	South Africa , ; United Kingdom , ; United States , ; India
original language	English
Publishing year	2012
length	96 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Pete Travis
script	Alex Garland
production	Andrew Macdonald ; Allon Reich; Alex Garland
music	Paul Leonard-Morgan
camera	Anthony Dod Mantle
cut	Mark Eckersley
occupation
	Karl Urban : Judge Dredd ; Olivia Thirlby : Cassandra Anderson; Lena Headey : Madeline Madrigal "Ma-Ma"; Wood Harris : Kay; Domhnall Gleeson : Ma-Ma's computer specialist;
synchronization

Dredd is a science fiction action film from 2012 and is based on the comic character Judge Dredd from the British comic magazine 2000 AD . Directed by Pete Travis and written by Alex Garland . The main characters are Karl Urban , Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby . The German theatrical release was on November 15, 2012, in an uncut version, approved for ages 18 and over.

The film is the second adaptation of the comic series after Judge Dredd from 1995. Although Dredd received mostly positive reviews, the film had little commercial success. The budget was $ 50 million, but the film only grossed $ 35 million worldwide.

action

The action of the film takes place in the fictional city Mega City One , a metropolis in the United States of America of the future. The city comprises a large area of Boston , Washington, DC and New York and is sealed off from the rest of the state because it is uninhabitable due to nuclear radiation . Within the city, 800 million people mostly live in multi-hundred-story high-rise complexes, the megablocks, and there is a high crime rate. State authority takes the form of judges , who are police officers, judges, juries and, in the case of a death penalty, executioners rolled into one.

Judge Dredd is on duty against a gang of convicts who are under the influence of drugs on the street. Afraid of being convicted by Judge Dredd of driving under the influence of psychoactive substances , they give themselves a chase and shoot him. On their escape they run over a passerby, which is why they pull Dredd out of traffic. All but one of the gang members die when their vehicle crashes. The survivor escapes into a megablock, shoots several people and takes a hostage. Since he trip from Dredd offer - lifelong solitary confinement against task - deflects he is condemned by Dredd to death and executed.

After the assignment, Dredd is assigned a recruit: Cassandra Anderson. She grew up on the outskirts near the irradiated area and was orphaned when her parents died from radiation poisoning. Although she narrowly missed the required final grade at the Judge Academy, the authority management wants to test her suitability again in practical use, because as a mutant she has special telepathic abilities. Dredd is supposed to make a final assessment at the end of the work day.

Together they go to a mission in the megablock Peach Trees , where three deaths have occurred. On site, they learn from the responsible paramedic that the three dead were drug dealers. On the instructions of the gang leader Madeline Madrigal, called Ma-Ma , they were skinned, pumped full of the drug Slo-Mo and thrown from the top floor into the courtyard . Dredd and Anderson then blow up a drug dealer nest on the lower floors of the complex. The men who did not die in the action are arrested by the judges. Anderson identifies a man named Kay as the one responsible for the three murders. Dredd decides to take him for questioning. To prevent Kay from unpacking, Ma-Ma forces a computer expert to gain access to the high-rise's security system and to fake a security test that locks the high-rise when the two judges want to leave the high-rise with Kay. Due to the cordoning off, the judges are no longer able to establish a radio link to call for support.

Dredd and Anderson then fight their way through the high-rise to the medical center of the house, but there they are denied any help. Ma-Ma tells her computer experts to seal off the floor where there are the judges, and leaves it with machine guns take under fire, where there will be numerous victims among the inhabitants of the tower. The judges manage to escape to an outside extension and request reinforcements. After the firestorm, they return to the skyscraper, where they meet Ma-Ma's henchmen. Dredd overpowers Ma-Ma's henchman Caleb and throws him down into the courtyard, which Ma-Ma knows the Judges are still alive.

As the fight progresses, Dredd's interest in finding out why Ma-Ma is so concerned about preventing Kay from making a statement. Anderson uses her telepathic skills to penetrate Kay's consciousness and find out that the high-rise complex is the central production facility for the drug Slo-Mo . Dredd then decides to visit Ma-Ma . Meanwhile, the reinforcements called by Dredd and Anderson, Judges Volt and Guthrie, arrive at the skyscraper, but Ma-Ma forces her computer experts to deny them access and assure them that it is merely a malfunction of the security system. When two armed teenagers threaten Dredd and Anderson, Kay manages to loosen his bonds, bring Anderson under his control and take her to an elevator that takes her to the top floor, the headquarters of Ma-Ma .

Dredd gains access to the public address system and sentences Ma-Ma to death. When another attack on him fails, Ma-Ma decides to call the authorities himself. The four corrupt judges Lex, Kaplan, Chan and Alvarez replace Volt and Guthrie, who were denied access to the building. They are let into the skyscraper, kill the Paramedic as he is ready to testify against Ma-Ma , and negotiate with her that they will settle the matter for the payment of a million. The female Judge Kaplan is said to stay with Ma-Ma , while her three male corrupt colleagues want to eliminate Dredd. Chan meets Dredd first, but is exposed and killed by him. When Kay tries to kill the captured Anderson with her own weapon, it explodes, since it only serves its rightful carrier, whom she recognizes by means of a DNA scanner. Anderson manages to kill Kay and escape. Judge Kaplan then leaves Ma-Ma to go on a hunt for Anderson. When the two female judges meet, Anderson uses her telepathic abilities to recognize Kaplan's real intentions and kills them. Meanwhile, Judge Dredd gains access to the drug lab, where he meets Alvarez and Lex. Dredd manages to kill Alvarez with the last of his ammunition before he is badly injured by Lex, unable to fire. Before Dredd can kill, Anderson finds them both and shoots Lex. Dredd makes makeshift care for his wound.

The judges find Ma-Ma's computer expert . When Anderson reads his mind using her telepathic skills, she lets him go. Using the found-out by Anderson access code gain Dredd and Anderson access to the apartment of Ma-Ma , where Anderson is shot. Ma-Ma explains to Dredd that she has a detonator on her body that will explode the upper floors and collapse the entire skyscraper if her heartbeat should stop. Judge Dredd shoots Ma-Ma , then forces them to inhalation of Slo-Mo and throws it down the courtyard. When she hits the bottom, the signal from her device is too weak to trigger the explosion .

Dredd makes makeshift care for Anderson's wound and unlocks the complex. He tells Anderson that their assessment is complete. Anderson is convinced that she has failed due to the temporary loss of her primary weapon, gives up her badge and leaves the complex area, which has been surrounded by emergency services. However, Dredd explains to the boss, who has now arrived, that Anderson passed.

Production and publication

The film was made by the British studio DNA Films and directed by Pete Travis . Alex Garland wrote the script and Jock was responsible for the design. Andrew MacDonald and Allon Reich were producers and IM Global agency was responsible for the financing and distribution. With a budget of 45 million US dollars, filming began in South Africa in November 2010 . Mark Eckersley was responsible for the editing, the music is by Paul Leonard-Morgan . In an interview in March 2018, lead actor Karl Urban confirmed that screenwriter and producer Alex Garland Dredd directed a significant part of it himself. Together with the actual director Pete Travis, he decided against being named as a co-director.

The film premiered on July 11, 2012 at San Diego Comic Con . During September 2012 the film was released in cinemas in many countries including the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Brazil and India. Further premieres followed, finally on November 15, 2012 in Germany and Switzerland.

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role	German speaker
Judge Dredd	Tobias Kluckert
Cassandra Anderson	Maja Maneiro
Madeline Madrigal "Ma-Ma"	Claudia Lössl
Kay	Florian Halm
Ma-Ma's computer specialist	Asad Black

reception

Karl Urban , who received critical acclaim, at the Fantastic Fest 2012

The film was largely well received in the US and UK. According to the film review site Rotten Tomatoes , 78% of a total of 147 film reviews examined are positive. Entertainment Weekly praises the bloody, violent plot, the design of a dirty future vision, the matching music and the slightly ironic and slightly ironic acting reminiscent of Clint Eastwood by Karl Urban, in contrast to currently rather harmless action films . The Hollywood Reporter also points to the typically British, black humor that the film has adopted from the comic book and has become significantly darker than the first film adaptation. Judge Dredd's depiction is also closer to the original; Together with the always impressive designs, the film was a success and offers something for fans of comics as well as newcomers. The Guardian praises the portrayal of Judge Dredd as a "character without qualities" by Karl Urban and that the particularly interesting, but possibly controversial aspects of the comic have not been left out as in other film adaptations.

The Los Angeles Times and Newsday recognize the quality of the cast and visuals, but criticize the overly dark and inhuman acting plot, which prevents the film from reaching its full potential. The criticism in the New York Post is completely negative , where the story's scenario is already met with great disbelief. The story in an aggressively ugly world is full of violence, which in the end leads to nothing, not even a climax, and no identification with the characters is possible.

Björn Becher formulated the following conclusion on the German portal Filmstarts : “'Dredd' is incredibly brutal and uncompromising, and the satirical undertone of the original is preserved very subtly. But most of all, the comic book adaptation of Pete Travis looks just amazing in 3D. For genre fans he (sic) the action spectacle is a must, even if the film turns out to be quite inconsistent and clearly subsides in the second half. "

"Another adaptation of a controversial comic figure [...] in which the incessant orgies of violence are not ironicized, but rather rolled out in slow motion and 3D. Logical errors and the monotony of the fierce fighting result in a tiring idle. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Apart from the crazy, visual frenzy of the film and apart from the figure drawing, which is very interesting for such a type of film (flat doesn't always mean stupid), Dredd is one thing above all: a hard-hitting action festival. At Dredd it's pretty down to business: Exploding hands, bursting heads and human torches can be seen time and time again and solidify the reputation of tough judges. All this is musically supported by a wonderfully powerful and mostly minimalist score by Paul Leonard-Morgan. The sound is hammering, helping to perceive the futuristic world of concrete, cruelty and garbage in a somewhat coarser, more threatening way. The bass doesn't just shake Mega City One, but the entire floor. Together with the relentless action and the mass of visual over-the-top moments, Dredd ignites one of the best and most impressive stampedes of the genre in recent years. "

- Sebastian Groß : Moviebreak.de

“While 'Judge Dredd' from 1995 transformed the iconic comic book into a brightly colored blockbuster operetta, author Alex Garland and director Pete Travis are celebrating the exact opposite program in their reboot. 'Dredd 3D' is the gloomy vision of an overpopulated survival-of-the-fittest future that is finally presented as a realistic ambience without a lacquered sci-fi design. Garland & Co. make a virtue out of their 'meager' 50 million dollar budget and instead of a sprawling would-be epic, deliver a consistently pointed (and tough) actioner who, as the opening chapter of a planned trilogy, almost incidentally presents the most important features of the Dredd universe established. A 3D look creates a blockbuster feeling that has never been seen before in the action cinema. "

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