Movie Title: “Dredd”

Rating: R

Category: Action, Sci-Fi

Hollywood is really running out of ideas nowadays, and “Dredd” is just the cherry on top of Hollywood’s “bad movie sundae.”

Based off the 1995 movie, “Judge Dredd,” “Dredd” is an action and science fiction film with a futuristic theme.

Dredd (Karl Urban) is out to regain control of his city from a gang with an altering reality drug called “SLO-MO.” In this futuristic city, the police, or Judges, act as executioners, judges and a jury. They can, and will, try victims on the spot in the streets.

“Dredd” is a rated R for strong, bloody violence, language, drug use, and sexual content.  Based off the trailer, “Dredd” can seemingly hook in those with low expectations and short attention spans.

Any brainless teenager will enjoy all the explosions and fast cut scenes with splashes of slow motion being thrown all at once. With the amount of violence and destruction going on, it’s hard to tell what’s actually happening in the trailer. The movie was no different.

This movie surely cannot live up to “Judge Dredd.” “Dredd” starts off introducing the main character, Dredd. Who even is he? The narration never explains who he is, where he is from, where it takes place, or why everything is chaotic.

All the narration says is, “I am the law, I am the executioner, I am the jury, I am judge!” Then there are loud noises and explosions.

What’s going on with this “SLO-MO” drug? Obviously, in the movie, when people get high off of it, they can see everything in slow motion. The director didn’t need to put slow motion after slow motion after slow motion in the beginning of the movie.

Viewers aren’t oblivious. They can/will realize that the scenes is in slow motion, they will get it. If the director didn’t have all of the slow motion clumped in one part of the film, and instead space it out throughout the entire film, it would have been more pleasing to the eyes.

As far as acting goes, Urban is better than this. What was the director thinking whenever Urban was on the screen? Dredd would make the same face, and looked like he smelled a foul stench throughout the entire movie. If Urban wasn’t trying to live up to Sylvester Stallone, who played Dredd from “Judge Dredd,” it would’ve helped Urban’s acting tenfold. The rest of the actors were mediocre and obviously being told what to do from behind the camera.

All in all, this movie deserves a 2 out of 5 Grizzly bear claws because of the lack of a plot, mediocre acting and over use of special effects. It a shame that they spent half a million dollars for a slow motion camera and they abused it. And now the viewers have constant motion sickness.