Dredd 3D (2012) Movie Review                                                                     

    Dredd is the latest remake and stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby. Judge Dredd was one of the one of the few movies that should have been remade because the writers of that movie should be fired and fans of the comics felt like it destroyed the comics. When I heard they were remaking it, I was excited until I saw the trailers. I was dreading (sorry) seeing this movie. This movie was incredible.
    The plot of Dredd is quite simple, which is that Judge Dredd and this rookie, Anderson, are investigating a crime when the 200 story building they are in gets locked down and the villian, Ma-Ma , sends almost all of her men after the judges. Karl Urban was fantastic as Judge Dredd and he was a lot better than Stallone was because Urban never took his helmet off while Stallone only had his on in  a third of his movie. Stallone had a better chin than Karl Urban but Urban felt the part. Olivia Thirlby was also pretty good as Anderson and her character was a psychic which I didn't think would work at all but it worked.  I can't believe I'm writing that I enjoyed Dredd 3D. If I showed myself this review in June when the first trailer was released, I wouldn't believe it. The person from Game of Thrones who played the villian was disgusting in a good way and was probably the best performance in this movie.
     Finally, let's get to the action and slow motion. The first action scene where Dredd is chasing these three guys down was the best action scene of the whole movie not only because it involved one of the best death scenes, but I  also like chase scenes. I am not kidding, Judge Dredd shoots some kind of flare into a guys mouth and his face burns into ashes and dies. That was pretty awesome. Also in the movie, thugs are passing around this drug that puts everything in slow-motion and in some sequences, it was beautiful. One of the clips released for this movie shows when Dredd and Anderson break into a room and shoot all these people on the drug. It was really beautiful and so was  a scene when someone gets thrown out a window and the shards of glass are sparkling. The 3D is also really cool because you see blood and bullets flying at you. I highly recommend seeing Dredd and I'll give it a 9/10. So I'd like to know, what's your favorite action movie of this year so far? The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, and Spiderman don't count because they're not fully action movies. Comment below or email me at bxvone@gmail.com.