Hell yeah! Dredd's back on the big screen and played by Karl Urban!

Oh... So it retells the universe of Judge Dredd making this a reboot... I'll tell you here and now that future doesn't really look that future-like. Actually looks kinda like modern Los Angeles and for Megacity One, I don't think it looks crowded or overpopulated at all but anyway, that's nitpicking... Moving on! So Dredd's day begins chasing some druggies driving recklessly on the road. The van crashes and it leads to one of the bad guys getting away and having a hostage trying to negotiate... C'mon, everyone that KNOWS Judge Dredd knows that's a stupid frakkin' idea!  Dredd kills the perp (naturally) and hostage gets away. Dredd goes back to the station and meets a rookie named Anderson with exceptional psychic powers. Dredd is ordered to take her out and show her the ropes and give her a trial run, she chooses the murder case at Peach Trees building block to issue out justice. What does that have to do with the beginning, well the criminals in this building are the ones concocting and distrubiting the drug the dumbasses were on at the beginning... In other words, those were just expendable characters with NO ties to the rest of the movie... No revenge plot or Dredd trying to track this drug down or anything like that... It was just filler.

"Pointlessly wasting my time should be against the law... Yet the movie makers allowed it... Yeah."
-Judge Dredd

So the gang that skinned and killed these 3 guys are after the Judges who busted one of the gang's lieutenants. Everyone seems more afraid of the gang than of Judge Dredd... What the Hell?! His name is DREDD! This is the guy that'd bust your ass for vagrancy even if your legs don't work (Seriously, a homeless guy gets squashed in a door he SAW closing in but Dredd was gonna arrest him)! The same guy that the gang is trying to blow away by murdering everyone on a floor of this building with a couple miniguns and yet, THAT doesn't stop Dredd! Seriously people, stop and think of this! Oh and when that doesn't work, what does the gang do? They call in for some crooked Judges to take Dredd down. Ooooooh, this Mama gang sure is big and scary compared to Dredd! How many of thir guys has Dredd offed by now? 15? 30? 75?

"You guys are only getting 250,000 a piece IF you kill Dredd? Yeah, I agree with Dredd, that's pretty cheap merc work."
-Judge Alvarez
"Eh, you're a pansy."
-Judge Lex
"You're right! I should risk dying or being a fugitive for a mere handful of credits!"
-Judge Alvarez

Yeah, that doesn't work too great for those guys. Dredd lives and goes after Mama who tries to negotiate her way outta being busted by holding the building hostage with explosives and a remote detonator in her hand but we know Dredd ain't gonna tolerate that shit! That's the whole movie!

"Well, Anderson... Looks like we failed the Wolf's trial run... Yeah."
-Judge Dredd

Yes and no. Honestly, it's a good modern action film of the 2000s but those have gotten away from being fun like Terminator 2, Judge Dredd, even Independepence Day and Godzilla where you had spectacular effects (for the time) merged with fun characters, serious situations, and a story that blended this all together. Dredd just kinda shows the life of a Judge in this fast paced crime infested future where human life isn't worth squat and I feel nothing for the characters short of Anderson, who's just experiencing this crap for the first time and deals with mind-rape, and this criminal hacker who's constantly being threatened to do stuff for Mama. Dredd himself feels kinda "... meh" up until he gives his "I am the law" speech and kills a good dozen gang members with a single shot. As for the effects in this movie, they get all "ooooooh" and "aaaaaaah" mostly when characters are high on their drug, but even that gets annoying as it's all in slow motion. How many minutes are wasted in slow-mo to make drugs look pretty and than here comes Dredd killing all that pretty away in a torrent of blood and bullets?! Freakin' pointless... Unless this was meant to be an art film... But I don't think that's the case. The crime of bad storytelling, this movie's guilty. The crime of lame douchebag antagonists, annoying slow motion and forced sexuality scenes, guilty. The crime of piss poor special effects, innocent. Bad acting, innocent. Overall bad film? ... The jury inside my twisted Mad Wolf head can't make up their minds. I want to like this movie but I pick up more bad than good. Dredd gets 2 out of 5 egotistical ultra-violent drug dealing gangs stuck in a big boring ass building.