Negotiation's over. Sentence is death 🩸

The slow motion scenes were so sick. this movie is a must watch fs!!

Negotiation's over. Sentence is death 🩸

The slow motion scenes were so sick. this movie is a must watch fs!!

Holy peak. Dredd is not what I expected at all. This film falls into a category that really is one of a kind. It takes action and uses art to elevate it to something new entirely. The only other movie I can think of that really does the same is Mad Max Fury Road. This is so much more psychedelic than I expected too. I can easily see my rating of this going up with more viewings

Holy peak. Dredd is not what I expected at all. This film falls into a category that really is one of a kind. It takes action and uses art to elevate it to something new entirely. The only other movie I can think of that really does the same is Mad Max Fury Road. This is so much more psychedelic than I expected too. I can easily see my rating of this going up with more viewings

Currently obsessed with the new 4k steelbook, I forgot how much I love this movie.

Currently obsessed with the new 4k steelbook, I forgot how much I love this movie.

The name’s Dredd. Judge Dredd.

The name’s Dredd. Judge Dredd.

@logan, you hyped this up way too much, and I hope you’re happy with yourself.

My expectations for this movie were sky high — and I mean that literally. Logan has reviewed this movie 3 times, given it 5 stars every time, bumped it into his top 4 films, and would not stop talking about it. So I went in expecting something special. What I got was anything but special 😭

Where do I even start?

Let’s address the elephant in the room — this movie is essentially a knockoff of The Raid. Both films follow a law enforcement officer trapped in a high-rise building controlled by a ruthless crime lord, forced to fight their way to the top floor. The difference is that The Raid executes that premise with brutal, masterclass-level action choreography. Dredd just… exists 😐 in its shadow and makes every element worse.🫩

Karl Urban is fine. I actually like him in the boys, he commits fully to the role — jaw clenched, voice gravelly, helmet never coming off. But even he can’t save the material he’s working with, because the scriptwriting is genuinely painful. Every one-liner Dredd delivers made me cringe into another dimension. The dialogue between Dredd and the rookie, Anderson, is so clunky and unnatural that I found myself laughing out loud at scenes that were clearly meant to be tense or dramatic. That is not the reaction a “dark, gritty” action film should be pulling from its audience.

The acting across the board doesn’t help either. Several scenes had me cackling for all the wrong reasons. The main villain, Ma-Ma, has a decent character concept, but the execution feels flat. No backstory, nothing, just wants to make drugs, that's it 😭 The rookie’s mind-reading subplot had potential, but the way it plays out on screen just adds more awkward dialogue to an already struggling script.

Then there’s the CGI — and oh boy. The film leans heavily into a slow-motion drug sequence called “Slo-Mo” as its visual centerpiece. Conceptually interesting. In practice? The CGI looks cheap, dated, and takes you completely out of any immersion the movie was trying to build. The high-tech gadgets and weaponry could have been genuinely cool, but when everything looks this rough visually, it undercuts the world-building entirely.

And the action scenes — the thing I was most looking forward to — were the biggest disappointment of all. I came in expecting Raid-level intensity: claustrophobic, sweat-inducing, brutal fight sequences that keep you on the edge of your seat. What I got were gunfights that barely crack a minute before cutting away. There’s no tension, no real choreography to admire, no moments that made me sit up. Just generic corridor shooting with slow-motion spliced in to pad the runtime.

I genuinely do not understand the 3.6. I find it kind of absurd. This movie tries hard to be dark and gritty, but the CGI, editing, acting, and writing all work against it until it just looks and feels like every other mid-tier action movie from the early 2010s. Nothing here is special. Nothing here is memorable in a good way.

Logan, with love — you were wrong. Stop tweaking.

Go watch The Raid instead

@logan, you hyped this up way too much, and I hope you’re happy with yourself.

My expectations for this movie were sky high — and I mean that literally. Logan has reviewed this movie 3 times, given it 5 stars every time, bumped it into his top 4 films, and would not stop talking about it. So I went in expecting something special. What I got was anything but special 😭

Where do I even start?

Let’s address the elephant in the room — this movie is essentially a knockoff of The Raid. Both films follow a law enforcement officer trapped in a high-rise building controlled by a ruthless crime lord, forced to fight their way to the top floor. The difference is that The Raid executes that premise with brutal, masterclass-level action choreography. Dredd just… exists 😐 in its shadow and makes every element worse.🫩

Karl Urban is fine. I actually like him in the boys, he commits fully to the role — jaw clenched, voice gravelly, helmet never coming off. But even he can’t save the material he’s working with, because the scriptwriting is genuinely painful. Every one-liner Dredd delivers made me cringe into another dimension. The dialogue between Dredd and the rookie, Anderson, is so clunky and unnatural that I found myself laughing out loud at scenes that were clearly meant to be tense or dramatic. That is not the reaction a “dark, gritty” action film should be pulling from its audience.

The acting across the board doesn’t help either. Several scenes had me cackling for all the wrong reasons. The main villain, Ma-Ma, has a decent character concept, but the execution feels flat. No backstory, nothing, just wants to make drugs, that's it 😭 The rookie’s mind-reading subplot had potential, but the way it plays out on screen just adds more awkward dialogue to an already struggling script.

Then there’s the CGI — and oh boy. The film leans heavily into a slow-motion drug sequence called “Slo-Mo” as its visual centerpiece. Conceptually interesting. In practice? The CGI looks cheap, dated, and takes you completely out of any immersion the movie was trying to build. The high-tech gadgets and weaponry could have been genuinely cool, but when everything looks this rough visually, it undercuts the world-building entirely.

And the action scenes — the thing I was most looking forward to — were the biggest disappointment of all. I came in expecting Raid-level intensity: claustrophobic, sweat-inducing, brutal fight sequences that keep you on the edge of your seat. What I got were gunfights that barely crack a minute before cutting away. There’s no tension, no real choreography to admire, no moments that made me sit up. Just generic corridor shooting with slow-motion spliced in to pad the runtime.

I genuinely do not understand the 3.6. I find it kind of absurd. This movie tries hard to be dark and gritty, but the CGI, editing, acting, and writing all work against it until it just looks and feels like every other mid-tier action movie from the early 2010s. Nothing here is special. Nothing here is memorable in a good way.

Logan, with love — you were wrong. Stop tweaking.

Go watch The Raid instead