In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
Practical Effects
Slo-Mo effects: actual high-speed cameras, not CGI laziness
Score
Paul Leonard-Morgan's industrial grind haunts your speakers
Production
Peach Trees: one location, infinite vertical nightmare
Director
Pete Travis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Slo-Mo sequences were shot at 4,000 frames per second using Phantom Flex cameras, giving that hypnotic, horrifying clarity to every droplet of blood.
This film exists in direct opposition to 1995's Stallone version—where that film mocked the source material, this one treats Dredd's absurd fascism with dead-serious commitment.
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