As posted on Print the Legend by Choc:
Movie Review: Dredd (starring Karl Urban’s mouth)
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Dredd 3D (2012) (Dir. by: Pete Travis)
Starring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby
Rottentomatoes: 76%
IMDB 7.8
**
What sorcery is this? How can both the time-tested critics of
rottentomatoes and the cinephiliacs of imdb.con both miss wide off the
mark here? 76% on rotten and 7.8 on imdb?! Mind blown.
This movie fails on so many levels I just don’t know where to start.
As a sci-fi movie, it’s insulting. I don’t even think this qualifies
as science fiction at all. All sci-fi movies (the good ones anyway) all
have two things in common, their “conditio sine qua non” so to speak. First, in science fiction, the socio-political landscape is markedly different, this is why sci-fi is so interesting (for me at least) because this different “background” as often shown, happen in the future or in a different “universe” from our own. “Universe” in
cinematic terms, is the “world” where the movie happens (not
necessarily a collection of galaxies). Sci-fi is often misconstrued as
that movie featuring hi-tech gadgets, and quirky costumes, but it’s not
simply that. A good example is the movie “Never Let Me Go (2010) ”
starring Keira Knightley and Spider boy Andrew Garfield, adapted from
Ishiguro’s 2005 novel of the same name. In Never Let Me Go, there were, literally, nothing that would indicate that the story is happening in a different “universe”
from ours. There were no fancy gadgets or fancy costumes, it looked
absolutely normal and of this world. Yet, this movie was science fiction
at the height of its power.
