Dredd Film Review

This is a review on the film dredd, it's an 18 although through a 16 year olds eyes i can see features of the age, the film was surprising and quite gruesome. I thought that it was a disappointment that we never got to see the main characters face as his helmet was always on. The film dreadd is based on a famous comic book that's still sold in our shops today. The comic is a huge success however, the film didn't do so well. Dredd is a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge.The two man characters Karl Urban, Olivia Thirsty acted as the two judges 'Dredd' and 'Anderson'. The judge Anderson is sidekick, and can read peoples minds and tell exactly what is going on in someones head. And dredd is the main famous judge that everyone knows. The judge's mission was to find ma-ma and give her the sentence of death. They faced many tasks along the way to get to the level 200 to come face to face with ma-ma, and when they approached her, she had set a transmitter to her heart beat that if her heart stopped beating the whole of peach trees would go up. Ma-ma was proved wrong when she fell from level 200 and finally landed and came straight to her death when she landed, the whole of peach trees never did go up in flames so obviously it was all a set up. People have rated this film a 7/10 which i think is slightly generous. In my opinion i would give it a 5.5-6 as its not my type of film, however i surprisingly enjoyed it, at first i didn't think i was going to like it as it seemed a typical 'boys' film, although i was surprised as the film went on as it had a female actress as one of the main characters. The film is based on the peach trees estate, a 200-storey slum tower block that is put under lock down, as ma-ma wants these two judges dead. The director was Pete Travis wanted to create the special effects of slow motion so they could stretch 20 seconds to 2 minutes, he achieved this. He used a drug to slow time down, this was called 'slo-mo' so as actors were falling, the camera angles and shots can all be shot and show in slow motion. The camera shots and angles were used were varied from a wide angle to a close up shot, close up shots were used to show peoples reactions and facial expressions. The mise en scene is used throughout. Unfortunately this film was not a success as it lost a significant amount of money. I feel the reasons for loosing money were that the main judge's face was never shown, and it always carried the same tune of music which caused the views to get bored of the film. I think that many improvements could be made to this film, and that if it was a success and part 2 could have been produced. I would recommend this film to other viewers of a similar age as it's not quite what you'd expect.