IN PRAISE OF "DREDD" -- EASILY ONE OF THE KOOLEST SCI-FI/ACTION/COMIC BOOK MOVIES EVER MADE.
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on film stills to the 2012 sci-fi/action film "DREDD," based on the "2000 AD" British comic strip "Judge Dredd" and directed by Pete Travis with a screenplay by Alex Garland. The film was a notable box office disappointment, but is now lauded as a cult classic in the sci-fi/action/comic book movie genre.
[first lines]
"America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges."
-- JUDGE DREDD (screenplay by Alex Garland)
Sources: IMDb, IndieWire, Flix, Looper, Bloody Disgusting, Movie Insider, Top Ten Films, This Is Cool, Film Grab, various, etc...
