I promised yesterday, but yesterday it somehow didn’t work out. Let it be today. In general, the process took a little longer, but at least I had time to think a little and collect my thoughts into a pile, so there is a chance that all this will not look like a continuous stream of disordered thoughts. And maybe it will be. I don’t know, I can’t guarantee anything somehow. Here.
First, I’ll make a disclaimer: fans of a film that came out 15 years ago, calm down and relax. Dredd version 2012 was made for comic book fans with all due respect to the original source and has very little relation to the previous film. It’s a completely different movie. And since I sympathize with the original ones, I warn you in advance that most comparisons will be far from being in favor of Sly.
I was waiting for “Judge Dredd” from the moment the first photographs appeared. Removed from the set and a statement was made from the director that “we will focus on the original comic book.”. Everything will be very tough and brutal.»
And at the beginning of this summer I had a chance to touch several issues of the comic. And that’s when I realized why the version with Sly was trashed by comic book fans. The fact is that the comic contains much more gloom, coldness and God knows what else, but not Rob Schneider, who are trying to joke and humanize Dredd. Dredd from the comics is an extremely collected, intelligent and unimportant Judge, and not Rimbaud, from whom bullets fly off just like that.
For example, one of the important features of the comic is that Dredd practically never takes off his helmet. No matter what happens, the helmet remains with him. There are jokes in the fan community that he even washes and sleeps in it. But this is true – over the more than 30-year history of the comic’s release, he was shown only a couple of times without a helmet, and then – not in the frame.
Now the film has been released and I can definitely say that at the moment this is the main film for me in the last couple of months, and maybe even more. To be honest, I left Nolan’s Bethman with less spiritual uplift.
In short, “Judge Dredd 3D” is a sane, dark, tough futuristic action movie about the future with bright characters and a plot adequate to its setting with a minimum of obtuseness, illogicalities and other nonsense that modern filmmakers love so much.
The paragraph above – this, in theory, should be enough to go see the film and vote for its continuation with rubles. Well, then I’ll get into acting work and certain aspects.
First, of course, we’ll look at what https://libra-spins.uk/withdrawal/ seems to be the main hero of the film. Throughout the entire film, only one thing was required of Karl Urban: to have a fixed, stern expression on his face and to speak in a quiet but very convincing voice all sorts of catchy and convincing phrases.
And here the question arises: who actually played in the film?? Urban or his stubble? To be honest, it’s difficult to say. Since the entire film Dredd does not part with his protective helmet, on the one hand it turns out that there was nothing to play. On the other hand, according to the original comics, Dredd is exactly like that. That is, to be completely frank, it is Sly’s fault that he showed us his sad little eyes.
But then the script comes into play. Not some kind of revelation from heaven, nevertheless it is very solidly and competently crafted. Dredd appears before us not as a person, but as a sword in the hands of justice. He is cool-blooded, extremely collected, intelligent and able to find a way out of almost any situation.
Dredd is the personification of steadfastness, resilience and other exaggerated traits that a Judge should ideally possess. He is one of the Pillars of Justice in this world ruled by crime. In short, he is radiantly brutal, disproportionately pretentious and cool as hell. On the other hand, he is quite real and mortal, like any person.
The dramatic human line is ultimately taken over by Judge Anderson, played perfectly by Olivia Thirlby. Essentially, she had to play for two – and she succeeded quite well. She’s a newbie. A mutant who is rarely hired as a Judge. But she has an interesting ability – she is a telepath. And this property of hers is connected, firstly, with the fact that she does not wear a helmet throughout the film, and secondly, with one of the most juicy scenes with the interrogation “And sometimes you don’t have to ask”.
Otherwise, she is a typical idealistic intern who wants to make the world a better, brighter place and blah blah blah. And although at first she seems fragile, and compared to Dredd she looks like fluff, but towards the end these two begin to understand each other. But again – no extra snot.
By the way, the film did a very good job on this topic. There are several moments when the viewer might think that “ohhh, now they’re going to start the organ!"But in the end, no one starts anything. That is, miniature dramas are happening, but no one is focusing on them. People, good and bad, die the same way. No pretentious farewell speeches or death throes.
Death in the film is generally portrayed extremely realistically. And this (for me personally) is a definite plus. What’s especially amazing in this regard is filming in slow-mo, when a bullet flies through a guy’s cheek and there’s blood, meat and a piece of his cheek practically flies to the side. And this despite the fact that no one places any special emphasis on this. That is, there are films where something like this would be especially savored. Here – well, maybe a scene in slow-mo. The rest of the time it happens fleetingly and almost routinely. In short: the film really deserves its “18+” rating.
The main antagonist is Ma-Ma. One of the most colorful movie villains of recent times and certainly one of the most striking negative female images of the same recent times. She’s the founder of this small drug empire. And she became one not out of nowhere, but because of her phenomenal cruelty and ability to control people. She didn’t do anything herself during the entire film. She only gave orders. At the same time, with such a face… how to say. There are villains who are preoccupied with their villainy, who are not satisfied even when some speck of dust turns out to be in the wrong place. Ma-Ma didn’t care about it all. The only time she was REALLY scared in the entire movie was when she learned that the Judges had captured one of her people who knew enough to put her behind bars. But even then, the fear disappears very quickly and is replaced by composure and the adoption of a series of logically based decisions.
The second bright emotion is before death (OH GOD SPOILER, THE MAIN VILLAIN IN A FILM WITH SUCH A MAIN CHARACTER IS DYING!11). Everything in between, judging by the sensations, is very close to concern about the presence of a spider in some corner of the apartment.
– Go poke him.
– Go slap him with a slipper.
– Lord, I don’t know, use a broom to drive him out of there.
Overall a cool look. I liked Ma-Ma and I was even somewhat sad that she ended like that, I won’t say how.
Otherwise, you can speculate a little about the plot itself. Speaking globally, there is nothing to talk about it other than what I have already said. He is strong, self-sufficient and sane. Here, no Bruce Wayne is teleporting halfway around the world, no evil forces are trying to teleport to Earth something that is larger in mass, but obviously less durable, and so on.
The characters act based on the laws of logic and their emotions, and not for the sake of just another beautiful scene. There are a couple of points that raise questions, of course, not a single work of art can do without it, but if we take it globally, then these questions are simply several times less in comparison with brothers in the genre.
There are no too deep images or subtexts there. The film is not about that at all. Perhaps even I went too far with the “onalez” of images over there above and found something that no one had ever imagined. But here comes the fact that I really liked the film.
Well, last but not least, I will praise the cameramen, set decorators, designers and other people who took part in this film. Because as far as design and music are concerned, everything again turned out to be very rosy for me. The same new costume that fans of the last film mixed with crap after the release of the first photos seemed to me much more practical in terms of application. And it’s orders of magnitude better than Stallion’s plastic shoulder pad, to be honest.
Otherwise, the picture is juicy, the cameraman was never struck by an attack of pseudo-documentary epilepsy, from which the Bourne quadrology already suffers greatly, all sorts of filters and so on are placed in place and all that.
And by the way, really, I forgot about 3D and Rapida. I personally felt the 3D in the film was weak. More precisely, strongly, but it is very. It kicks in exactly when someone takes another dose of Rapid – a drug that kind of speeds up the brain and makes you perceive everything much slower than usual. A similar effect was implemented in “Areas of Darkness” (“Limitless” in the original which). But if there it was quite superficial, but here a transformation is taking place to the fullest. Everything becomes colorful, bright, warm, sparkling. With such an effect, even a bullet flying through the cheek and tearing it apart looks fascinating. And even more so – against the backdrop of contrast with the surrounding shit.
In short, I recommend everyone to go. A great film that leaves an extremely pleasant aftertaste. To be honest, I’ve become disillusioned with Nolan over the past week. First there was “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns” based on the comic book by Frank Millar, who did “Rebirth” simply with all his might. And now here’s Judge Dredd, which left a much greater impression upon leaving the theater. And this despite the fact that in the middle of the session the electricity in our hall went out and we sat and were dumb for 15 minutes.
Here. All. All the best, watch the History of the Metal Gear Series that began earlier than promised and be happy.