Dredd

Watched the Blu-Ray of Dredd today.

It's weird calling this a "remake" of the original, since pretty much the only thing they kept from the original was the name and the costume. The story is absolutely different, besides the whole "Judges are the Law" aspect of it.

In this movie America is just a giant radioactive wasteland, and Dredd takes along a Rookie, with psychic abilities to respond to a murder and they ended up getting one of the lieutenants of a big crime boss to be interrogated, but the crime boss locks down the building they are in, which has nearly 100,000 people (yeah, buildings are pretty big in the future).

Lots of action, and the blood scenes, especially in the beginning of the movie, seems to have been done by a 16 years old with Adobe Premier. Even though some, not all, of the blood splatter is almost comical, it doesn't really take away the fact that the movie is pretty cool. The part where the criminals have 3-4 gatling guns just fucking shit up is just awesome.

Some of the remakes of old movies, such as Total Recall, are really nice and stay true to their predecessors for the most part, but in this movie besides the name of the Judge and the fact that the guns use DNA like in the original movie, it has nothing to do with the original. It's basically a different movie, or perhaps a decendant of the original Dredd, yet it does such a great job that you are not reminiscing about the original at all, and you will truly enjoy this "remake".

IMDB has it rated at 7.5, and I give my own personal rating of 9.0! Only reason it's not 9.5 or 10 is because of that girl that plays the Rookie. That freaking mole or wart, or whatever the hell it is, on her upper lip is fucking disgusting. Every time they did a close-up of her it grossed me out. Which is a shame because she's pretty, it's just that one fucking giant mole on her lip that freaks me the fuck out. Reminds me of the chick that plays Hunger Games, really hot but with a mole that's fucking disgusting. It's like these people never heard of cosmetic surgeries.