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Synopsis: The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One - a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge - a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed. During a routine day on the job, Dredd is assigned to train and evaluate Cassandra Anderson, a rookie with powerful psychic abilities thanks to a genetic mutation. A heinous crime calls them to a neighborhood where fellow Judges rarely dare to venture - a 200 storey vertical slum controlled by prostitute turned drug lord Ma-Ma and her ruthless clan. When they capture one of the clan's inner circle, Ma-Ma overtakes the compound's co
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Pete Travis
Production: Lionsgate Films
  2 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
R
Year:
2012
95 min
$13,401,683
Website
2,439 Views


in the block after your blood.

There are no sides. You're already dead.

Looks like the Med Center's

closed early today.

Switch weapon to silencer mode.

Our best bet now is to go covert.

Conserve ammunition.

And don't shoot unless you're gonna hit.

- Sir, what about the prisoner?

- Explain.

Under the circumstances,

he could be a liability.

Also a prime suspect in three homicides.

What do you say, rookie?

Wanna cut him loose?

No, sir.

Get up!

Go, go, go, go!

Hold up.

- Move!

- Keep your eyes peeled.

Man, stop telling me what to f***ing do!

I know that new sh*t...

Cathy?

- Who's there?

- Cathy, open the door.

We're not gonna hurt you.

Clear.

Secure the woman somewhere

she can't raise any alarms.

We can't.

She has a baby. Asleep in the next room.

We can't secure her if we don't know

when she'll be freed.

Is there a father?

He's out there. Looking for us.

Say that. What you were just thinking.

- How did you...

- Lt's okay. Go ahead.

I'm not raising any alarms.

If the men out there don't know where

you are, you won't be killing them.

Go on.

There's a service elevator near here.

The sign says it's broken, but

it works as long as you're hitting

a button above level 75.

I just want you off my level.

Away from my family.

- Cathy, I...

- Don't thank me.

It's not for you.

I just don't wanna see you again.

You won't.

This drug shifts like nothing I've ever seen.

If we play this right,

we could take the whole f***ing city.

The only danger is we expand too fast.

In the last few days, we've added

distribution to three new blocks.

And pretty soon, we're looking at

making inroads into Sectors 9 and 15.

Fifteen is still Red territory.

Ma.

You better come quick.

Okay. We got one here,

maybe 11 outside the Med Center.

There's eight in the stairwell

and another five on level 18.

They've downed 30 plus

and haven't even taken a scratch.

Where are they now?

I don't know, but they seem

to be moving their way up the block.

No, wait, wait. I just picked them up.

They're on level 76, west quadrant.

Do you want me to patch you back

into the PA?

We could get level 60 through 80

converging on them.

No. Can you seal them in there?

Sure. War override gives me

total control of the building.

That's not good.

Full lockdown. They're going nowhere.

I tried to do this clean, but they wouldn't

let me. So now we do it messy.

Too late, Judge.

Caleb, come in.

Ma.

We've got them cornered.

We're taking them down right now.

We'd need oxyacetylene to cut through.

They know where we are.

Why aren't they coming after us?

That's what worries me.

Take him back to the main lobby.

Hold position behind the elevator shaft.

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Alex Garland

Alexander Medawar Garland is an English writer and filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel The Beach, which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. more…

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