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About
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
Theatrical
Sep 21, 2012
Box Office
$41.0M
Budget
$50.0M
Return
0.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 8, 2013
Theaters
1
Director
Pete Travis
Writer
Alex Garland
Producers
Angela Hunt, Tim Field, Priyanka Balasubramania
Music
Paul Leonard-Morgan
Studio
Rena Film, DNA Films, Reliance Big Entertainment, IM Global, Peach Trees
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Quotes
See all →Assessment and Drug Bust Encounter
Judge Dredd
Anderson. Your assessment's now over.
Chief Judge
When I heard you called in a 10-24, I figured I'd better check it out, seeing how I forced the rookie on you. So, what happened in there?
Judge Dredd
Drug bust.
Chief Judge
Look like you been through it.
Judge Dredd
Perps were uncooperative.
Chief Judge
So how did she do? Is she a pass or a fail?
Judge Dredd
She's a pass.
Chief Judge
I knew she would be.
High Stakes Confrontation Between Dredd and Ma-Ma
Ma-Ma
You're a piece of work, Dredd. But then so am I. You think I didn't know I'd get busted some day? Goes with the territory. This entire level is rigged with enough high explosives to take out the top 50 stories. If they go, the rest go, too. Like the jewelry? It's a transmitter synched to my heart beat. My heart stops beating, the building blows. Everyone in it, ash. You got no way out, Judge. Put your gun down. Do you know how many people live in this block?
Judge Dredd
This isn't a negotiation. The sentence is death.
Ma-Ma
You can't afford to take the risk.
Judge Dredd
We're a kilometer above ground. What do you figure the range is on that thing? Could it get through a hundred levels of concrete? How about two hundred? Let's find out. Citizen Ma-Ma. Your crimes are multiple homicide and the manufacture and distribution of narcotics. How do you plead? Defense noted.
[Dredd picks Ma-Ma up and holds her in front of a window.; Ma-Ma stares defiantly at Dredd]
Justice and Responsibility in Judgment
Judge Cassandra Anderson
Go. Get out of here.
Judge Dredd
Mind explaining yourself, rookie? Abetting a felon is not just a fail offense. It's a crime.
Judge Cassandra Anderson
I already picked up the fail when I lost my primary weapon. I am not going to be a Judge, and I don't need to be a mind-reader to know it. He's a victim, not a perp. And until my assessment is formally over, I am still entitled to dispense justice. And that's what I just did by letting him go. Maybe that will be the one difference I do make. Let's finish this.
Confrontation Between Judges in Crisis
Judge Dredd
Two-way split.
[after killing Judge Alvarez]
Judge Lex
Yeah, I'd be breaking a sweat, if you hadn't just run out of bullets. Armor-piercing.
Judge Dredd
Wait.
Judge Lex
Wait? Are you kidding me? Did you just say "wait"? Judge Dredd, the Judge Dredd, finally gets on the wrong end of a gun, and what he says is "wait." You know what? I expected more of you. I mean, wait for what? Wait for me to change my mind? Wait for another two or three seconds of life because you're so fucking weak you just can't stand to see it end?
[lowers his weapon in disbelief]
Judge Dredd
No.
Judge Dredd
Wait for her to shoot you.
Cast
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Karl Urban
Judge Dredd
O
Olivia Thirlby
Cassandra Anderson
L
Lena Headey
Ma-Ma
W
Wood Harris
Kay
L
Langley Kirkwood
Judge Lex
T
Tamer Burjaq
Ma-Ma Bodyguard
J
Joe Vaz
Big Joe
R
Rakie Ayola
Chief Judge
J
Junior Singo
Amos
L
Luke Tyler
Freel
J
Jason Cope
Zwirner
D
Domhnall Gleeson
Clan Techie
W
Warrick Grier
Caleb (uncredited)
P
Porteus Xandau
Driver (uncredited)
E
Emma Breschi
Hostage (uncredited)
S
Shoki Mokgapa
Woman with Child (uncredited)
D
Deobia Oparei
Paramedic TJ (uncredited)
P
Patrick Lyster
Control Operator 2 (uncredited)
T
Travis Snyders
Slo-Mo Junkies (uncredited)
S
Scott Sparrow
Japhet (uncredited)
