Dredd
Judgement is coming.
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.
Wokeness: 0%
Overall Score: 80%
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NoWo
Better than Stallone!
Stallone's Dredd was a confused and confusing mess.
This one is a streamlined action flick that still manages to do the characters justice.
The main actors inhabit their respective characters quite well to my taste, even though I still think Urban comes off a little too much as a nice guy to really play a tough guy. Still quite a good Dredd.
Most surprisingly of all, considering the subject matter, the movie avoids any form of current political commentary, which is a good thing.
Created: 07-13-2024
Michaels
Viewer discretion is advised
"Dredd" starts great, with a novel style of dystopian future. It gets rather gory, though. Woke elements are present, but do not get much screen time.
The actress who plays Chief Judge is a 100% pure sub-Saharan African woman, though Welsh-born. I dislike the trend of passing over American black actors for the roles of American black characters. The message it sends is that they are not black enough to play black DEI roles. Plus, I could not understand this actress' dialog in one of her scenes, as she has a hell of an under bite, but we should not discriminate against actors who cannot speak. Should I just be grateful that she has forward facing eyes? I penalize one woke point.
There is a mixed race couple, black woman and white man, with a baby. I don't care, except if it is virtue-signalling by the director. This likely was sending a message, as it was the only couple. No additional penalty, but it solidifies my one woke point rating.
The bloody violence in this movie goes on and on. There is little relief. I started to dislike the experience by the middle of the movie. The plot isn't logical, so I'm left with nothing positive to say.
I love dystopian movies, but not Dredd. I need more substance, less gore.
Edit: In response to the review below, I have been fighting this battle since before you were born, and the battle started before I was born. DEI is rebranded Affirmative Action, which started in 1961 (thanks JFK). The term "woke" was popularized in 1962 by an essay by a Harlem writer.
In 1986, my team at work had an Affirmative Action meeting where we were lectured on how bad white people are and told that corporate policy is to hire blacks and other minorities even if they are a bit less qualified than the white candidates. In our group discussion, I said that's racist and unconstitutional. The next day the (Jewish) head of Affirmation Action drove an hour from HQ to bitch me out and play the anti-Semite card, even though I hadn't said anything about Jews (and indeed didn't have any negative feelings). I was just a summer intern, and I had only spoken the truth, WTF! I told him to get the hell out of my office, and to my surprise he did. Then I got bitched out by my coworker who was the Affirmative Action rep for our 9 person team (and Jewish).
Then in 1992, my new employer lost its contract renewal with NASA solely due to being white-owned, because NASA had started the (woke) policy of using minority-owned contractors if at all possible. NASA gave this highly valuable and important contract to a Communist Chinese "businessman". He was not a US citizen.
"Dredd" is from 1995, Hollywood was already woke, and the Chief Judge screams DEI. 1/5 is mild woke, not a full condemnation.
Created: 12-24-2024
Friedrich
THIS MOVIE IS NOT WOKE
This site allows anyone to rate woke content in a movie and, that, unfortunately brings the following case: Someone in these comments has no idea what WOKE culture is and rated this movie with woke content. I make it simple; it IS IMPOSSIBLE for this movie to be woke because it was not created under the DEI laws that currently apply. That said, I recommend any user of this site to read all comments before drawing a concrete conclusion in all cases, and also, if any artistic content catches your eye, watch it and judge it with your own judgment.
Created: 12-27-2024
