#peter travis

Absolutely spectacular. Action movies are often mindless excuses for things to explode on screen. Boom. Oh look, fire. It is only afterwards that we think to ourselves, hold on, why did they do it like that? Surely that guy should have just done this and then it would have been much easier. In Dredd, however, you have no chance to think any of this. That is because Peter Travis chose not to go down the route of The Hunger Games and tone down the graphic violence. Instead, he cranks it up to the level where you think to yourself, yeah, that was probably the best thing to do in that situation. It doesn't glorify violence a much as make it appear perfectly practical and a sensible reaction to the situation. See that guy over there? Well, you should probably just shoot him rather than... oh. oh, you just did. OK, fair enough. Carry on. Another accomplishment comes down to Alex Garland - Yes, the same guy who wrote The Beach and the screenplay to Never Let Me Go. Garland resists the urge to include a scene where 'character' is brought to the surface through some personal sob story or confession. Instead, Dredd never takes off his helmet - both literally and figuratively. His character is the law and he will be enacted. You want to know Dredd? Just watch him work, because that is all you need to know. This shouldn't work. The result should be a flat, uninteresting character who becomes just a excuse for those on screen explosions mentioned before. But in Dredd, the audience ends up reading into every action; So he killed all those guys and then stunned those two? Hmmm, I guess that must mean... And it actually works brilliantly well. Dredd takes a bunch of cliches from the genre and somehow comes up with a movie that shows everybody else how it should really be done. Just like the Judge himself, this film is as close to perfection as it comes

Travis started with the hips as the body's stable point, not the waist, and reasoned aesthetically that anything worn on the hips couldn't be more than three inches (7.6 centimetres) wide. Thus, the Speedo brief was born.

I don't really know anything about this movie or Judge Dredd, but it looks interesting. And, maybe a little corny.