DREDD (2012)

Set way off in the future after nuclear war has fucked up everything, Mega-City One takes up pretty much all of New England and has a population of 800 million people.  Yikes!  As you can imagine, life is pretty shitty, especially for people who live in the gigantic 200-story slum towers.  One of the worst of these high-rise ghettos is Peach Trees which is controlled by a drug lord named "Ma-Ma".  Dredd and his brand new trainee, Anderson, go to investigate a triple murder only to get locked inside and hunted by Ma-Ma's ruthless and heavily-armed gang.

I'm not quite sure why DREDD bombed so bad at the box office (North America $13m vs. a $30m - $45m budget), but it did.  Which is a shame, because DREDD is a fun, no-nonsense action movie that starts out with a bang and keeps the action going the entire film. Tons of action, nice looking sets, non-distracting CG, quick pace, bright colours, cool use of slow-motion, fun story, good acting, Cersei from "Game of Thrones", surprising amount of blood.

Definitely worth checking out if you're an action fan. If they ever make a Part 2, I'll watch the fuck out of it!

Same source material - Judge Dredd (1995)