Dredd 3D

Comic book supercop Judge Dredd has never been a character whose city defines him. He was created to be far more enigmatic than that, a hard-line law enforcer whose embodiment of a faceless future justice system is perfectly symbolized by the visored biker helmet he always wears. That said, his exploits as one-man judge, jury, and executioner have been very much defined by Mega-City One, a post-apocalyptic urban crush of 800 million (said to incorporate Boston, lucky us). In the British-published cult comics, it’s a loopily rendered, punk-subversive badland whose out-there inhabitants are as big a draw as the hero. “RoboCop” always felt like it owed those stories a debt.