On the one hand, there’s a revenge thriller with shootouts, car chases, detective work, and a dynamite climax. On the other, there’s a woefully underwritten love story that can’t think of anything else but to have the leads stare at each other. And not the meaningful kind of staring either — Farrell spends about five-eighths of the flick with this sad/confused expression that looks like he caught his mother in bed with a clown.

Farrell plays Victor, an up-and-comer in a gang led by Alphonse (Terrence Howard). What the gang actually does is not entirely clear, but they appear to be connected to a cocaine-dealing group of British-Jamaicans, at least until Alphonse suspects them of assassinating one of his men and orders the whole lot killed. In the ensuing shoot-out, Victor is wounded, and we follow him back to his ramshackle highrise apartment, where he spends his days watching videos of his wife and kid and ogling the girl in the next building over (Noomi Rapace).

The girl, Beatrice, lives with her somewhat hard-of-hearing mother (Isabelle Huppert) and is haunted by the scars on her face left by a car accident with a drunk driver. She and Victor share pregnant waves to each other until Bea works up the courage to ask Vic out.

Everyone remembers Stallone’s Judge Dredd. Some remember it fondly, and some not so much, but it’s still back there in our minds. Now, fans of the original graphic novel are getting the chance to erase Stallone, Lane, and Schneider from our memories as a brand new Judge Dredd is in the works, this time simply titled Dredd. (image after jump)

Starring Star Trek’s Karl Urban as the titular Dredd, and American Dreams’ Olivia Thirlby as Cassandra Anderson, the film is definitely looking to skew younger, or at least younger than Stallone and Arman Assante. You can also expect to see a much darker film, as 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland is taking on the script.

The production has been kept pretty secret for the most part, until now. The very first image from a costume test of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd was recently posted online, and it looks…..almost identical to the original. This is fine, because everyone who saw the original film knows that the costumes were the least of the problems (we’re looking at you, Schneider).

Either way, you can check out the image after the jump, and be sure to keep an ear out as production continues on Dredd in the UK and we get a bit more of a look at this new, darker reboot.

This week on The Flickcast Chris and Matt are on duty and discussing, dissecting and, in some cases, dissing some new movies, TV shows, comics, games and geek stuff. Among the topics this week are more on The Walking Dead, the debut of Conan’s new talk show, upcoming films Skyline and Friends with Benefits, George Lucas and the new Force Unleashed II video game, the Back to the Future Trilogy on Blu-ray and the bizarreness of Robert Altman’s 1980 film Popeye.

Of course, the guys also made new picks for your enjoyment this week including Matt’s pick of the drama spoof Fatal Instinct, featuring Armand Assante and Sherylin Fenn, and Chris’ double pick of Call of Duty: Black Ops and the upcoming Skyline, which hits theaters this Friday.

As always, if you have comments, questions, critiques, offers of sponsorship or whatever, feel free to hit us up in the comments, on Twitter, at Facebook and MySpace or via email.

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