10 Movies You Most Regret Not Seeing At The Cinema

2. Dredd (2012)

Completely chopping off the gangrenous limb that was 1995's Sylvester Stallone vehicle, Pete Travis' excellent big screen outing for comic character Judge Dredd is an orgy of ultra-violence. Utilising the trumped-up gimmick of stereoscopy to unusually impressive effect, Dredd is a movie that provides a deafening cacophony of sounds and pictures, complete with some shrewd visual tricks. Travis' film feels epic, whilst maintaining the atmosphere of a grubby little action movie. Its dramatic battles are at home on the big screen, but it is in its more unusual moments that Dredd really stakes its claim to appear on this list. Due to the presence of the film's fictional narcotic "Slo-Mo", scenes in Dredd are regularly shown to unfold in excruciatingly slow motion. This is when some real directorial flair arises as bullets puncture flesh and bone, with blood even splattering outside the frame in one delightfully unexpected moment. The shock value of that violence is diluted by a move to the smaller screen, with the reduced scale shedding much of the impact and invention. Dredd only made around $35m at the global box office, but has received a real boost on home media formats. It's a shame that so many people will discover the film without ever getting the opportunity to experience it in a cinema.