20 Best Bad-Ass Film Quotes Of 2012

9. "You betray the law, you betray the city, judgement is death."

Dredd 3D Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) €“ Dredd 3D It would have been incredibly easy to just throw in Dredd's €œI am the law€ moment from his speech to the inhabitants of Peach Trees, but Dredd's succinct summation of the state of play in his dystopian future world felt more poetic and more hard-hitting even than the iconic phrase in Pete Travis' adaptation. 10. "I am fate with a badge and a gun, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police." Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) €“ End Of Watch And the perfect bed-fellow for Dredd's iron-fist of rule is the sentiment echoed in the surprisingly brilliant End of Watch, which proved that it is still wholly possible to make successful and engaging police movies, and that film-making €œgimmicks€ still have a place in mainstream, critically acclaimed cinema.
 
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