It's such a relief hearing someone smart take a bit of the air out of the Alex Garland bubble. I actually really enjoy Dredd, but it's the first film written by him that didn't make me feel like I was being hectored by a hack writer who thought he was masking his misplaced contempt for me as a viewer. Danny Boyle elevated 28 Days Later and Sunshine above their really derivative - and inexplicably also condescending - scripts. The fact that he isn't capable of carrying his high concepts into anything but middle-of-the-road slasher-thriller third acts is just sour-tasting icing on that particular cake.