Great review, that's really interesting about the prevalence and strength of the female characters. The point where I became sold on the strength of the writing was that at the exact point where I was really noticing that Anderson isn't wearing a helmet, Dredd wryly points it out.

The only complaint I had walking out was in actual fact a style choice so I sort of disagree with you there. For some reason I found the repetitive Slo-Mo sequences got on my nerves. I can see that it was an important link between the criminals at the beginning and Ma-Ma, but the bit with her in the bath especially, whilst beautiful, had me frustrated. I just felt it went on for too long without really showing us anything. Shame too, because in the later sequences it was used to much greater effect - but by that point I had become to dislike it's agonisingly slowness.