What makes this stripped down, "realistic" reimagining of Judge Dredd so much more well received than other adaptions of otherwise surreal, colorful comic book series? I mean, this is essentially an interpretation of Judge Dredd in the Nolan Batman style that so many have come to be critical of, but Dredd is often loved as an example of an adaption done right.

I mean, obviously it's the perfect cop duo dynamic between Anderson and Dredd as characters that makes the story itself work so well, but I mean in a wider sense as an adaption of the Judge Dredd mythos as a whole.