Dredd - Digital HD [4K UHD]

Really good movie to watch!!! Karl Urbane really does it justice in this movie as Dredd! Not like the one with Stallone …”I am the Law!!!” Geeeeze …..well if he meant it as an action comedy, I’ll give him that …..liked him better in Demolition Man.The Dredd in this movie is as serious as a freaking heart attack. A well done movie

I like Sly. He's done some good work in his years. I don't think he's a good actor per say, but a lot of his films are fun to watch.Judge Dredd, is not one of those films. It's one of the worst, if not the worst, film he's ever made. This is -not- a remake or reboot of that film. It intentionally had nothing to do with it and was made to correct the offense that film was for fans of Judge Dredd, which is a comic book.It get's everything right. The bad one liners, the hyper violent gore, and everything about this film is exactly what it should be. This was made by a fan of the character who knows the source material and did a wonderful job bringing it to life. The absence of the SF cuss "Drokk" is notable, but easily ignored. It doesn't appear in every issue of the comic, so it's not out of place that he doesn't say it in the film. Would have been a nice nod to fans to put it in there though, but this film does enough right that it's easily forgiven.It's perfectly okay to not like the film, but people should understand that the film is exactly what it supposed to be, what it should be, in every way. This is what Judge Dredd is and how he should be portrayed. If you didn't like it, it's not because there's something wrong with the film. It's because you're not a fan of this character, because this movie gets everything right.Judge Dredd is a comic book that was published in the British Anthology series 2000 AD and was first in it's pages in 1977 in the second issue of the anthology. He was written as an even more extreme and futuristic version of Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry series, and his character was modeled after the leather clad biker on the Deathrace 2000 movie poster. He's essentially the Punisher with a badge and legal authority, and not the nice Thomas Jane version.He's not Sylvester Stallone, was never intended to be, and does not ever take his helmet off. In the original comic even when he's shown at home in his off time he's wearing it. He did remove it in one issue, but the reader never sees his face, and the people in the comic that do are horrified and disgusted, to the point of being violently sick.He's essentially a political satire from the 1970s. An extreme example pointing out the perceived flaws of the British justice system in the period. The comic became popular in the 80s and has been going strong ever since. Dredd is probably the most famous comic British comic book character in the world.This film was made by a fan of that comic with a deep love and understanding of the source. They knew what they were doing, got so many details right, and this is without doubt one of the best comic book adaptions ever made. Sin City is possibly the only film I can think of that does better, and that's because it's word for word and frame for frame the same as the comic. Every panel in Sin City is a frame in the film version.Reviewers that don't like it because it's violent, gory, brutish, and crude are making valid criticisms. If you're not into that sort of thing you're not going to like this film. Avoid it. Though, why someone who doesn't like those things is watching an R rated action film is beyond me. I'm left wondering what they were expecting it to be exactly.However, the hundreds of people who seem to think this is a bad remake of a Sly Stallone film are simply ignorant and should be ignored. This was intentionally made to have nothing to do with that film and was created to make up for everything that movie got wrong for fans of the character. It accomplished that amazingly well.This movie gets five stars from me. It's exactly what a comic book adaption should be. It's extremely true to the source material, and gets the details right. As a fan of the original comic, this film blew me away. It's a better comic adaption than anything put out by Marvel or DC in the last ten years. Not necessarily a better movie and certainly not a more popular one, but as an adaption that isn't word for word and frame for frame the same as the original comic, it's as true to the source as a comic book movie adaption can possible to be.

Dredd is a movie that deserved a franchise. The 4K ver. is mind blowing.

Full disclosure: I came at this film as a die-hard fan of the Stallone vehicle. Maligned as it is, it offered a very faithful interpretation of the Judge Dredd universe, megacities, cursed earth, and all. In fact it is my belief that Stallone's Judge Dredd would be remembered fondly to this day had it not totally screwed up Judge Dredd himself. Stallone's Dredd kisses girls, takes off his hat, and generally behaves nothing like his comic book namesake.So for many fans, the tension for Dredd was the same. Will Judge Dredd be right? I'm happy to report that yes, Dredd is spot on. Carl Urban scowls, grimaces, does absolutely nothing to be appealing, and doesn't even take off his face-obstructing helmet when he's been shot through with armor-piercing ammunition. In fact the only field judge in the film who DOES show her face is Judge Anderson because hey, it would be a crime to cover up Olivia Thirlby. Speaking of which, good news there! Thirlby's Anderson brings the beloved supporting character (and sometimes miniseries star) to life with spunk and verve, and is a more than competent foil to both Dredd and the lowlifes they must battle.As much as this film improves on its predecessor's depiction of Dredd, however, its depiction of Megacity 1 veers far further off. This megacity is a much more believable place, an endless smoggy sea of skyscrapers and gridlock that stretches on forever, studded by Megablocks; enormous arcologies packed with far more people than they should hold. It's a minimalist, realistic place that suggests Gotham City or Equilibrium, and frankly I didn't care for it at first blush. But it grew on me; this film had neither the money for a more fanciful Megacity 1, nor the inclination. This is a SERIOUS Dredd film, ripped more from the pages of the later comics than from the camp 70s material that spawned the Stallone picture.The grit carries over into all respects of the property. Dredd's armor and motorcycle are toned down and believably futuristic; the technology of the world is less "world of tomorrow" and more "next decade," and the Peach Trees megablock in which the film takes place is no futuristic spire or industrial nightmare, but a bunkeresque mashup of prison and council-housing. The use of colors and lighting both inside and out to induce loneliness and claustrophobia is more than a little reminiscent of the unlicensed 2000 AD film Hardware, which will please most fans of 2000 AD or British sci fi in general. All of this urban wasteland is underscored by a throbbing, buzzing electronic soundtrack that pitches and falls as the film moves along, but never quite disappears.The plot is paper thin but totally workable. Dredd and Anderson learn of a drug operation stemming from a particularly lawless megablock and move in to establish law and order. They soon find themselves trapped with the building's blast doors on one side and the cutthroat Ma Ma clan on the other. The gang's eponymous crime lord is played by Lena Headey, who is more or less channeling Cersei Lannister on a lazy weekend for the role, with good success. What ensues is a solid movie's worth of crazy gun battles with horribly graphic results. In its violence this movie closes in more on its source material, capturing the crazy kind of world Dredd inhabits- life is cheap, death only closes a mall for a half hour, and the police are equally likely to ticket you, imprison you for life, or shoot you in the face.The bottom line is that while this film does not capture the Dredd universe as vividly as the Stallone movie, it still gets the gist and it makes far better use of the characters. Here we finally have Dredd as the force of nature he is meant to be- neither good nor evil, a faceless avatar of his world's authoritarian law, destroying all those who break it purely on principle. We empathize with Dredd and Anderson, not because they are virtuous, but because the enemies they slay in such huge numbers are so much WORSE. Acting as a prequel of sorts to the books, and working with very little money, this movie still succeeds and would be a great basis for sequels. However this is probably not to be as it frankly lost money hand over fist. This is a crying shame as it is a stark, surprising sci-fi action yarn that will at least intrigue any fans of the comic or genre.The picture on blu ray is quite good, and the audio is deep and clear as a mountain stream. Points are docked for the opening trailers, which must be skipped manually (thanks, Lions' Gate) but there are a wealth of good extras including a pretty solid interview with many of the artists and writers to work on Dredd over the decades.