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Anyone who remembers the first time they bought Judge Dredd to the big screen will know what a train wreck it was. The makers of that film misunderstood what character Dredd was and gave us a film where he takes his helmet off, wisecracks and gets the girl at the end. They didn't capture the grim crime-ridden cesspool that was Mega City One and they gave us comedic relief in the form of Rob Schneider. Thad film was a mash-up of poor action, poor scripting, muddled plot and a complete lack of grit. I don't think it was Sylvester Stallone's fault - he wasn't the right choice for the role.I suspect that a vast number of the people who saw the 90's Dredd may have been put of a new interpretation of the Lawman based on that film. And it's no wonder as the film not only alienated fans of the comic but it also made for a mediocre experience for newcomers.This time we were promised a grittier and more serious take on the material. Dredd would be an uncompromising force waging war on the criminal underbelly of Mega City One. And that's basically what we got. We see Dredd in action pretty much right from the start when a small gang of criminals are driving erratically through traffic whilst under the influence of Slo-Mo - a new drug that lets it users experience a state of euphoria for a few minutes where even the passage of time to have slowed down dramatically for those under the influence. This is the new drug of Mega city One.And so begins what is essentially a day in the life of Mega City One's toughest and most dedicated law man. He is partnered up with a new rookie Judge called Anderson, whom despite having failed her Judges entry exam she is deemed worthy of a final practical assessment due to her strong psychic abilities. As Mega City One is so rife with crime that the Judges cannot respond to every incident they must use their judgement to choose the most serious crime to respond to. Having picked a triple homicide at one of the Mega City Blocks which is run by a crime lord called Ma Ma we get to see the pair in action up against all manner of criminal low lifes who live in the block. After a quick drugs bust on an apartment they find one whom Anderson thinks had a hand in the grisly triple homicide and Dredd decides he needs to be taken in for questioning. It is implied that the questioning process will get answers from him. As they leave the building is placed on complete lockdown, trapping the judges with their suspect inside the block. With no way in or out its a tense fight for survival between the Judges and a small city sized block rife with criminals.Dredd is a very gritty film. The violence levels are almost off the scale (it's comparable to Stallones 2008 Rambo film). The film gives us a visual glimpse of what Slo-Mo users experience leading to one exceptionally graphic gunfight between drug users and the Judges. The films creators have gone a long way to demonstrate how peoples skin and bodies reacts to the impact of gunshots and explosions which may or may not put off a few people. There is also a very high level of implied violence where a vicious act is described and we get a brief bloody flash of it, which makes the film feel even more bloody and violent than it already is. If you're cool with the idea that it's just entertainment and special effects then you'll be okay watching Dredd.The plot of the film is pretty straightforward, with no real surprises or unexpected twists. That suits the film well as it is a character driven story and the main point is that you want to see the Judges in action, not solving some conflicting personal dilemma. Karl Urban gives us the Dredd we should have on-screen. A single minded and dedicated dispenser of justice. There are no shades of grey with Dredd - You're either innocent or guilty and if you're the latter then he's the man to deal with it. He's been doing his job for many years and he's seen it all. We get no character development with Dredd, and nor should we. You can't portray someone who is essentially a single minded hammer of justice as indecisive or prone to whims or compassion. Stallone's take on Dredd started off meaning well but later tried to make him more and more human as the film went on. Karl Urban plays him like Clint Eastwood in one of his early Sergio Leone films, with a gravely, rasping voice to match. And he never takes his helmet off.Judge Anderson is the opposite Dredd's personality. Although she understands the ideal that Dredd personifies in a crime ridden city, she is younger, less experienced and more compassionate. It is through her that we get an introduction to the lives of Judges by being thrown in at the deep end with her. Dredds vast experience gives him an unflinching and emotionless process of decision making when it comes to justice; and no matter how great a character he is I think the film would be less interesting if it just concentrated on him. The character development is wisely focused on the doe eyed Anderson and Olivia Thirlby plays it perfectly.Lena Headey plays the crime lord Ma Ma, an ex-prostitute with a scarred face who has ruthlessly murdered her way to the top of the criminal pile in the block. There is no vanity or Bond Villain genius to this character. Only greed and a similar single minded ruthlessness to Dredds when it comes to decision making. She is where she is because she is always willing to do what's necessary to show who's in charge.Dredd is not a complicated film by any means, but the simplistic plot serves as a perfect vehicle to not only introduce us to the word, but also to give us a quick and effective storyline for plenty of gory action. The gritty, urban setting shows us how far society has fallen with most of the population living in giant slum-like tower blocks. There are too few Judges to deal with the crime and the criminals are more akin to Mexican Cartels than Italian Mafioso, which is why the cold and calculated violent justice that Dredd dispenses never seems to be too far out of place. He is simply the unstoppable and incorruptible force that at times feels absolutely necessary for dealing with the vermin in the city. If you like action films and don't mind plenty of gore then give it a shot - you won't be disappointed. This film is low on one liners, high on adrenaline and doesn't have a dull moment in it. A perfect balance of simple plot and loads of gunfire in the name of entertainment.I've heard talk of this film being very similar to the Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption. Whilst the plots are remarkably similar, both films feel very different. The Raid has a lot more action and fighting, whilst Dredd is a lot more gorier. It's worth watching the two as they are both fine films but I can't see one being a direct rip off of the other. If you want to make comparisons then another film about someone getting stuck in a building full of criminals is Die Hard, and even that will have it influences in earlier films.

Let me begin by saying I've been a fan of Judge Dredd and 2000ad since 1977. I love Joe Dredd. He's like a member of my own family. I feel I know him pretty drokkin' well. So when I watched the Stallone film version in the cinema in 1995, I felt like gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon afterwards and screaming to Grud almighty outside the cinema to give me back the 96 minutes of life that had been cruelly stolen from me.What I'm trying to say is that I had some rather solid ideas about what a Dredd movie should have been like. And while Danny Cannon's version was superficially close to the comics aesthetically, it failed miserably in every other area, which just goes to show that even with a $90 million budget (about $135m in today's money), Hollywood can completely drokk up a project.I saw some of the new Dredd movie's production photos last year and thought, "They're going to do it again. They're going to really mess it up this time." I thought Karl Urban's head looked too small for the helmet (or maybe the helmet was too big for Karl Urban's head?). I thought the Lawmaster bike looked stupid and the judge that sat astride it looked fat. I thought the uniform just looked...wrong. Where's the bloody chain? Why's he got a massive collar? And Dredd has got facial hair?! Dredd HATES facial hair, as poor Judge Lopez would testify from the Judge Child quest. ("It's my moustache, isn't it?") I thought the Justice Department vehicles looked cheap and tatty and oh so very 20th century. The city blocks were about three miles apart. And Ma-Ma? Who the drokk is Ma-Ma? She wasn't in the comics either. The trailer looked OK, nothing special. I'd already seen The Raid: Redemption at that point and loved it, so the negative vibes about similarities between the two films, whether accidental or deliberate, didn't sit well with me.So, as a die-hard Judge Dredd fan, I went to see the new movie with a certain trepidation.I was completely blown away. It took an independent film company (independent from Hollywood, anyway) to make a film about my favourite futuristic lawman that embodied everything I liked about the character from the comics, but just didn't know it. Mega-City One looked different from the comics, sure, but in this film it is one hell of a scary place. Dirty, crime-infested, murderous, uncaring, bleak and over-populated, this was the first dystopic future city that I could actually believe in, mainly because it closely resembled an amped-up modern-day metropolis. The city blocks' sheer scale is unexpectedly enhanced, not diminished, by distancing them from each other, and setting them amongst skyscraper slums and shanty towns that grow like fungus at the bases of the mega-blocks. The few shots we see of the sprawling megalopolis are smog-ridden, daylight views, not the acid-rain drenched, nighttime Blade Runner-inspired aesthetic as seen ad-nauseum in so many sci-fi films and pop videos since 1982 (including the 1995 Judge Dredd movie). The vehicles that make their way over the twisting junctions and overpasses are all very much alike; cookie-cutter cars for a bored populace that needs simply to get around, resembling the Duroplast Trabant cars of Communist East Germany. There are a few flying vehicles, their mystique emphasised by their sheer infrequency. Everything has a decidedly lo-tech feel, appropriate perhaps for an America that has, at some point in its recent past, just about survived some kind of nuclear exchange with another superpower. The Judges are portrayed as an undermanned, overwhelmed law enforcement agency, a far cry from the sprawling, tech-dependent organisation of the comics.As for the performances of the actors, I cannot fault even one. Karl Urban is magnificent as the titular lawman, playing it completely straight, though not without a hint of Dredd's trademark grim humour. His physical acting is superb, no mean feat considering you don't see his eyes once. Olivia Thirlby is entirely believable as a rookie psychic Judge Anderson, acting as our guide in this strange new world as well as giving a glimmer of hope in the meat-grinder (as the treacherous Judge Lex describes it) that is Mega-City One. Lena Headey is great as bad guy Ma-Ma with her cold, awful detachment from the rest of the human race. Also of note are Domhnall Gleeson as the unnamed "clan techie", who portrays a very sympathetic whipped dog character, and Wood Harris as the cold-blooded Kay, who has his sights set on rising higher up the ranks Ma-Ma's murderous clan.The effects are great as well. A lot has been said of the film's "slo-mo" sequences, with their enhanced colours and hypnotising beauty and these are undoubtedly lovely, if a little gimmicky at times. But the real effects, I feel, were the more invisible ones - the seamless blending of a futuristic metropolis with modern-day Jo'burg, where the movie was shot; the special make-up effects of perps getting their brains blown out; the little touches like the unmanned Justice Dept. drones that dot the smoggy sky every once in a while.All these things coupled with a tight, uncompromising script from Alex Garland make Dredd what it is - a gem of a movie that deserved far greater box-office success than it garnered. It's a shame that Hollywood snobbery lauds drivel like The Artist and Lincoln while genre fare like Dredd goes practically unnoticed, not even making back its meagre $45m budget. But the good news is that when Dredd was released on DVD in the UK on 14th January, it sold out in many UK stores. I know, because I didn't manage to get a copy until 19th January! So hopefully, a more fully realised sequel could be a real possibility. But even if it doesn't get made, Dredd stands as one of my firm favourites of 2012, a film that is worthy of such a wonderful character and one that will eclipse that awful Stallone effort of 1995. To paraphrase a conversation from the film, "You know how many good Judge Dredd films there are?""Well, you got one now."

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The sound quality of Dolby Atmos is incredible

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One of my favorite movies and I somehow found a cheap movie projector that had 3d function so this was a movie i wanted to experience.Really worth the money, the effects wasnt made for 3d but they did a great job. Recommended!

Nel lontano 2012 è uscito questo reboot del film che vede come protagonista Dredd, il giudice che fa da giuria, verdetto e sentenza sul campo! Il film è uscito solo nel 2019 in Home Video in Italia mentre negli altri paesi è uscito nelle sale cinematografiche normalmente, dico normalmente perché si sa che l'Italia è il terzo mondo in fatto di cinema, i film negli altri paesi vengono distribuiti anche in 4K mentre in Italia non sempre e non tutti! Negli altri paesi le tracce sono minimo Master Audio HD 7.1 per non parlare del Dolby Atmos, da noi si arriva ad un penoso 5.1. Però questo film ha delle immagini spettacolari! Curatissimo in ogni sua parte, impatto visivo strabiliante ed esaltante, girato benissimo sembra addirittura un 3D in certe scene! La trama è esaltante! Il ritmo incalzante! Adrenalinico! Ho deciso che doveva far parte della mia collezione fanta/action ed ora è mio per davvero! Adesso è uscito anche in 4K HDR per mano della Eagle Pictures con la collana 4Kult e l'ho preso al volo (prenotato in realtà perché ufficialmente esce il 06.07.2022), dunque vi saprò dire di più quando l'avrò ricevuto. Se verrà mantenuta la qualità video (come spero) che ho potuto assaporare nella versione Blu-ray Disc del 2019 superandola, la Eagle Pictures, mi avrà fatto un regalo insperato! La Eagle Pictures distribuisce i suoi film 4K con il Dolby Vision dunque il top! La qualità audio, stando alle specifiche, resta la stessa, forse con qualche hz in più ma comunque l'audio già lo conosco ed è davvero buono, l'unica mia incognita per adesso è la qualità video, ho altri film in Dolby Vision con una qualità spettacolare, spero lo sia anche questa versione 4Kult! Edit del 26.07.2022: come promesso ecco le foto della versione 4K HDR! Il film in 4K non ha deluso le mie aspettative in quanto la qualità video è superlativa ed è superiore ad ogni mia aspettativa, l'audio è pressoché lo stesso molto ben bilanciato e pompato sebbene sia un DTS Master Audio True HD 5.1 sia inglese sia italiano! La custodia di cartone in rilievo 3D mostra di profilo Dredd che impugna una arma in mano. Dentro troviamo la custodia vera e propria Elite due posti con due dischi: uno BD 2K; uno BD 4K. All'interno c'è una card numerata fino a 1000 (tiratura limitata)! A me è toccata la numero 830 sebbene abbia ricevuto il film esattamente il giorno dell'uscita ossia il 06.07.2022! C'è anche un libretto con il fumetto di Dredd che arricchisce il film, per i collezionisti è una vera chicca! Curatissimo in ogni minimo particolare, davvero un prodotto per pochi eletti! Non posso che consigliare a tutti di passare alla edizione 4Kult! Grazie Eagle Pictures!