Dredd - Digital HD [4K UHD]

Just a heads up, I'm writing this review as someone who hasn't read the comics or seen the Stallone movie. In fact, all I knew about this franchise beforehand was that the Stallone movie was awful. But as a general movie lover and fan of Karl Urban and Lena Headey, I had hopes that it would at least be fun to watch and have nice visuals. I never expected to be completely blown away. I saw this film in theaters twice, once on opening weekend and again a couple weeks later in 3D. After I saw it the first time, I kept thinking about how good it was and my love for it grew in retrospect until I saw it again. And even the second time, with all my built up appreciation for it, I picked up on more subtleties and loved it more. Plot wise, the movie is great. Nothing out of this world but still engaging and entertaining without falling flat or being cliche. What I love about it is that there aren't too many twists. It's even slightly predictable, which normally I'd think is faulty, but it really works to Dredd's advantage. Because it completely immerses you in the experience. What this movie does extremely well is bring you into Mega City One's atmosphere and lets you experience the suspense. It's a high stakes cat-and-mouse story line with a concise but intriguing backstory, a temperamental villain with a tendency for extreme violence, and completely ridiculous odds against our heroes. What makes it so special is the extreme scale. This is a city that houses 800 million people (that's almost three times the entire population of the US) in a stretch of land from Washington D.C. to New York. This is a manhunt inside Peach Trees, a half-mile high building the size of a city block. This is two people fighting for their lives and for order in a place where people are either trying to kill them, or couldn't care less what happens to them. What really shines in this movie is the characterization. We have Dredd, the title character, who strictly sticks to regulations and will take any measure to make sure his job gets done. Anderson, a psychic Judge hopeful, on a pass or fail test in the field. And Ma-Ma, a psychotic gang leader who wants Dredd and Anderson dead at any cost. What I love about these characters is that they are extremists in an extreme world. They know the stakes, they understand the risks they take, and they have strong convictions about how the world should work. Each of them backs every action they take 150%. No hesitation, no questions. Another thing that makes the characters of Dredd so special is that the female characters are treated no differently than the male characters, which I find to be especially important. There are so many films where female characters exist solely to provide character development for male protagonists, or as romantic interests, or as background stories. But in Dredd, they steal the show. Ma-Ma is the most powerful criminal in Peach Trees, the most dangerous leader of the most dangerous gang. She is the law of her world and she will take no prisoners. Anderson is an up-and-comer, she's not even a Judge, but she gets results Dredd wouldn't be able to obtain. She has no qualms about doing her job and the brutality it entails. And get this: her uniform is stylistically and fundamentally exactly the same as Dredd's. They are equals. I'm actually angry. I'm angry this movie barely made any money, because it's one of the best films I've seen this year. Top Five, easily. And I'm excited to own it because now I can sit down everyone I know, show it to them, and have them love it, too.

This is very different from the Sylvester Stallone hit, and I loved it. Fast paced, lots of action, and well done. As with the comic books, Judge Dredd is not seen with his helmet off, and the actor playing him was well cast for the role. The city landscape makes it more realistic than the older movie, and the special effects worked well.

The world of MegaCity started in a comic book series called "2000 A.D." in 1979 as a black & white ink outline style. It was a British/Spanish artist's idea to create a new sci-fi comic off the heels of '77's Star Wars craze, because Sci-Fi was not selling well in the comic market. The fan-favorite character in the comic was "Judge Dredd," labeled as the "Judge, Jury, and Executioner" in what the Brits (emphasis on Brits) felt as a "right-wing" Fascist Police State mentality at the time. (Fascism is more of a Left-wing thing, actually...Big Government telling you what to do and how to act, etc) But anyway, some of the uniform and symbols of the Judges and Command Central were big Eagles, which have been symbols of European Fascism thru-out the centuries (Roman, Nazis, and to an extension America.) The stories in 2000 A.D. and Judge Dredd have generally been more about everyday life in MegaCity and the surrounding Cursed Earth areas, rather than just on Judge Dredd, so the stories are pretty much endless. Dredd is just there to clean up the mess. Which leads us to the story portrayed in this 2012 Dredd rebbot film. In Dredd 3D, we have a MegaBlock (a 200-story cubical shaped towering mass of concrete with a open central core for sunlight and ventilation purposes surrounded by businesses and slummy apartments) called 'Peachtrees,' that is being run by the Ma.Ma Clan. A drug clan ran by Lena Heady's character whose drug of choice is Slo-Mo (a drug that slows your brain's perception of time down to 1% of real time.) Their rule is ruthless and involves some very graphic actions of murdering poor folks that get in their way. Well, in a Crime Call to the Judges that involves the murder of 3 Judges in Peachtrees, sends Dredd and his new female Rookie Judge into this MegaBlock to investigate. Well, to make a long story short. The Ma.Ma Clan lock-down the MegaBlock, trapping Dredd and his partner inside, with a bounty on their head. So the rest of the film involves them trying to get out and killing as any bad guys as they need to. Think Die Hard with an all-purpose hi-tech 9mm auto-pistol. But what makes this Dredd so superior to Stallone's '95 outing, is that it adheres to the dark and gritty atmosphere of the comics, along with a bright, but gloomy (and grainy) comic book color palette, akin to the Ray Stevenson "Punisher: Warzone" film. This film actually looks like you're watching a live-action motion comic. And quite frankly, it works brilliantly. The slow-mo parts (4000 fps) also emphasize this comic book feel. Unlike the '95 film, this one absolutely deserves a follow-up....telling an all-new story, as this story wraps up with the death of the villian. I'd love to see them go into the Cursed Earth Saga. That'd be cool as hell. Maybe not in the next film, but perhaps in a 3rd if this iteration goes that far.

Goedkoop voor 4k en blu ray

Awesome flick and a great 4K transfer! Region unlocked, so it plays on any 4K player worldwide to boot!

FOR - Gloriously uncomplicated, gripping tale told with ruthless authority. AGAINST - Graphic violence simply NEVER lets up. SUM UP - Best remake in a generation, finally worthy of the original spirt. Assumimg most of us are familiar with the charactarisation, lets fast foward to how this sets up. Essentially this is Denzels' training day formula retold in MEGA CITY 1 with Karl Urban using ROBOCOP Robocop (Special Edition)[DVD] [1988 ] (80's) as his template for the bitten Judge mentor. Thirlby is alongside as his soberly contemplative rookie. Reluctantly tied together for a day they are presented as opposition to Ma-Ma the merciless as manifested by Lena Headey. There is a refelection of the 70's ASSAULT ON PRECINT 13 Assault On Precinct 13 [DVD ]with its setup of law enforcement officers trying to escape from "their own" turf. IS IT WORTH WATCHING? ABSOLUTELY! The visuals are "dark" and dystopian, captured vividly with plenty of lens flare and for once appropriate use of slo-mo (SIC). The acting is faithful to the genre and the concept and easily up to the mark by all. Apart from DREDD's own weapon the tech is familiar and restrained and largely takes a back seat, but cirtically means this will date slowly. This is an all-out action movie for those who like their action hardened rather than accessible. No-one should be under any illusions of compromising accuracy for the sake of taste. Nothing is spared to the immagination although the relentless energy of the movie can become wearisome (there is only so much shooting you can take......surely?). The pacing is otherwise perfect with little wasted fat along the fairly straightforward journey. Credit is deserved for the simplicity of a film that remains gripping simply because of the desire to see how it finally connects to the innevitable conclusion. It delivers leaving few (relevant) plotholes. Start to finish we never deviate from the obvious in a movie that avoids the trap of being "clever" in its use of reveals and subplots. It gets straight to the point from the off and stays focused with scalpel-like accuracy throughout. WHAT ABOUT US FANS? I believe this will finally appease those comic book fans still dissapointed by STALLONE'S Judge Dredd [DVD] [1995 ]misguided schlock. DO YOU BUY OR RENT OR FREEVIEW? DREDD has Huge replay potential and definately worth a place in your permanent collection. Looks like a future, uncomfortably close to the present - but then we are now well past 2000AD.

Normally German and Italian UHD disks pick up your region when playing disks and display the menu in English. Not the case on this disk. All in German. But I guess it's very cheap.

este dvd es una maravilla. el juez dredd sabe como hay que combatir el mal y el terror, siendo implacable y sin vacilación ni mostrar piedad. una pena que por culpa de un marketing repugnante no se diera a conocer la pelicula en 2012 y tuviera tan baja taquilla