Dredd [3D Blu-ray/Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet]

For starters, I am a huge JD fan, which made me excited and also worried about this second attempt at bringing him and his world to the big screen. Dredd stands as a stark example of how clear storytelling and a simple plot can make an extraordinary film. The laughable Stallone film tried to shoe horn in too many concepts from the 30+ year history of the character. Dredd, on the other hand, focused purely on the meat of the character, giving only small glimpses of the sprawling universe he inhabits. Judge Dredd may seem hollow and robotic to new comers, but this is exactly why his character is so beloved. The film makers do a great service to the character, and Karl Urban's performance helps to solidify this. I can only smile when reading irate reviews hammering the lack of character development and robotic acting. The reviewers obviously don't understand. There is a reason why JD never takes his helmet off. He is meant to be faceless. He is the one solid and reliable rock in the sea of crazy that is the far future. The one drawback is that this film is very violent, and if you aren't prepared for it you will be turned off fairly quickly. It also makes great use of slow motion to capture and juxtapose the action from different viewpoints. This gives the action scenes a strange pace, but I felt it to be perfectly suited to the plot. It only felt overdone during a couple of sequences. Speaking of plot, this film has taken some knocks because of a thin plot. I find this funny considering how paper thin most movie plots are when compared to novels and comics. The Hobbit is a movie about a long journey, and is great because of what happens along the way and what obstacles they have to overcome. This movie is essentially a day in the life of Judge Dredd, and is about his journey to stop and apprehend a gang leader. It is great because of what happens along the way and what obstacles he must overcome. A simple, clearly stated plot with great story telling wrapped around it is what you will find in this film if you give it a chance. I did, even with my fear of past failures, and I loved it. I don't like the Ultraviolet service, but this disc also has an iTunes compatible download. If there is a drawback, then it is that all of these are crammed onto a single disc instead of giving us a separate disc for the Blu Ray and the digital download. Also, having no DVD version available in the set was a bit of a downer since I like to loan mine out to friends to get them hooked. The digital download worked fine for me, though, and the BR ran perfectly in my 1st generation PS3.

Number one, i do not enjoy seeing movies in 3D in the theaters, because A) i wear glasses and 3D glasses dont fit well over them. so the whole movie i am uncomfortable fiddling with them. and B) the 3D glasses make the screen darker, and you lose detail. and i don't see that big of a difference. But Dredd was one of the only 3D movies that i completely enjoyed, and feel like i got my money worth, the 3D was awesome, and i feel like this is one of the only movies that you should have seen in 3D over the 2D version. I have never read the Judge Dredd comics, but i knew who he was, and the Stallone version ruined my interest in Dredd, so when i saw this faithful remake was coming out i was excited that Dredd would get a pretty cool kick ass adaptation. Karl Urban does a great job on Dredd, and he keeps the Helmet ON, he isn't like the Vain Stallone who had to show his face the whole movie, Dredd never takes his helmet off. this movie stays true to that. This movie is AMAZING, and a movie i feel that i can watch over and over again, the action is plentiful, the story moves along well, the characters are great, the Slo-MO is the big highlight of the movie, and the Score is really good. if you have the choice to buy one movie this month this would be the movie to get. GET DREDD!! i am disappointed that Dredd did not perform well in theaters, but that is because America does not really know the Judge Dredd comic's, so they ignored it. but you don't need to be a comic fan to enjoy this Great movie, that i feel is very faithful to the source material. i really do hope that they make a sequel to Dredd, the movie ends and you want MORE. hopefully Dredd will gain a Cult following in Bluray sales and they will decide to go ahead with another. So DO NOT Pirate this movie, Dredd deserves every penny, so buy this Bluray, it is awesome, and the Bluray has the standard and 3D versions on the same disc. and it comes with a digital copy too, i travel a lot every weekend, and this is a movie i will put on my iPad and watch on the plane!!! Dredd is my Favorite movie of 2012 and there were a lot of great movies, but this one made me want more!! i am thinking about reading the Comics too now! Have a Great day, and i hope this Review helped you buy this KICK ASS movie, that is one of the best Comic book adaptations to date! :)

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.

I should start off with that this movie is a great underrated gem that I really wanted to see again. Compared to the Stallone film you might have seen, it's a much more serious and action-packed take on the character that I really enjoyed. Not 100% faithful to the comics but a lot closer and I had a great time revisiting. The 4k print is also a really high quality version to see it in. You have a good chance of having missed this one, it really got slept on, so please check it out if it seems interesting. The digital redeem function of this product *sucked* and I wanted to provide a tutorial for anyone else struggling. Note this only applies if you want your movie on Fandago like I did, if you use Apple Movies I can't help you. You need to make an account for Fandago At Home (formerly Vudu) which is pretty standard, they're the defacto "Own your movies" that movie redemption places use. But you also need an account with a place called Movies Anywhere for some reason? And then go into your account settings in Vudu and link those two accounts. Then you can follow the instructions on the little slip included in your case on how to redeem it. If you try that before linking these two, it will take you to the page to do so but it seems not to work right and will fail, so you need to link them first before it will redeem properly Very great movie that I was very dissatisfied with the digital redemption step of.

I'll make this short, as others have gone into excellent, in-depth reviews. I'll start by saying that this film is rated R, for a reason. I've seen negative reviews, because of the violence. It is essentially about "urban warfare" in a future, dystopian setting, so anyone expecting a sugar-coated outing, should look elsewhere. Put simply, even if you know nothing about the graphic novel, this is a great film. Think of it like a thrill park ride, where you just strap in, and "hang on", while winding your way through a cleverly built mix of story and action. There is none of the over-the-top acting of the Stalone version. The acting is spot-on, with Urban and Thirlby playing their roles to a tee, with totally believable characters. If you enjoy this genre at all, and have not seen this film, then I cannot imagine being disappointed with it, because it is just so well done. It also lends it self to rewatching. Some oddball comments.... It's still a great movie, if seen on a "regular" TV, but it deserves a solid LFE (and surround) environment. There is a driving (low freq) background "beat" that underpins the many "tense" scenes in the film, and also, the LFE comes into play in a big way in several action scenes. This is a film whose sound was well crafted, such that you "feel" the tension and action, as much as you see it. This is a special blu-ray offering in that you get the 3D and non-3D version on the same disk, and this is not a post-production 3D conversion. This was shot in 3D, with none of the gimmickry. The 3D just enhances the outing even more, by simply enhancing the visual feel of the experience. And lastly, as I write this, Amazon has this on sale for the ridiculously low price of $6. Buy it! It is a "can't lose" purchase.

I loved the Stallone Judge Dredd movie as a kid. It was my only exposure to the character before this movie, Dredd. I heard good things about this movie, and bought it to check it out. I missed the futuristic flying cars, and robots, and mutants of Stallone's movie because I love that type of stuff, and Stallone's uniform almost perfectly matched the comics, but this movie was so much better, as far as plot and characters. Production design and cityscapes felt like we could live in this world in my lifetime, and I found that to be really scary, and it made me nervous the whole movie (in a good way). After watching the extras on the Blu Ray, I feel like they made a very faithful adaptation of the character, and stayed true to who he is. Karl Urban is one of my favorite actors, and he did a fantastic job at being a badass. Lena was great as Ma-Ma. I don't think there was a poor performance by anyone in this movie. It was VERY gory (really earned that R rating), and had some innovative kills, if you like that sort of thing. Slow motion shots were impressive, and I'd love to see it on a 3D tv. One of the highest compliments I could pay is to the CGI, as I often could not tell that some of the city or the main building, Peach Trees, was computer animated (only realized it after watching featurettes, and I always look for CGI during a movie). These filmakers should be very, very proud of what they did with the limited budget they had. I would definetely recommend it to action movie fans, and would see the sequel in theaters, if they get to make one. It wasn't just a shoot 'em up, as the Judges had to use their wits and skills to make it out alive, not just their guns (which when used, were awesome). The mini-gun scene was so visceral and real, it was fantastic. Botton line - I bought it at full price without seeing it before purchase, and I'm glad I did. No regrets. I actively regret not seeing it in theaters in 3D. I hope there is a sequel with a higher budget.

Oh, how I wish I'd seen this in theaters when I had the chance. Let's be clear, I've not read a single page of 2000 AD. Nor have I read any of the numerous American attempts (DC, IDW) to bring the Judge over seas to our shores. So I'm really going into this blind. I never saw the original Judge Dredd either, though apparently this was for the best. I've always been drawn to the character of Judge Dredd. Visually, he's just fascinating. Well, it turns out the dark, dystopian city he and the other judges inhabit is equally fascinating. The movie, which has been compared to The Raid (which I've never seen), stars Judge Dredd as he takes a rookie Judge Anderson, who is a mutant gifted with psychic abilities, on her final test before she becomes officially a Judge. The two get called out to a mega block tower, a slum that is ruled by the drug lord Ma-Ma. Dredd and Anderson, hoping to respond to their initial call while also shutting down a source of Slow-Mo, the drug Ma-Ma pushes, only to find that they are sealed inside the mega block. Now, following orders from Ma-Ma to kill the judges on sight, the pair have to find a way out while also shutting down Ma-Ma for good. The movie, much like the comic that inspired it, covers a lot of surprisingly complex ground in terms of subject matter, from matters of martial law and police brutality to the simple empathy that Anderson brings with her, this movie covers some interesting ground. It helps that in addition to its heavy subject matter, the movie is serviced with some intense action and some fantastic special effects, especially when you consider how little a budget this movie had when you compare it to the action-comic blockbusters produced today. In short, Dredd is an amazing movie. If you haven't seen this yet, I definitely recommend you do.

Given the maligned reputation of Sylvester Stallone film Judg Dredd back in the 1995. It's no surprise that this film had no chance of success at the box office. That is the tragedy of this because the film is amazing. It took a basic plot and found a way to make it work perfectly by cranking the violence to an 11. The performance by everyone including Karl Urban as Dredd was amazing. Dredd that I know of in the graphic novel never takes off his helmet. Sylvester Stallone in the 95 film claimed he wanted to humanize the character by showing his face. I call B.S I think ego was involved here and he didn't like the idea of his face being covered the whole time. Karl Urban the true professional he is knew the character he knew that Dredd is the faceless symbol of the law. By leaving the mask on he's the boogeyman the criminals fear because they don't have a face to look at and his feats make him look mythological. The violence here is definitely not something certain younger audience should see so be warned. It definitely got popular a few years later after it's release back in 2012. But the studio definitely dropped the ball not taking advantage that the film was more successful in its physical release than theatrical. A sequel would've become successful and I believe it still would. Check this film out you'll be pleasantly surprised.