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Olivia Thirlby anchors the audience as Judge Anderson. Anderson is psychic, and her powers come to play a major role in the film. Despite this, she's a neophyte and we experience the world through her eyes. Thirlby is very solid, providing us with the sole character arc in the film, as she goes from scared trainee to battle-hardened Judge. If your only experience with Lena Headey is from Game of Thrones, then you might not even recognize her here as the brutal and sadistic Ma-Ma. Warped and scarred, Headey is a potent villain who proves to be quite the match for Dredd. The UHD release of Dreddis presented in4K Ultra HD with an HEVC H.265 encode in 2160p and a 2.40:1aspect ratio. Dreddwas shot digitally (and in 3D) andup-converted to 4K UHD with an impressive HDR10 / WCG grading. There is no 3D available here, though. It's no doubt that this remake is highly stylized with a mix of the old comic book feel along with a ton of CGI effects to make this futuristic dystopia look bleak yet colorful. Five years later, with still no sequel on the horizon, fans of Dredd can finally breathe a sigh of relief at the news of a Dredd TV show which will hopefully maintain the style and ethos of this faithful adaptation, whilst similarly utilising budget-friendly locales and smaller-scale stories to keep the costs down until it achieves the success it deserves. The only news fans are still waiting to hear is whether star Karl Urban - who, despite his excellent McCoy, and despite never getting to see his face here, will probably always be regarded as the definitive Dredd - will sign up for it. Judge Dredd is so popular in his native Britain that his name is used as a byword for the threat of a police state. Sadly, in America, most people's only exposure to the character is the 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle. While that movie has some fun elements, it did a terrible job of translating the comic to the screen. It's also tainted the franchise in American eyes so thoroughly that the character is considered something of a joke by anyone who hasn't read the brilliant comic books. As a result, another attempt at adapting the property to film hasn't happened for almost twenty years. But finally Alex Garland, author of The Beach and screenwriter of 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Never Let Me Go, managed to get the funds together to make a low budget film, this one titled simply Dredd. Although not a perfect release, this powerful use of the new format's technology still puts it in demo territory

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Day of Chaos: The Visual Effects of Dredd(HD, 15 min) – The most substantial extra on the set, this featurette looks at the designs of Mega-City One and the involvement of the effects team. Interviews are mixed with pre-production photographs that are then compared with the final product. This feature could easily have been twice as long. Dredd blasts an armour piercing round onto US 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with an impressive HEVC / H.265 encoded 2160p transfer framed in the movie's original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.40:1 widescreen. The UHD Blu-ray was reviewed on a Samsung UE55KS8000 Ultra HD TV and a Samsung UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player. Dredd keeps all the bonus material from the original Blu-ray release, all of which are found on the Blu-ray in this multi-disc set. Dredd develops a strong visual style, immediately distancing itself from the Stallone version. Dredd is dirty, grimy, and feels incredibly real. The film was shot in South Africa, with Cape Town and Johannesburg standing in for the east coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic Mega-City. I was very impressed with the production design of Dredd. It feels like a place that could exist under the right circumstances, instead of the Blade Runnergone mad look that defined the 1995 film. Even more arresting are the "Slo-Mo" sequences. Slo-Mo is a drug that slows down time for the person high on it, and the filmmakers take great care to show these trips, turning gunfights into slow-motion ballets of death. Dredd takes this even further than films like Hard Boiled or The Matrix, using newly developed cameras that shoot at 3,000 frames per second, for an unparalleled sense of slow motion. The results are stunning. The previous Blu-ray release certainly had some problems in the video department, but it looks like this 4K UHD release is a big upgrade for fans of the film, visually speaking. It comes at a cost though, due to the heavy CGI effects, where you can easily and instantly distinguish practical from CGI effect at every turn. This happens quite a bit with older CG films that have been up converted to 4K, where it's very easy to tell when actors or props are in front of a green screen. It doesn't take away from the viewing experience, but it's definitelynoticeable.Of course Dredd was originally designed to be seen in 3D, with key sequences (in particular the Slo-Mo drug-induced shots) specifically tailored to make the most of the format. Most fans would agree that the 2D versions released thus far have been inferior to the 3D experience, but that doesn't put Ultra HD adopters at a disadvantage thanks to the presentation's use of the High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Colour Gamut (WCG). The 3rd Dimension (HD, 2 min) – Dredd was shot in 3D, and this featurette talks about that process. We also get a look at the slow-motion cameras used for the Slo-Mo sequences and get to see a lot of the camera tests they ran to get the blood to look the way they wanted. Dredd Featurette (HD, 2 min) – As you can probably tell from the generic title and short runtime, this is total studio promotional fluff, with more footage from the movie than anything else. Many people don't know this, but there's more to the world of comic books than superheroes. In fact, many of the brightest names in American comics started writing in other countries, especially Britain, which has a distinct comic book industry that in many ways takes more chances than Marvel, DC, Image, or Dark Horse. Take 2000 AD as an example. This sci-fi anthology magazine debuted in the mid-70's, and in the second issue it featured a strip called Judge Dredd. The title character of the strip was a stern, no-nonsense cop living in an absolute police state. The property proved so popular that the strip has run non-stop in every issue of 2000 AD ever since. Even more surprising, the comic takes place in real time, meaning that one year of our lives is one year in the world of Judge Dredd. The comic is incredibly ambitious, with many storylines taking place over the course of six months or more. Make no mistake -- this Dredd4K UHD English Dolby Atmos mixis the epitome of what an action movie should sound like.