What it certainly does do, though, is deliver a massive improvement over the (sadly locked to Region A) HD Blu-ray.įor starters, the 4K Blu-ray’s addition of high dynamic range is transformative. This bit gets very, very loud thanks to the 4K Blu-ray's Dolby Atmos mix.
Add this to the film’s deliberately grainy, drab style and it’s not surprising that it doesn’t deliver a state of the art Ultra HD Blu-ray experience. Key kit used for this test: Samsung UN65KS9800 TV, Oppo 203 UHD BD player, Panasonic UB900 UHD BD Playerĭredd was delivered to cinemas using a 2K Digital Intermediate, and it’s presumably an upscaled version of this sub-4K source that’s been used to create the Dredd 4K Blu-ray. What you get: Ultra HD Blu-ray HD Blu-ray (Region A ONLY) code for UltraViolet/iTunes Digital HD versionĮxtra features: Mega-City Masters featurette on Judge Dredd’s comic book heritage Day of Chaos featurette on the film’s special effects short ‘making of’ featurette comic-book style mini movie focusing on Ma-Ma’s back story A featurette on creating Dredd’s uniform and hardware a featurette on the creation of the Peach Trees mega block a featurette on shooting the film in stereoscopic 3D But for the film’s fan base, these issues are all just part of its gritty charm. There’s ultimately no hiding Dredd’s lack of narrative ambition, its consistently obvious budgetary constraints (it only cost around $35,000,000 to make), and its dated vibe. Lena Headey continues to prove herself the go to actress for terrifying female baddie roles too, while Olivia Thirlby injects convincing life into the potentially thankless role of the relatively innocent rookie.
Karl Urban plays the permanently helmeted Dredd with a satisfyingly uncompromising grimness, ensuring that not so much as a hint of a smile ever plays around his lips. Which is, of course, exactly how his fans want it to be.
Heads explode from gunfire, skin is removed with gay abandon, people literally splat to earth after being dropped from great heights, eyes are ripped from their sockets, genitals are merrily munched off - there really is no act of violence Dredd shies away from.
Most of Dredd takes place in a single locked-down tower block, and the plot is really no more complicated than Dredd and his innocent new sidekick having to survive a constant barrage of increasingly violent attempts to kill them using survival techniques seldom more sophisticated than just being even more violent than their attackers.
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