I always loved that this film isn't trying to tell a "Judge Dredd saves the world" story. It's literally just another day in the life of Judge Dredd. This is just normal everyday life for him.
@@Skull19O1Not in the city itself, megablocks are a result of 10 billion people living in one tiny patch of land because the rest of the US is a nuclear wasteland.
the fact they were in a precarious situation and he still was saying they are still in their assignement preface what a great movie that was. we need dredd2
@@TheSchaef47 there is a precedent to provide escalation in the Dress universe. For example Palmer(?) the psyker here in review, she becomes a Chief Judge. But in the comics she's a top boss for the vast majority of her representation, so here we could document her rise through the eyes of the already hard ass Dredd in a way that explores why they are the way they are
Never caught the NO MUTIES graffiti and that Anderson pauses and looks at it as she goes past it. How can an adaptation strip away so much of the wilder stuff from the comics and yet still be a perfect adaptation filled with amazing little references to the world outside peach trees
They did a good job of not leaning heavily on the fan base but still putting in things that they'd pick up on like the chopper tag or the fatty with his belly wheel
@lightweightjive i Highly doubt it's a good idea to make dredd as a series like amazon reacher. I believe it's best to make dredd a trilogy like the matrix / LOTR
Nice little detail in the framing here I don't see anyone talk about. In this scene when MaMa goes to talk on the megaphone she's moves away from the camera and then she sits on the floor so she appears small and she speaks in a soft voice. When Dredd speaks on the megaphone his whole face takes up the screen and he talks in his usual growly voice. This highlights the difference between Dredd and MaMa, she is a common criminal who has delusions of being more powerful then she really is while Dredd is The Law and is so terrifying that other Judges fear him. As another commenter said, "For MaMa it was the fight of her life, for Dredd it was just another day at work."
One detail I noticed was the hiss of the microphone at that exact moment almost makes you think of someone going "ShiiiiiiiT" which would be appropriate given the situation if you were anyone other than Dredd.
"For MaMa it was the fight of her life, for Dredd it was just another day at work." This in a nutshell, with the added bit of having a "testie" along...
I dunno if that was the intent. I find MaMa's presentation substantially more intimidating than Dredd's specifically because of the understated framing.
Thinking of these buildings and not just made to house a huge amount of people as cheap as possible, but to do so in a way hardened for war is very dystopian, everything is so cheap in the tower, but the war measures look like they cost a lot. So for war defense to be justified there must been some *very* bad wars recently.
IIRC part of the setting is that it’s after a nuclear war occurred where the only surviving areas are the mega cities with everywhere else being irradiated wastelands
@@joshm9782 there were also a series of mega-disasters including a few wars, which saw a lot of fighting in the streets of Megacity-1. As a result, all of the new tower blocks were built to be stand-alone fortresses. They ended up doing just that, but they also have a strong resemblance to maximum security prisons, with the citizens being the inmates. Unemployment in MC-1 is usually around 80%, with even the rumor of a job causing riots. With all of their needs met by the state, citizens are left with nothing but time on their hands and a bleak future with few prospects. Crime is everywhere and rampant. Most judges automatically assume a citizens is guilty of something, because they usually are.
@MrTsiolkovsky Well said my friend, I personally also love those aspects of the comics, but I don't think belliwheels would fly with the tone they were going for 😂
This is one movie I wish there was a sequel. Absolutely phenomenal CGI and aesthetic in the movie. I also love Dredd and his sidekick in this; they really sold the movie.
Full agreement. But it needs to be 3rd person with motorcycle mechanics like Days Gone. Dredd could even call the bike to his location like in the comics.
the costuming in this film is good. The sympathetic gangster with a family stands out immediately because he's not only wearing different colors from the others but also is wearing a polo shirt.
My favorite bit from the whole movie is that it's not like the Sylvester Stallone version in so many ways with Karl Urban wearing the helmet throughout the movie because he wanted to be Dredd while Sylvester only wore it in the beginning but wanted to show his face the whole time
A nice detail is how the music gets quiter as they are riding the elevator up after the gun fight on the stairs and then kicks in again when they emerge gun blazing.
I live in Rio, and depending on neighborhood you can become lock down because of police and factions shooting each other. My apartment is not on a slum but my windows have angles for stray bullets. One of my friends got shot by a stray AK round in the shoulder when coming back from playing card games. This movie really made me look at the civillians, the fat guy having lunch, the mother with her son playing video games, the child in her playground, the two grandmas backing away from the judges... All of these scenes I know someone or heard about situations similar to these. If you really want the cyberpunk dystopia, come to Rio (or any 3rd world metropolis for that matter)
Judge Dredd is literally just John Wick without the bullshit. No hatred to the movies, comparing the two is a little silly, and I love John Wick, but spectacle is the name of the game with JW and that's glroious, but it's nothing on Dredd's clinical efficiency. His ability to walk into gunfire and isolate and devistate targets is frankly unnerving. He's a fuckin' terminator. John Wick may be who you send the kill the Boogeyman, but Dredd is the guy you send when you want to kill the Grim fucking Reaper.
@@RicardoMoralesMassin he can be both. The raid is much more focused on martial arts, even though the premises are much more similar. JW is all about Gunplay, which Dredd excels at
"He's thinking about making a move for your gun." Little did he know that she didn't save him because of Dredd's own retaliation, but that the gun itself would not like that.
I love the dystopic idea that these people in these giant building probably live their entire lives in that one small hive. It's like warhammer 40k almost
I think pretty much any traditional game is like this. For non-open world game you kinda "can't escape" from the game, it is linear. But i find interconnected hub in a single location to be the one thats so much closer to the feeling of dredd and the raid. Something like dark soul 1, the Castlevenia series.
Anderson: Sir, he's thinking of making a move for your gun. Dredd: 'Yup.' Thinking: *Oh, please be dumb enough to try. Please try. I won't even try to stop you* Anderson: 'He changed his mind.' Dredd: 'Yup.' Thinking: *aww... that would've been hilarious*
You're just a most likely underpaid service technician for the building doing your daily grind and gang bangers just kill you for being there cause they need the room.
Minor mistake the writers made. Dredd and partner would have died in the elevator. The gang controls the control room. Nobody outside their gang and the judges are moving around. If they tracked the lifts at all, they could have halted it immediately, leaving the judges trapped for long enough to get a group together. And tracking elevators is one of the basic steps to controlling a skyscraper. Prevent people from moving between floors divides search areas and control areas by the number of floors (a skyscraper with 27 levels. If you know they are on level 5, there are 26 levels you don't have to search as long as they can't change floor). An elevator is a box that it is difficult to get out of except through the front door. After that, you simply shoot the box.
Ma-Ma had control over the regular elevators. Dredd and Anderson take stairwells until they encounter Cathy (the gangster's wife with the baby), who tips them off about a 'broken' service elevator that still functions above level 40. I find it plausible enough that the control room doesn't have perfect information or control over the broken elevator.
@@stargazer7644 And they are shown to have cameras watching the stairs. Watch the stair cameras, or even put people in the stair cases every few levels and you know if they ever try to change floor.
A 2nd movie after Anderson with Judge Death as a folllow up would have been great!! Too bad the bean counters at the studio got in the way of a great franchise..😢
That exists in far too many places. TRON Legacy was a half billion dollar movie but Disney let TRON 3 (and TRON Uprising) die on the vine because a Marvel movie could make a whole billion. Meanwhile Joseph Kosinski goes on to revive another 80s franchise which is an even bigger hit.
The judges pretty much are the government, this was a routine call out and chosen by anderson Judges tended to work alone or as a pair and as far as they knew this was a routine killing and she was a rookie judge on assessment who'd been trained from an early age if she followed the standard career path of a judge. She'd failed tests but they wanted her for the psy division which is why she was paired with dredd for one last attempt.
It wasn’t really that they were dispatched to go to peach trees, it’s more like she chose to go to peach trees and dispatch approved it. Which doesn’t seem so unreasonable, considering the level of violence everywhere else anyways.
I hate HATE “emergency protocols” that immediately dim the lights and start blasting deafening sirens. Good luck trying to survive when everything is dimly lit and your ears are ringing.
Interesting that’war’ protocol is different from ‘bomb’. So this is meant for actual on the ground, something different from just a nuke. Also makes me wonder how procedures for riot and chemical would differ
I presume "war" is just the top level "shit has hit the fan" level. Riot likely just locks up the ground floors, chemical isolates the air circulation, though idk what bomb would do
Megacity One was designed to survive World War 4 should it ever occur (and in the comics, it did). Every hab block is designed to totally lock down in the event of a nuclear assault or ground invasion from hostile forces. The lockdown for nuclear attack was triggered during World War 4 (also called the Apocalypse War) between Megacity One and Sov Eastmeg One (a Soviet mega city). The war lockdown was triggered when the Sovs launched a ground invasion of Megacity One, and later during the Judgement Day crisis when millions of zombies attempted to storm the city.
The fact that if she had just left them alone for THIRTY MORE SECONDS they'd be gone and that's why she's being hunted by Dredd now is hilarious to me.
Nah, they even explain it that if K had died they would've let the judges leave, but the Judges would've got him to talk and exposed Mama's whole operation.
Locking Dredd and Anderson inside Peach Trees was a deliberate play. Kay knew too much about her drug operation and didn't want him to be taken into custody for interrogation. Had that happened, a lot more than 2 Judges would have been dispatched to Peach Trees.
They did so much in this movie they didnt leave room for a sequal. Mama a huge narco dealer A hacker capable of controlling the block 4 corrupt judges. Dredd and Anderson were great, but what do you do to top this?
All in all, the film is set mostly in one location, Peach Trees, a single tower block. Then again it's essentially an arcology and probably a microcosm for Mega City One in general, but outside of that it is a fairly small-scale conflict. A sequel would have something affecting a larger portion of the city - for example, the "Day of Chaos" arc from the comics might prove interesting, although its subject matter might be "too soon".
In a lock-in, recover ALL arms and ammo from all you drop. Even absolute junk still provides suppression. Off hand blind is even fine in total b.s.. Great flick still.
Rebellion, the company which owns (or owned I don't remember) the character did a first person shooter something like 20 years ago, it's called Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death and is pretty good
The cinema I saw it at was sold out, but this was in England! Same with the full-on Grindhouse double feature. It came out as two seperate movies, because "Britain never had a tradition of double features", which for one is BS, that tradition just ended earlier, and for two, so what? We speak the same language as America and watch more of their media than our own, I think we "get it". Anyway a few cinemas put on the full Grindhouse as a one-off showing, every one sold out.
@@worldcomicsreview354 I saw it in a double bill with Lawless (ok film but didn't grab me like Dredd 3D) first and Dredd 3D after. Wasn't expecting anything from Dredd at-all, nearly didn't even watch it in fact... amazing looking back. Never seen two 18 rated films together like that in the cinema before or since. They're actually quite rare let alone 2 at once
Its considered part of the Peach Trees megablock, so since the emergency services for that area were already notified to be ignored due to the test, it would not go through.
Whut? He does not have any plot armour. He got a hole blown through him and was saved by Anderson. He ran from miniguns. He ran out of ammo. Why does a film need to have a message? It needs to have a story so it did - it was Anderson's training day.
I like Lena Headey with dark hair more than blonde hair. Also, I like her evil in movies too, there's something I love about beautiful evil women with dark hair 🤤🤤
@@jocramkrispy305 first movie with sylvester stalone in the 90's this is a simplistic, no sublety and the plot and writing is weak the 1st movie was far more interesting and the bad guys were far deeper and better written. this newest one is comically bad
I always loved that this film isn't trying to tell a "Judge Dredd saves the world" story. It's literally just another day in the life of Judge Dredd. This is just normal everyday life for him.
The day Judge Dredd showed up to PeachTrees was the most important day in MaMa's life, but for Dredd it was tuesday
@@battlesheep2552underrated
@@battlesheep2552 Just a drug bust with uncooperative suspects.
imagine all the paper work he has to go through now.
@@battlesheep2552
I understood that reference.
The simple fact that something that size needed that kind of protection make the world building so interesting.
I like how it implies that the Mega Blocks were built under the threat of a nuclear war without outright stating it.
It was also for block wars. Whole mega blocks would get into shooting wars with each other an needed protection
Also implies the weather must be severe
Also Megacities have gone to war with each other and had to fend off mutant/outsider invasions. The world of Dredd is a nasty one.
@@Skull19O1Not in the city itself, megablocks are a result of 10 billion people living in one tiny patch of land because the rest of the US is a nuclear wasteland.
the fact they were in a precarious situation and he still was saying they are still in their assignement preface what a great movie that was. we need dredd2
For Dredd, this is literally a Tuesday. Recall his report to his superior upon exiting the building: "Drug bust. Perps were uncooperative."
@@TheSchaef47 yeah also when mama was talking about expanding she was saying there are sevtors that are red to them, imagine the orld building😱
@@TheSchaef47 there is a precedent to provide escalation in the Dress universe. For example Palmer(?) the psyker here in review, she becomes a Chief Judge. But in the comics she's a top boss for the vast majority of her representation, so here we could document her rise through the eyes of the already hard ass Dredd in a way that explores why they are the way they are
Pfft, this is just a regular Tuesday for Dredd
It’s too late for Dredd2. This movie is what 12 years old?
"You just saved my as over here."
Only true words he said in the whole conversation.
Well... his supervisor was breathing down his neck too lol
@@eneveasi Hey that's two things that were true!
@@newperve ahahaha he channeled that to get the job done for sure xD
ASS*
Never caught the NO MUTIES graffiti and that Anderson pauses and looks at it as she goes past it. How can an adaptation strip away so much of the wilder stuff from the comics and yet still be a perfect adaptation filled with amazing little references to the world outside peach trees
5:05
They did a good job of not leaning heavily on the fan base but still putting in things that they'd pick up on like the chopper tag or the fatty with his belly wheel
Goes to show how excellent direction and writing can work in any genre movie. This is cinematic masterpiece.
What a movie, it's a crime we didn't get a sequel or a prequel
What is the sentence for that crime?
@@Glitcher2000 Life in an isocube.
Friend. Sometimes it's better to keep things as a one off.
@@Zekrom249while I tend to agree, Judge Dredd needs a full live action series just like this movie only 8 or 9 seasons long.
@lightweightjive i Highly doubt it's a good idea to make dredd as a series like amazon reacher. I believe it's best to make dredd a trilogy like the matrix / LOTR
Nice little detail in the framing here I don't see anyone talk about. In this scene when MaMa goes to talk on the megaphone she's moves away from the camera and then she sits on the floor so she appears small and she speaks in a soft voice.
When Dredd speaks on the megaphone his whole face takes up the screen and he talks in his usual growly voice.
This highlights the difference between Dredd and MaMa, she is a common criminal who has delusions of being more powerful then she really is while Dredd is The Law and is so terrifying that other Judges fear him.
As another commenter said, "For MaMa it was the fight of her life, for Dredd it was just another day at work."
I'm confused. She's using a desk mic and brings it with her to her seat.
One detail I noticed was the hiss of the microphone at that exact moment almost makes you think of someone going "ShiiiiiiiT" which would be appropriate given the situation if you were anyone other than Dredd.
For MaMa, this was the fight of her life. For Dredd, this was Tuesday. Something like that I imagine?
"For MaMa it was the fight of her life, for Dredd it was just another day at work." This in a nutshell, with the added bit of having a "testie" along...
I dunno if that was the intent. I find MaMa's presentation substantially more intimidating than Dredd's specifically because of the understated framing.
Sir, he’s thinking of making a move for your gun.
Yup.
You changed his mind.
Yup.
*And that, folks, is why I love this fucking movie!!!*
It never mattered. If he reached for the gun his arm would’ve blew up no matter what. 😂
@@ashleywilliams8590Still, best not to be in the blast radius if it happens - say, inside an elevator lol
@@Bek359the explosion isn’t even that big
Dredd: don't need to be a mind reader to know that rookie
@@Bek359plus he will lose his gun… nope dredd would have broken the thug’s arm in unarmed combat before he let him take his gun.
Thinking of these buildings and not just made to house a huge amount of people as cheap as possible, but to do so in a way hardened for war is very dystopian, everything is so cheap in the tower, but the war measures look like they cost a lot. So for war defense to be justified there must been some *very* bad wars recently.
IIRC part of the setting is that it’s after a nuclear war occurred where the only surviving areas are the mega cities with everywhere else being irradiated wastelands
@@joshm9782 there were also a series of mega-disasters including a few wars, which saw a lot of fighting in the streets of Megacity-1. As a result, all of the new tower blocks were built to be stand-alone fortresses. They ended up doing just that, but they also have a strong resemblance to maximum security prisons, with the citizens being the inmates. Unemployment in MC-1 is usually around 80%, with even the rumor of a job causing riots. With all of their needs met by the state, citizens are left with nothing but time on their hands and a bleak future with few prospects. Crime is everywhere and rampant. Most judges automatically assume a citizens is guilty of something, because they usually are.
@@joshm9782 A nuclear war kicked off by the American president, even.
Probably the cheapest war defense possible while still offering the required protection
Literally still better than any American town
They absolutely annihilated this remake. So good.
It wasn't a remake, it was the real adaptation aside from fan works. Otherwise I agree with your sentiment!
@MrTsiolkovsky Well said my friend, I personally also love those aspects of the comics, but I don't think belliwheels would fly with the tone they were going for 😂
@MrTsiolkovsky I was disappointed by the respirators though -- although it did work around Anderson not wearing a helmet
This is one movie I wish there was a sequel. Absolutely phenomenal CGI and aesthetic in the movie. I also love Dredd and his sidekick in this; they really sold the movie.
They have a plan.
Unfortunately, this film didn't cut it in the box office so the bean counters said no to the sequel.
@@burnouttx2415yup damned shame
Didn't the Slow Mo guys work on this movie?
@@SamsarasArtThat and the last Sherlock Holmes film. Specifically, the scene where they were running through the forest, dodging artillery fire.
Its a crime against humanity that this didn't get a sequel.
We need an open world Judge Dredd game as of yesterday.
Full agreement. But it needs to be 3rd person with motorcycle mechanics like Days Gone. Dredd could even call the bike to his location like in the comics.
@@frankrabbit2247bruh I want 2 so bad but we're never getting it also sunset overdrive 2
@declanoconnor3445 we'll never get a third Riddick game or another Prototype either!
@@frankrabbit2247it can be a dlc for cyberpunk 2077 😏
Have you played crackdown?
the costuming in this film is good. The sympathetic gangster with a family stands out immediately because he's not only wearing different colors from the others but also is wearing a polo shirt.
What's sympathetic about him?
@@RD-zx6py he's hwhite
@@Bongwater47 I wondered if that's what they were getting at.
My favorite bit from the whole movie is that it's not like the Sylvester Stallone version in so many ways with Karl Urban wearing the helmet throughout the movie because he wanted to be Dredd while Sylvester only wore it in the beginning but wanted to show his face the whole time
- "Yup"
The best dialog...
A nice detail is how the music gets quiter as they are riding the elevator up after the gun fight on the stairs and then kicks in again when they emerge gun blazing.
I live in Rio, and depending on neighborhood you can become lock down because of police and factions shooting each other. My apartment is not on a slum but my windows have angles for stray bullets. One of my friends got shot by a stray AK round in the shoulder when coming back from playing card games.
This movie really made me look at the civillians, the fat guy having lunch, the mother with her son playing video games, the child in her playground, the two grandmas backing away from the judges... All of these scenes I know someone or heard about situations similar to these. If you really want the cyberpunk dystopia, come to Rio (or any 3rd world metropolis for that matter)
Domhnoll Gleeson is such an underrated actor. I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie where he didn't steal the show when on screen.
star wars did that man very dirty and wasted him completley on that clown huxx
I love Dredd. They're in a massively fucked up situation and he still remembers to quiz the rookie :p
Judge Dredd is literally just John Wick without the bullshit. No hatred to the movies, comparing the two is a little silly, and I love John Wick, but spectacle is the name of the game with JW and that's glroious, but it's nothing on Dredd's clinical efficiency.
His ability to walk into gunfire and isolate and devistate targets is frankly unnerving. He's a fuckin' terminator. John Wick may be who you send the kill the Boogeyman, but Dredd is the guy you send when you want to kill the Grim fucking Reaper.
Judge Dredd is not JW, it's the sci-fi The Raid: Redemption.
@@RicardoMoralesMassin he can be both. The raid is much more focused on martial arts, even though the premises are much more similar. JW is all about Gunplay, which Dredd excels at
Funny you should say that. Karl Urban played a character in the Doom movie, whose nickname was Reaper.
Judge Dredd is who you send when you need to kill John Wick.
@@decswxaqzsick connection, I love it
"He's thinking about making a move for your gun."
Little did he know that she didn't save him because of Dredd's own retaliation, but that the gun itself would not like that.
0:37 LMAO, that is the ballast for an HID bulb. I guess they figured kids today wouldn't recognize it.
I noticed that as well only because I had the exact same one hooked up to my first car 😂😂
there's also a headlight plug about 20 seconds later, I'm guessing they ripped apart a scrapyard car for 'techy parts'
@@TheAechBombstill looks good though 😂
The film had a surprisingly contained budget for the visuals on display. Not low enough to turn a profit though
damn😅 i had the bluest hids ever
I love the dystopic idea that these people in these giant building probably live their entire lives in that one small hive. It's like warhammer 40k almost
okay the fact that he nmaps an sftp port is some great attention to detail
and yet they also plug into an HID bulb ballast in the control room :P
I am not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me
Never compromise
2:38 😂 Apple vision pro in this universe
Man this would make such a good setting for a video game.
dredd vs death
I think pretty much any traditional game is like this. For non-open world game you kinda "can't escape" from the game, it is linear. But i find interconnected hub in a single location to be the one thats so much closer to the feeling of dredd and the raid. Something like dark soul 1, the Castlevenia series.
6:23 YOO THATS CHRISTIAN BALE
He needs to start mewing
Anderson: Sir, he's thinking of making a move for your gun.
Dredd: 'Yup.' Thinking: *Oh, please be dumb enough to try. Please try. I won't even try to stop you*
Anderson: 'He changed his mind.'
Dredd: 'Yup.' Thinking: *aww... that would've been hilarious*
The fact that he took this opportunity to train a rookie is so badass.
0.:37 that thing he plugs into is an old Xenon headlamp ballast for a car :)
You're just a most likely underpaid service technician for the building doing your daily grind and gang bangers just kill you for being there cause they need the room.
In Dredd world that just means you got off easy.
If they had walked very slightly faster, they would have been outside the door when it closed. Short movie.
Fortunately, there are no judges in CP2077, or else these Cyberpsycho hunters called maxtac would be out of jobs
Man, 2077 megabuildings are like smaller megablocks aren't they
@@halsneed6136 they are
"Sir, they are going cyberpsycho"
"Yep"
"You just made them change their mind"
"Yep"
Nah, besides their guns Maxtac is way ahead of Judges
"My supervisor "
Wastes a bunch of bullets unnecessarily
Later in, he struggles with his ammo
Hollywood writing 101
Minor mistake the writers made. Dredd and partner would have died in the elevator. The gang controls the control room. Nobody outside their gang and the judges are moving around. If they tracked the lifts at all, they could have halted it immediately, leaving the judges trapped for long enough to get a group together. And tracking elevators is one of the basic steps to controlling a skyscraper. Prevent people from moving between floors divides search areas and control areas by the number of floors (a skyscraper with 27 levels. If you know they are on level 5, there are 26 levels you don't have to search as long as they can't change floor). An elevator is a box that it is difficult to get out of except through the front door. After that, you simply shoot the box.
The building does have stairs.
Ma-Ma had control over the regular elevators. Dredd and Anderson take stairwells until they encounter Cathy (the gangster's wife with the baby), who tips them off about a 'broken' service elevator that still functions above level 40. I find it plausible enough that the control room doesn't have perfect information or control over the broken elevator.
Elevators in 2024 have local emergency override. Which cops have a key for.
@@gooel This isn't that elevator though. This is just a random elevator they got into for no reason.
@@stargazer7644 And they are shown to have cameras watching the stairs. Watch the stair cameras, or even put people in the stair cases every few levels and you know if they ever try to change floor.
I need a sequel to this , such a good watch
The homeless guy gave zero f's lol at least in the "cubes" aka jail he have nice bed and food lmao
He probably should have given at least one, and moved out of the way of the blast door.
@@TheSchaef47 That blast door moved hella fast, I don't think he even had time to really process it when it started moving.
@@doomyboidress told him to leave when they first seen him ,when he first entered the building he should’ve listened
Given the source material isocubes, I'm not sure that's the case. The 'cubes from the game, probably
A 2nd movie after Anderson with Judge Death as a folllow up would have been great!! Too bad the bean counters at the studio got in the way of a great franchise..😢
That exists in far too many places. TRON Legacy was a half billion dollar movie but Disney let TRON 3 (and TRON Uprising) die on the vine because a Marvel movie could make a whole billion. Meanwhile Joseph Kosinski goes on to revive another 80s franchise which is an even bigger hit.
They should have done a bigger-budget Mega City One story first, before bringing in the supernatural stuff.
Dredd be like
“Sir he’s thinking about making a move for your gun.”
“Okay.”
“He just changed his mind.”
“Okay.”
It is criminal that we never got dredd 2
When Suzanne Summers fell in to that bucket of shrimp, I could stop laughing.
Yeah... yep..
I love Karl Urban as Dredd.
Skateboard Park FORESHADOWING
Except they dispatched a judge and trainee to Peach Trees. Given the level of government incompetence though, I can see this happening anyway.
The judges pretty much are the government, this was a routine call out and chosen by anderson
Judges tended to work alone or as a pair and as far as they knew this was a routine killing and she was a rookie judge on assessment who'd been trained from an early age if she followed the standard career path of a judge. She'd failed tests but they wanted her for the psy division which is why she was paired with dredd for one last attempt.
It wasn’t really that they were dispatched to go to peach trees, it’s more like she chose to go to peach trees and dispatch approved it. Which doesn’t seem so unreasonable, considering the level of violence everywhere else anyways.
Besides the Judge was Dredd. ‘Nuff said.
We need a sequel to this asap
Kinda wish Dredd had made "Not locked in here with them, locked in here with us" quip.
Having Jackie Earle Haley as a villain would make the line fit even better :D
nah, he doesn't have to, he already just radiates a threatening aura
It was also a film that used 3D properly
I gotta check this film out on peacock
Have enjoyed Dredd since the very first edition of 2000AD.
This building reminds me of Chungking mansions in hong kong so much fun
I hate HATE “emergency protocols” that immediately dim the lights and start blasting deafening sirens. Good luck trying to survive when everything is dimly lit and your ears are ringing.
0:24 Imagine sleeping to death
2:03 is that usyk lmao
Interesting that’war’ protocol is different from ‘bomb’. So this is meant for actual on the ground, something different from just a nuke.
Also makes me wonder how procedures for riot and chemical would differ
I'm guess riot has gas?
I presume "war" is just the top level "shit has hit the fan" level. Riot likely just locks up the ground floors, chemical isolates the air circulation, though idk what bomb would do
Megacity One was designed to survive World War 4 should it ever occur (and in the comics, it did). Every hab block is designed to totally lock down in the event of a nuclear assault or ground invasion from hostile forces. The lockdown for nuclear attack was triggered during World War 4 (also called the Apocalypse War) between Megacity One and Sov Eastmeg One (a Soviet mega city). The war lockdown was triggered when the Sovs launched a ground invasion of Megacity One, and later during the Judgement Day crisis when millions of zombies attempted to storm the city.
Call it. Dredd has a cold beutucratic way about him that i just love.
Imagine running into neon green gas and breathing it in willy nilly 👀
Wait a film that uses social engineering when it comes to hacking!
It's nice to see nmap still being used 2134.
MAKE DREDD 2 !!!
This is why you keep the doors to your security room locked.
I remember this movie, "The Raid 3" it was called, right?
Filmed before Raid 1 but released after
I want to see the Robo War or the travel to save Mega City 2 in this universe, awesome movie
this film was a fucking masterpiece
oh, a gangster boss has just locked down the whole building to catch us and the whole population is against us?
rookie, what we doin? ^^
They didn't lock Dredd in there with them. They locked themselves in with Dredd.
... If she only knew WHO she just trapped herself in a cage with
The fact that if she had just left them alone for THIRTY MORE SECONDS they'd be gone and that's why she's being hunted by Dredd now is hilarious to me.
Nah, they even explain it that if K had died they would've let the judges leave, but the Judges would've got him to talk and exposed Mama's whole operation.
Locking Dredd and Anderson inside Peach Trees was a deliberate play. Kay knew too much about her drug operation and didn't want him to be taken into custody for interrogation. Had that happened, a lot more than 2 Judges would have been dispatched to Peach Trees.
1:41 She needed to be psychic to know that... Dredd didn't.
That's why Dredd is Dredd.
Looks like Memphis, NYC, Chicago, Atlanta and more, mostly NYC, have a good day.
"This is Mama." ... ooooh yes, it is. :o Lena's voice. my god.
They did so much in this movie they didnt leave room for a sequal.
Mama a huge narco dealer
A hacker capable of controlling the block
4 corrupt judges.
Dredd and Anderson were great, but what do you do to top this?
Now that they've properly introduced a "regular day" for Dredd, they can move to a higher-stakes plot, for example.
@@adrienbeau-sm8cv the immediate escalation is calming a Blokk-War: when two tower blocks lay out gangplanks and slug it out
All in all, the film is set mostly in one location, Peach Trees, a single tower block. Then again it's essentially an arcology and probably a microcosm for Mega City One in general, but outside of that it is a fairly small-scale conflict. A sequel would have something affecting a larger portion of the city - for example, the "Day of Chaos" arc from the comics might prove interesting, although its subject matter might be "too soon".
The Dark Judges or Apocalypse War
Have you seen the source material?
In a lock-in, recover ALL arms and ammo from all you drop. Even absolute junk still provides suppression. Off hand blind is even fine in total b.s..
Great flick still.
I never realised that the gas was most likely just. chlorine. not certainly mustard gas but, knowing Mega City One, probably.
Brilliantly gory detail at 0:38 when the metal box slides on the blood.
The film was very gory. And filmed in genuine 3D, which made the gore even gorier.
Ya yep
Microsoft should make Dredd the video game!!! 4:38
Rebellion, the company which owns (or owned I don't remember) the character did a first person shooter something like 20 years ago, it's called Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death and is pretty good
We’re not allowed to have good things anymore we’re forced to watch bang average Netflix and Amazon shows.
It's ridiculous. This movie scored but failed to lack of awareness.
The cinema I saw it at was sold out, but this was in England!
Same with the full-on Grindhouse double feature. It came out as two seperate movies, because "Britain never had a tradition of double features", which for one is BS, that tradition just ended earlier, and for two, so what? We speak the same language as America and watch more of their media than our own, I think we "get it".
Anyway a few cinemas put on the full Grindhouse as a one-off showing, every one sold out.
@@worldcomicsreview354 I saw it in a double bill with Lawless (ok film but didn't grab me like Dredd 3D) first and Dredd 3D after. Wasn't expecting anything from Dredd at-all, nearly didn't even watch it in fact... amazing looking back.
Never seen two 18 rated films together like that in the cinema before or since. They're actually quite rare let alone 2 at once
Dredd with the BIG BLACK ... Guns
2:35 aew fan
They fucking used a jontron vc 😭 6:00
You’d think that after that guy got squashed by the door someone would come investigate.
In a society with more resources and more devotion to the value of all human life. In this mega-city, such people are expendable.
Oh they will investigate, but in emergency triage, they'll look into the case in 15 - 20 business years.
“It said stand clear, he didn’t listen. Investigation complete, I’m going on break.”
Just another Tuesday
Its considered part of the Peach Trees megablock, so since the emergency services for that area were already notified to be ignored due to the test, it would not go through.
Cersei Lannister has really fallen off.
Chinese guy should have listened
Biggest badass in this movie? The homeless Asian guy
More like flatass
No cred - no med.
Murica
Hux isn't looking too good
Judge Dredd predicted '15 minute cities' XD
Really that scene with them jacking the control room was a little unnecessary. That should have been done when they took control of the block.
Dredd having unlimited plot armor, makes this movie a vapid decoration with no message.
Whut? He does not have any plot armour. He got a hole blown through him and was saved by Anderson. He ran from miniguns. He ran out of ammo.
Why does a film need to have a message?
It needs to have a story so it did - it was Anderson's training day.
Didn't realize Avon was in this movie lmao
I like Lena Headey with dark hair more than blonde hair. Also, I like her evil in movies too, there's something I love about beautiful evil women with dark hair 🤤🤤
You should use what ever weapon you want. Not what a D list streamer tell's ya.
2:35 An actual Fatty.
dumb uc😂
This movie is so goddamn dumb. But I like it.
Wdym
this movie missed the ENTIRE POINT of its predecessor its laughable.
This is so bad its cartoonish
lol
What? This is the only Dredd adaptation.
@@jocramkrispy305 first movie with sylvester stalone in the 90's
this is a simplistic, no sublety and the plot and writing is weak
the 1st movie was far more interesting and the bad guys were far deeper and better written.
this newest one is comically bad
lol
@@Winston-lf7sb #1 rule of Dredd: you never see Dredd's face (even DM, but no spoilers)