They include a few brief featurettes on the film’s production including set design the 3D (which is not included in this set) and the Judge Dredd comic book character as well. The special features are on both the Ultra HD and Blu-ray, but nothing new has been added to this re-release. The low end is beefy for the numerous explosions and what not. It’s atmospheric and immersive with active Atmos channels, excellent balance and clear dialogue. Questions of why Lionsgate went with Atmos rather than DTS:X aside, the Atmos mix is superb. The Ultra HD disc has a new Dolby Atmos mix, however. That is perfectly acceptable for those with 9.1 or 11.1 non-discrete setups, such as I had before moving to Atmos/DTS:X.

The original Blu-ray release came with a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 mix optimized for the then new Neo:X and that is what is still present on the Blu-ray included in this set. The Audioĭredd has always had an aggressive and nicely done sound mix on home video. In comparison to the companion release from Lionsgate of Ex Machina, this one definitely is definitely much more of an obvious upgrade from the Blu-ray in a visual sense. The slo-mo drug effects like water droplets or shards of glass in the final scene really sparkle as well. When Ma-Ma starts firing off that mega-gun to blast through the walls of Peach Trees and kill Judge Dredd and Anderson, the bullets flying glow so brightly thanks to the HDR and the extended color range. The highlights really pop and colors explode from the screen. That said, this transfer looks great in terms of the HDR and wide color gamut. This grain looks natural, but it can also be a little distracting especially in the extra crisp world of 4K. The film has obviously had artificial “grain” added to it because it tends to look quite gritty at times. The multi-ammo guns the Judges use and the cavernous Peach Trees offers an endless maze of fighting grounds, but Judge Dredd might have been better off down in the mean streets doling out justice and not locked inside with one not-so-smart villain and a story that is a razor-thin excuse for showing off special effects.ĭredd was shot in 4.5K on a Red One MX and comes to Ultra HD in an HEVC encodement with HDR10 high dynamic range. The slo-mo drug effect, which is superb at first, but is then overused. There’s a lot of great action and visual effects in Dredd to be sure.

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