Judge Dredd: Redemption http://fanedit.org/ifdb/media/reviews/photos/thumbnail/300x300s/68/84/4c/770_dredd-front-134785697091.jpg

This was surprisingly good fun.

It is still pure schlock, the pinnacle of 80s/90s action movie formula excess, but now the schlock is tolerable in this fan edit.

Juice did a masterful balancing act in his trimming of Rob Schneider. He is still annoying but I no longer felt the need to kick in the tv screen everytime he opened his mouth... LOL! I would have liked more of the bad dialogue/acting to have been cut, but where does one begin or end without it becoming a silent feature... LOL!

Overall, I enjoyed the new pacing and felt the story worked better.

Technically, all the cuts worked for me and flowed. As other have reviewed, I did not enjoy the added grain element to the picture. Since I believe the best part of this movie was the production design, the degraded picture choice felt more like a distraction than an interesting enhancement.

But if one is looking for some goofy, brainless, popcorn, good time action, I think Juice's Redemption edit fits the bill rather nicely.

Good work and thanks for the fun!

Well, it still ain't great, but this edit of Judge Dredd is a marked improvement over the theatrical cut. Cutting out the stuff that was an obvious detriment to the story (If you've seen this movie, you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.) makes it easier to focus on the stuff that works. The imaginative production design and the practical effects are a wonder, and Armand Assante's scenery chewing is a blast to watch. "Redemption" makes all that worth revisiting again. I wasn't really a fan of the added grain, as it looked like an obvious still overlay. For it to work as intended, it should have moved like actual film grain does. As it stands, it just looks like something you want to peel away. That being said, it's not a deal-breaker.

As a long term Judge Dredd fan, I was severely let down by the Stallone Dredd. OK, aside the helmet issue, it was just too dumb, convaluted and included things that really shouldn't have been there (Angel Gang, ABC Warrior).

Schneider is basically the Jar Jar Binks of the film. Having seen the recent Dredd(2012), which I consider to be FAR closer to the comics(and all around more superior), I was hopeful for this.

What works : Well, toning Rob Schneider right back to almost no dialogue at all, works surprisingly well. It's amazing how annoying he made the film. It really did feel quite significantly less annoying.

What could be improved on : Simply removing Rob Schneider doesn't fix everything. The Rico stuff could be trimmed to make him more ambiguous. Dredd and Hershey talking about 'feelings', the Angel Gang's appearance, the OTT Lawmaster stuff with failing bike joke.

The added grain to this film actually makes it look like a poor transfer, it wasn't necessary. Also, the quality of the La Roux track on the end credits is pretty poor, but I appreciate the nod to Dredd 2012.

The editing is seemless. Nothing jarring, no strange transitions or bad audio.

I enjoyed this more than I thought it would, but given my background of a hardcore Dredd fan - a Dredd edit can go much further! But Kudos for improving that film.

Judge Dredd is a movie I almost enjoy. Yes, it's just as bad as its reputation suggests. Yet I can't help but love the way it looks, that typically 90s flavor in the sets and props from back when it was all built and you can tell it's physically there, CGI being reduced to an absolute minimum. How I miss those days. I can enjoy garbage from back then better than objectively better movies from today in which even the toilet paper is CGI. Heck, I could even forgive the atrocious acting and stupid script of this one, if I'm in the mood for some mindless action fun of the Stallone brand. I don't even much care if he removes his helmet or kisses the girl at the end. Heck, him removing his helmet is completely irrelevant. This is Stallone. A superstar. Everyone knows how he looks like!

So why "almost"? The goddamn "comic relief" (relief from what, exactly?) Not only Rob Schneider but his character's very existence. As is the case with so many less than great movies, everything's funny except for the comedy. And disgracefully, he's in there almost all the time, so he can't be completely removed from it. Which, in my opinion, renders the movie fanedit-proof.

Still, Juice's version improves things a lot by removing lots and lots of the worst Schneider moments. And he does so wisely, by leaving in enough of them to give the guy a reason to exist. Having him in the background all the time but completely silent would have screamed "edited!" and made matters considerably worse. So, it's a very smartly done fanedit. But, one that merely improves on the original, yet doesn't save it. Dredd carries this flesh-and-bone-Jar-Jar around all the time like dead weight for no apparent reason, and dead weight he is for the movie. Nothing that Juice, or anyone else, could do about it really.

I didn't miss anything that was cut, and I particularly enjoy how this version gets us right into the action, without the extensive presentation of Schneider. I feel that some more bad one-liners could have been cut. Not all of them, of course, but even in a bad Stallone or Schwarzenegger action movie one has to know how many of these lines are needed, and when. The likes of "Judge Bitch" are too much, IMO.

Editing was overall well done, except for a hard cut in the music at 1:01:16, in between the speeder bike chase and them arriving in the apartment. Also, I'm afraid I'll be joining other viewers' opinion of the added grain not really working. It's a bit too exaggerated, plus it's permanently static, like if a still image was used to generate it, while real film grain moves all the time.

If you like the original, you'll probably like this one better. I know I did, and for what it is, it's great. Not a bad achievement for an unsalvageable movie!

First let me say GREAT JOB on the edit. The cuts were seamless and didn't feel out of place. Nor were there any continuity errors or plot holes from the loss of certain scenes. Sure the run-time is now less than 80 minutes long without credits, but like many fan edits, sometimes less is more.

As is, Judge Dredd is only a 2 or 3 out of 10 IMO. This edit however, brings the score up to about a 4 or 5 out of 10 OVERALL as a film. Editing wise it's a perfect 10, and I commend you for your efforts. It will definitely go in my collection, and I'm glad that I can now watch this movie again.