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Beautiful, moving film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I saw Judex in 1964 in the movie Theater movie Niza in Barcelona. I was a teenager and I remained shocked by the images fascination. I review the film time to time. It is a masterpiece to recover the spirit of the old shows by Louis Feuillade before the I World War, with love and taking care of infinite details. If we compare the images with those taken in fresh air by Feuillade in 1912-14 Paris we can realize the accurate work of the art directors. All movie is an exercise of cinematographic calligraphy that only a poet can do. Franju and Luis Buñuel are the greatest surrealist in cinema history. This sequence of the masked dance is the best I have never seen: there is magic in the pigeon mask by Edith Scob..

There is, as the Good Book tells us, nothing new under the sun but old wine in new bottles occasionally has a lot going for it. In 1981 Spielberg let it be known he was harking back to the serials of his youth when he created Indiana Jones but Georges Franju beat him to it by almost twenty years when, in 1963, he remade Louis Feuillade's silent 12-episode Judex; nothing new squared. The story begins at a masked ball and the entire film is a ball for the viewer with a real magician, Channing Pollock, cast as the eponymous superhero, Robin Hood with a French accent whose life is one long crusade to right wrongs, to, as it were, take injustice from the wealthy and redistribute it as justice to the poor. The film is beautifully shot in black and white which allows for poetic effects hard to achieve in colour and cat-suited Francine Berg, who is also a mistress of disguise, makes a worthy opponent for Judex; the climactic roof-top fight with Sylva Koschina - a passing equestrienne - is ten times more effective in black and white than it would be in colour. Overall this is a wonderful nostalgic romp which helped see off the pretentious new wavelet once and for all and if that weren't enough (which it is) Judex is a superb and unmissable film in its own right.

Every bit as good as the original serial (and shorter!), Judex is a masterpiece. I've had quite a few arguments over whether this was the director's best with partisans of "Eyes Without a Face"... though it's a close call. Edith Scob's performance is astonishing (more so for the early '60s) - she also appeared in Bunuel's exquisite "Milky Way", but little else.It's too bad that Franju never had the chance to make more films - he was a real master.Maybe TCM will book Judex on one of those late Friday cult programs. Until they do, I found a fairly good copy through Atlas Visuals.

I have to agree with the review by Swanger2001. After the initial set up of the characters and the amazing Masked Ball scene, the film settles into boring dialogue and badly staged action. I'm curious to hear what a French-speaking person thought of the acting. I don't speak it myself, but this one of the few times I've seen a French film and thought "this (acting) seems really lousy - like a low budget exploitation film". I don't know if this film is available on DVD. I saw a VHS copy courtesy of Something Weird Video...and the subtitles left something to be desired. Film quality was mediocre.Worth seeing if you liked "Eyes without a Face", but not essential viewing.