4K Ultra HD – US Edition – Sony Pictures – 158 min – 19 January 2021
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 2K
• Standard HDR: HDR10
• Ratio: 2.40
Soundtrack
• English Dolby Atmos
• French (Parisian) Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
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WORK – It's the end of the world!
The Mayans warned us. December 21, 2012 will mark the end of the world. As the tectonic plates begin to slide and the scientific community secretly panics international politics, the first material and human damage bears witness to the prophecy in progress. Jackson Curtis, a failed novelist and divorced father, embarks with his family on a dangerous journey to save his life and that of his loved ones...
With 2012, Roland Emmerich reconnects with the film catastrophe by offering us a best of films of the genre (a little bit of Pic de Dante, of Deep Impact of the Day after and Poseidon). Thus, the film alternates cataclysm on the ground, in the air and on the sea, at a frenetic rhythm with scenes of visually demented anthologies (dizzying SFX).
And if the clichés are not avoided (such as the American President's speech, the recomposed family, the rescue of the dog) and the scenario does not shine by its originality, the adventure is thrilling and the spectacle always generous.
So here's a highly spectacular blockbuster that makes it a little too much in all areas!
IMAGE – All fire, all flame
Despite some variations on the definition side (the wide planes at CGI are a little softer) and the presence of d的aliasing/colour banding on certain 100% digital plans/textures, this UHD HDR10 transfer remains a good upgrade compared to the aging HD presentation.
The details are clearer, the colorimetric palette with warmer shades increases in vibrance, the contrast rate is otherwise wider (brighter whites and darker blacks) and the light sources (even if the image is darker overall) are split by a modern shine (cf. the lava torrent in Hawaii).
SON – Symphony of destruction
Blowing the previous DTS-HD MA 5.1 track of the Blu-ray, Dolby Atmos mixing will shake your couch.
With a demented dynamic, surgical precision and thundering bass, this reference track brings the height scene into the world as soon as the apocalypse arrives on Earth.
Relegated to a small Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding which does not prevent it from remaining demonstrative on the side of spatialisation (horizontal), the VF cannot approach the acoustic cataclysm of its consoeur.
CONCLUSION – Family Survival Guide
Spectacular and generous without being original, this impressive show takes advantage of the 4K Ultra HD support for « destroy » Our senses as never before with its many sequences of mass destruction.
Artistic note
7
Video quality
8
Audio quality
10
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