4K Ultra HD – Edition DE – Universal Pictures – 137 min – 09 June 2022
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 4K
• Standard HDR: Dolby Vision
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• English Dolby Atmos
• French (Parisian) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
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WORK – Californian Braking
Needing money to cover his wife's medical expenses, a veteran team up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a bank in Los Angeles. However, when their flight goes wrong, they hijack an ambulance carrying a seriously injured police officer and an ambulance attendant. In a high-speed pursuit, the two brothers must find a way to escape the law while keeping their hostages alive...
Driven by a Michael Bay to the top of its form, this muscular remake of a Danish drama of the same name is a non-stop action focus to the hallucinating formal fulgurations (thanks to the use of VR drones), where characters manage to exist in the heart of chaos. At the intersection of Heat and Speed, this adrenaline shoot that allows itself some controlled slippages on the side of black humour, transports us in a wildly disproportionate urban chase escaping the mediocrity of a large part of the blockbusters crossed. Great regressive show like Hollywood knew how to do it in the '90s!
IMAGE – Driving in Los Angeles
Captured in 6K and 8K (RED cameras) before designing an intermediate master in 4K, this flashing image (which undeniably carries the director's foot) hits the retina in UHD Dolby Vision... Because already incredible in Blu-ray, its visual features are here enhanced!
The definition is strengthened (more complex backgrounds), details are revealed with increased sharpness (see precision of faces, clothes and bodywork), colorimetric palette « Californian » (chaudium and saturated in sum) increases in vivacity (yellow vests, red ambulance, blue sky), the ardently pushed contrasts are even more frank (denser blacks and purer whites) and the light sources, better capped (goodbye overexposure), show increased intensity (explosions, sun, gyrophares, interior lighting).
SON – Pin-pon, Pin-pon!
Here's some thrills for this Dolby Atmos track that should serve as a matrix for all the action movies that aspire to a 3D soundtrack!
Reaching the optimal combustion of each element of the mixing without any difficulty, it delivers, not without a singular clarity, a constantly energizing spatialisation to the integration around (road traffic, urban atmospheres) and/or aerial (helicopters, sound alarms of intervention vehicles, ricochets of bullets) exemplary, perfectly restored voices, a dynamic to the exceptional extent (fire shots), admirably balanced ultra-physical basses (carambolages) and ubiquitous enveloping music as possible.
Equally active and inside despite less precision, the VF(F) comes out rather well (especially with the activation of a DSP of virtualization) in the face of the immoderation of the work that it sounds.
CONCLUSION – The art of rolling with open tomb
Festival of cracked plate and large cylinder capacity, this leak in front of a vehicle « all options » (the 4K Ultra HD is a top image demo and sound that embarks the latest Dolby technologies) really does not deserve to be shot at!
Artistic note
8
Video quality
10
Audio quality
10
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Good Michael Bay in the back and shape!
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And it's a crazy good!!! 🙂