Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date 24 April 2024
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.78
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 8.5
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Dolby Dark Vision)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - Two brothers and one octopus
While Arthur Curry faced his responsibilities as King of the Seven Seas, an ancient power which had long been buried was unleashed. After witnessing the effect of these dark forces, Aquaman must forge a difficult alliance with an old enemy and embark on a perilous journey to protect his family, his kingdom and the world from irreversible devastation.
Despite a tsunami of digital special effects by too visible and a narration drowned by concessions, cuts, rewrites and other reshoots, this buddy movie deprecated with heavy jokes makes one meet adventure cinema and will operate for a colorful and uncomplexed pop entertainment where the ecologist metaphor, as discreet as a large cockalot in a pool, is just a justification for the generous armed confrontations that flow with waves. Not the disaster announced no, more like a big Z series at over $200 million!
« I'm a father, a brother, a warrior... I am the king of Atlantis! »
IMAGE - Sea kitsch
From an IMAX 8K source (Panavision Millennium DXL2 digital cameras) and presented in its entirety in 1.78 format, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer with a stunning HEVC encoding (an average bitrate slightly exceeding 64 Mb/s) is worthy of all praise, since technically impeccable (for those who like the bright digital) in addition to highlighting the exotic photography of the chief operator Don Burgess where the hyper-tridimensional wide angle was prioritized during shooting.
The already fantastic definition of Blu-ray has been (a little) enhanced for plans (even the darkest) to the exceptional sharpness, the details are even more striking (the costumes, the decors, the warships, the weapons) and the colorimetric palette to the invariably luxuriant primaries is more richly saturated (the green magic of Kordax, the fluorescent kaleidoscope of the Atlantean Empire, the wide red eyes of Black Manta's combination).
The reinforced contrasts feature ink blacks and immaculate whites (without any information being eclipsed in the low and high luminances) and the light sources, openly impressive (Average Peak Nits of 713 cd/m2 and a MaxCCL of 1348 bits), benefit from a nicely increased intensity (energy beams, marine bioluminescence, reflections on watery expanses, flame heat).
SON - BOOOOM, GLOU-GLOU, TSING
As generic as the epic composition (signed once again Rupert Gregson-WilliamsThis mix of Dolby Atmos (in VO as in VF) frustrates in its limited exploitation of the height channels (some notes of music and that's all) while the bottoms and the final act (the cracks and collapses of the ice) were suitable for exercise. Fortunately, its other components assure.
The dynamic range does not make the half measure, the voices that can move in the sound scene are perfectly intelligible, the horizontal spatialization is far from being measured (noise you want it here), the rears are simmering (the out-of-field influence) and the impact of the basses, even if more moderate than on the the first opus, there is no shortage of punch (the blows carried, the sonic cannon, the explosions).
CONCLUSION - End of reign?
Completing the first The film world DC 10 years old, the second part of the adventures dedicated to the most marine superheroes is a 100% swaying nanar whose apparent exuberance finds an ally of weight in the person of a state-of-the-art 4K Ultra HD (Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision technologies) that, like the oceans, is unleashing!
Oh, but he's Akwakwak's cousin?
And yes, the royal duck is his cousin! 🤣🤣🤣