4K Ultra HD – Edition FR – MGM United Artists – 145 min – 23 October 2019
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 2K
• Standard HDR: Dolby Vision
• Ratio: 2.40
Soundtrack
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
• French SDR 5.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
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WORK – Rebirth of Agent 007
For his first mission, James Bond confronts the powerful private banker of international terrorism, Le Cipher. To finish ruining it and dismantling the largest criminal network, Bond has to beat it during a high-risk poker game at Casino Royale. The very beautiful Vesper, attached to the Treasury, accompanies him in order to ensure that Agent 007 takes care of the money of the British government which serves as his bet, but nothing will happen as planned. While Bond and Vesper are trying to escape attempts to assassinate the Cipher and his men, other feelings arise between them, which will only make them more vulnerable...
21st part of the saga James Bond, this dark and brutal opus that renews the myth « 007 » With a fiery and dark Daniel Craig, is an espionage film of a rare density for frankness. The staging is spectacular, the actors glamorous, the intrigue is more ground-to-earth than the usual well conducted, the characters developed, the very impressive action scenes and the convincing romance (!). A high-end episode.
IMAGE – Play his last card
Increased sharpness (environments), clearer details (clothes), more subtle grain management, wider and energetic colours (see blues and greens), increased brightness (the brightness of sunny exteriors) and improved contrasts (whites are more intense and blacks more penetrating).
But the presence of the few small spots and the rare noisy planes already present on the Blu-ray imply that the present UHD transfer uses the same master. However, these images encoded in Dolby Vision are very beautiful and solidify the already superb images of HD edition.
SON – You Know My Name
Despite the absence of a 3D audio mix, this wide and intense soundtrack remains worthy of James Bond. Explosive and subtle, it is immersive as possible. The dynamics are fully engaged, the dialogues are clear, the pyrotechnic effects are powerful, the atmospheres invade the sound scene, the surrounds are perfectly integrated, the music is enveloping and the basses are remarkably deep
The VF, less rich and intense than the VO, still carries out the mission.
CONCLUSION – Every legend has a beginning
If he uses bluff to win this high-risk poker game, this 4K Ultra HD allows one of the highlight points of the Bond franchise to be less narrow in his 007 tuxedo!
Artistic note
8.5
Video quality
8.5
Audio quality
9.5
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The best James Bond for me!
By the best concerning me, but in the best yes... GoldenEye of the same Martin Campbell. 😉
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