4K Ultra HD – UK Edition – 20th Century Studios – 115 min – 04 October 2021
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 2K
• Standard HDR:HDR10
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• EnglishDolby Atmos
• French (Parisian) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as theviewing equipmentspecified and used by each tester of the MaG team, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence the rating. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
WORK – GTA Online, the film
A bank employee, discovering one day that he is actually just a background character in an online video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, even if he rewrites it. Moving into a world that knows no limits, he will do everything possible to save him in his own way, before it is too late...
Weared by a Ryan Reynolds 2.0 in very great shape, this family feel good movie is a second-degree meta-doped action comedy full of controlled references to geek culture (with video games in mind) and sprinkled with sparks of emotion. Spectacular, inventive and very fun, this tasty entertainment imposes as theTruman Showof our ultra-connected time !. What if the NPCs dream of electric sheep?
IMAGE – In the heart of Free City
As the frame of video games allows unlimited visual potential, it's no wonder that this UHD HDR10 transfer is also chiaded... Even if it is less luminous than its overexuberant HD counterpart (it is too day all the time!).
Captured in 6.5K, the images drawn here from a DI 2K are striking throughout. Brilliant without excess (as opposed to Blu-ray), they are full of complex details (scrutinize Easter eggs in the background) fabulously rendered (cf. the wild skins of the players) and appear with a rather hallucinating three-dimensionality (the passages in POV). More precise than in HD, especially during the rare scenes where the darkness occurs (the planks) thanks to more precise contrasts (blacks are ink and healthier whites), they also enjoy otherwise richer (primary) and nuanced colors (carnation, vehicle body, explosions) as well as better tamed light sources (PC monitors, inlays through the glasses).
SON – Keepin ♪♪♪
Voluntaryly exaggerated in Free City (we're in a video game after all) and more realistic in the real world (offices and that's all), this wrapping Dolby Atmos soundtrack is particularly enlivened.
Loaded with heavy bass and equipped with an incredible surround activity (the car chase perfectly illustrates my saying), this violently dynamic 3D mixing and living at the possible use of the height channels as soon as the occasion presents itself (the most striking being the location of the « bonus objects »)... That is to say all the time, at least in-game (95% of the work) ! Besides this, the dialogues are clear and the score engaging.
Less muscular and more restricted in its spatialization, the VF n « almost » HD.
CONCLUSION – Let the NPCs emancipate...
To no doubt one of the good surprises of the year, this science-fiction sandbox must be « played » in 4K Ultra HD (if only for the VO Atmos absent from Blu-ray). I do not wish you a good day but a great day!
Artistic note
7.5
Video quality
9.5
Audio quality
10
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The film itself does not tell me too much, but just for audio I ask to listen!
Top!
And the movie is really great, you'll see. 😉
Hi, I just discovered the movie, at the time of its release in the theater the trailer didn't make me want, too bad because this film is much more interesting than I thought, it even reminded Ready Player One that is little to say. So seen in UHD on tv oled and sound bar dolby atmos, really a great day.
On the other hand it seems to me that there is a small error in your description, the DI is rather in 2K as indicated on the other sites and not in 4K?
A great day,
Indeed, the characteristics of the DI changed on IMDB (i.e. I checked when writing the test). So I'll fix it! Thanks, Lalalala. 😉