4K Ultra HD – US Edition – Universal Pictures – 109 min – 03 May 2022
Video format
• Intermediate Master: 2K
• Standard HDR: HDR10
• Ratio: 2.35
Soundtrack
• English DTS:X
• French (Quebec) SDR 5.1
Subtitles
• English
• French
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as the viewing equipment specified 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 – Group invitation for « Large calibres »
Stanley Locke, deputy director of the FBI, sends his best agents, Richard Messner and Donald Carruthers, to Lake Tahoe. Their mission is to find Buddy "Aces" Israel, a shady magician from Las Vegas, and to protect him from Primo Sparazza, a big hat from the Mafia that offers a million dollars to make him disappear. Attracted by money, mercenaries, murderers and hired killers from all walks of life land in Lake Tahoe...
Influenced by Tarantino's cinema and film Snatch Guy Ritchie, Mi$e at prices is a movie of gangsters decomplexed and nervous with the look of comic book for adults. Both fun, crazy and a particularly graphic violence (cf. anthological final carnage), this pure juice entertainment embarks a huge casting (Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Andy Garcia, Ben Affleck, Alicia Keys) that entertains to perform characters all more barred than each other. The falsely chaotic narration is controlled, the nerve staging and the salty replicas. It's a very fun mess!
IMAGE – Blood and lead
An abundance of details, ultra-saturated colors, solid blacks and punchy contrasts for a very dynamic rendering whose presence of a light grain only enhances the beauty of the images... That was what I said 10 years ago when the Blu-ray was released. Today is even better!
More filmic with a better structured silver texture (a 35 mm shooting), this highly manipulated post-prod image shows an undeniable upgrade to UHD HDR10. The increased clarity of the frame is evident with a otherwise finer pitch (even in softer planes), the criard colorimetric palette (the shades are massively exaggerated) and warmer is granted even worse primers (the blue sky, the blood spots), the contrasts still as supported benefit from richer blacks (the shadows gain in depth) and much healthier whites (the yellowish clouds visible on Master 1080p CSD are ancient history), the light sources generously stylized, much less « disorders » that in the past, show an unprecedented shine until then (the hospital and bar ceiling lights, the hotel wall panels, reflective surfaces in elevators), and compression does not show any weakness.
SON – Tchatche and detonations
Sound tracks of great aggressiveness (for subtlety it will be ironed) that fervently solicit horizontal enclosures (balls fume in all directions and debris fly everywhere) and love the exaggeration of the slightest noise. As of course, the dialogues are perfectly audible despite the chaos in the room.
At the game of differences, the VO encoded in DTS:X makes height to the decapitating musical score. Nevertheless, only one effect (the descent of a helicopter) uses the verticality of the sound. More muscular, the VF(Q) brings firmness to an LFE channel that never strikes hard enough in its yet lossless consoeur.
CONCLUSION – Totally lit the pass tower?
Laughing at easy trigger thugs who hope to touch the jackpot, the juicy contract launched on Buddy's head "Aces" Israel is more likely to be filled in 4K Ultra HD!
Artistic note
8
Video quality
9
Audio quality
8.5
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