Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 05 July 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8 | Audio : 7
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L (Professional HDR)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar Max (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The robbers of the extreme
In order to expose bank robbers, Johnny Utah, a young and ambitious FBI agent, infiltrates the Southern California surfers. Under the influence of the charismatic Bodhi, he then discovers a hidden part of his personality that pushes him ever further in taking the risk...
Long before with large cylinders or its remake doped with strong sensations, this timeless story with multiple levels of reading was transformed, in front of the homoerotic camera of Kathryn Bigelow (Deminers, Zero Dark Thirty), in an ode to the release-charge against the system where the beginner Keanu Reeves (Speed, Matrix, John Wick), then parachuted to the side of a Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Road House) at the climax of his career, would follow an initiatory path among the rushing and clouds during which he would be confronted with his own limits during action scenes full of adrenaline. A model of the kind that soon became cult for a whole generation.
« This system kills spirituality and turns the ocean into a septic tank. To all zombies in their coffin-mobile we will show that the human mind is alive! »
IMAGE - At the heart of the waves
This UHD HDR10 transfer, based on the 4K master of the HDR10, is based on a 35 mm (not original negatives) interface. Shh! Studios (except for the absence of Dolby Vision calibration whose presence adds punch to the US edition of 2023) benefits from the Californian photo by the chief operator Donald Peterman.
The definition is firmer than in the past (backgrounds gain in precision), the details are otherwise sharper (faces, costumes, decors), the fully organic agentic texture is more homogeneous (stock-shots melt better), the cleaning performed has not been done half (despite a handful of dusts) and the HEVC compression follows the rate with an average flow exceeding 77 Mbit/s.
Far from the dull and unravelled look of the previous Blu-ray, the image benefits from a revitalized colorimetric palette and retouched contrasts... Even though everything is not perfect, like skins now a little too tanned, blacks still a little bit rough despite more legible American nights and the brightness again relatively dark (an Average Peak Nits of 213 cd/m2).
However, the colours benefit from much warmer and solar shades without having to undergo the old yellowish drifts, the high luminances are better exposed (cloudy formations) and the lighting displays with increased intensity (reflections on water and vehicle body, campfire on the beach). MaxCCL was measured at 787 nits.
SON - Stop me if you can
By too frontal and mixed at a low level of listening (will have to push the potard to properly enjoy it), the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 (24-bit, 3.87 Mbit/s) surfs however according to electro-orchestral music of Mark Isham whose breadth and openness make a strong impression... In contrast to a certain sound imbalance, audible by intermittently, where voices (regularly clear) move away and certain effects (some waves and shots) show a forced exaggeration.
For the rest, it develops quite enveloping atmospheres (rain, road traffic), opens its acoustic field to the slightest enlivened scene (surfing, robbery, pursuit, parachute) and exploits deep bass (cf. wave violence in Australia). However, do not expect a real right/left distinction at the rear since its origins 4.0 (where this track operated in Dolby Digital by the 20th Century Fox in 2008?) prevent it.
More choked and suffering from a terribly deaf dubbing, the VF DTS-HD MA 2.0 surround (24-bit, 962 kbps) is yet more harmonious in places (its dynamic not being caricatural) but loses in the back presence. Again, why didn't you take over soundtrack 5.1 of the 2003 DVD?
CONCLUSION - Free as water
Take your chair mask, your board and your parachute, to swim against the current with this sports polar of the 90s that, on 4K Ultra HD support (at A/V less bruised than counted), will make you addicted to the thrills!
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