Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date : 08 May 2024
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.85
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 8
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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 (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - Eye for eye, blood for blood
The day before their wedding, Eric Draven and Shelly Webster were brutally murdered. A year later, a raven brings Eric back to life in the heart of a city immersed in darkness. For Shelly's sake and for justice to be done, Eric is going to let himself go where his revenge calls him...
Magistrally interpreted by the late Brandon Lee, this fantastic drama poignant to virtuoso staging, unique gothic-melancholic atmosphere and lyrical rock music remains, 30 years after its release, an unbeatable relic of the cinema of the 90s. And while he takes off to externalize his pain in a deadly revenge, this deeply romantic gothic jewel preserves the particularly strong cult that has stuck to his skin for so many years. A classic!
« If the beings we have are torn away from us, so that they will always live, we must never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but true love is eternal. »
IMAGE - Dark City
Deprived of physical media for an eternity in France (specifically in 2002 when the THX DVD was released) Touchstone), The Crow We arrive directly in 4K Ultra HD with a superb UHD Dolby Vision transfer from a brand new 4K restoration whose calibration has been supervised in HDR by its head op Dariusz Wolski (Caribbean Pirates, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, The Mission, House of Gucci)... But does he make the difference to the Blu-ray published by Lionsgate in 2011? Very clearly yes!
Compression, with an average bitrate measured at 58.6 Mb/s, is much better than in the past and does not leave any flaw in encoding (the video noise is from ancient history) while the ubiquitous darkness, the rolling rain and the smoky smoke invade the place. As for the rather marked granular texture of the work (a 35 mm capture with low budget), it was fully preserved, in the image of the rest of its visual signature...
The definition has been improved (the city's wide plans are becoming more precise), the details that are widely enhanced (the face pores, the advanced dilapidation of the decorations and the fabrics of clothing show increased finesse) and some slightly tightened framings. As of course, the plans in withdrawal do not result from a defect but are the consequence of not always happy development and optical effects. Moreover, the fact of not inflating them with any digital processing is to the credit of those responsible for this 4K restoration.
The unsaturated colorimetric palette (or even monochrome) with soft hues, where the colors really explode only at rare moments (the flashbacks, the bouquet of flowers and the braziers), enhances its saturation (this is noticeable with the yellows and reds), tempers its excess bluishes, dismisses its greenish drifts and assigns discreet touches of magenta (visible for example on the makeup of his tormented hero).
And allowing themselves to accentuate the ambient darkness without ever crushing the elements of the frame, in the same way that they purify the balance of the whites without being surprised by an excess of intensity (an average luminance of 155 cd/m2 for a max of 370 nits), the contrasts do not cease to celebrate the beauty sum all expressionist of the shadows and lights of a photograph still today to no other like.
SON - It can'train all the time
Clear voices, a consistent dynamic in action, heavy bass (the blast of explosions), a well mobilized rear scene (the pyrotechnic effects and/or urban atmospheres) and musical notes (between the atmospheric score of Graeme Revell and an original hard rock band) enveloping for a VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 engaging even though dated in its sounds, where the intensity of mixing counterbalances its lack of finesse. Despite the (rarely regrettable) absence of a 3D runway, enabling a virtualization DSP benefits the rain and the helicopter.
Less size and sound cutting below (see the shooting in the Top Dollar den) reduce the range of the VF Dolby Digital 5.1 whose (very good) dubbing testifies to a certain promenence at the front.
CONCLUSION - Dying can wait
Posthumous tribute to his main actor (victim on the filming tray of a metal residue stuck in the gun of a Magnum 44 gun loaded blank) and to Bethany, fiancée of the cartoonist James O的 Barr mortally hit by a drunken driver fifteen years ago (an intimate mourning from which the underground comics will be born) The Crow), the classic and timeless cult ofAlex Proyas Redeploys its wings on 4K Ultra HD support (fired A/V services) for a thirtieth anniversary that sees it rise from the dead!
Nice test! Both versions seem to be respectful of the original work.
That's right!