Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Second Sight | Release date 30 September 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
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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 (Dolby Atmos | DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
WORK - Serial self-stopper
Jim Halsey agrees to transport a car across the United States to avoid costly travel costs. On a rainy night, he took a hitchhiker named John Ryder, a strange and disturbing character.
Inspired by The true story of Billy Cook, a serial killer who traumatized the United States in the early 1950s by killing six people during a 22-day drive between Missouri and California, this well-oiled funerary road-movie with script mechanics finds its road sorry at the crossing of John Carpenter (Assault, New York 1997) and John Ford (The Fantastic Horse). And as generous in motorized action as in joined tension, this cycle of violence that nothing seems to be able to stop is personified by a Rutger Hauer to the terrifying charism that, like a Freddy Krueger whose asphalt would have replaced the world of dreams, arises when one expects the least. Awarded by the Grand Prix du Jury at the 1986 Cognac Police Film Festival, this classic still stands well. We're going on a stopover or what?
« - What do you want? - I want you to stop me. »
IMAGE - At the edge of dawn
From a 4K scan of the original 35 mm negatives (found by the editor when they were long lost) with Dolby Vision calibration supervised and approved by his director Robert Harmon, this UHD transfer to the average bitrate of 91.6 Mbps terrace its French SDR counterpart (resulting from a raw scan of the 35 mm interpositive stored in London which was first worked by Light Orfeo before being sent for alterations to the laboratory Subtilly) and allows the signed photograph John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road) to recover its ejected twilight aspect from the passenger compartment since its beginnings on physical support (due to outrageously enhanced brightness and drastic color collapse).
Where the V1 of the French master (a V2 « corrected » being announced for October 11 next via standard edition with key exchange procedure) showed a reduction of the digital noise (of the DNR) in automatic control, reinforcements of contours (of the edge enhancement) you want to see and a gentle, capricious calibration (not always connecting one plane to the other in addition to exposing here and there a strange blue drift) where some images betrayed a bad conversion HDR to SDR (with this so characteristic fader), that of Second Sight followed a real manufacturer revision...
The granular structure (heavier in the dark) is now properly maintained, the chromatic aberrations and other distortions due to the anamorphic format have been found, the definition will no longer have to undergo any decrease in diet (the few sweetnesses being inherent in the source) and the details, of very high accuracy, are returned with a much more appreciable finesse (textiles, dust, dashboards, porosity of the wood, counters, furnishing and close-up on faces).
The colorimetric palette, which re-enters its pimpance astray for a long time in the desert expanses (more varied earthy tones including a wonderful sandy coloration), takes advantage of bolder primaries (John Ryder's steel blue eyes, the red paint behind Jim Halsey in the drive-in, the blue skies extending as far as possible, the scarmosis blood), massively revitalized hues (the heat of the flames, the vibrating sunsets, the chlorophyll of the rare plants) and a more natural carnation.
As for the contrasts, fuel to the black ink (far from being washed up here) and to the cleanly narcotic whites, they display a night that is really it (it is no longer veiled) and light sources with increased brightness (vehicle headlights, solar radiation, reflections on water and bodywork, public lighting). Note that the opening logo TriStar Pictures returns before the opening credits.
SON - On the highway to hell 🎶
Encoded in DTS-HD MA (24-bit, 1585 kbps), the VO 2.0 surround that corresponds to the original Dolby Stereo (4 channels) mix is as wide and animated as possible. The separation of channels is significant and the clarity of restitution is efficient.
Coming to amplify the stereo track components without distorting it, this new Dolby Atmos mix (24-bit, 4276 kbps) maintains a good safety distance with any form of revisionism. Point of change in the sound therefore, but increased immersion (noise coming from outside the vehicles) and an entirely different engine power (dynamics trigger the turbo, pyrotechnic effects tap into the switch and bass spin as never before). The dialogues are clear, the electro-jazz score of Mark Isham installs comfortably on the passenger seat (a great proximity) and the verticality is not left on the bottom side (drops of rain, ice breaks, shower water, overflight of a helicopter).
CONCLUSION - Stop me if you can
After the exit of the French edition signed Sidonis (pending at least the new master who should correct several problems) this bad religious encounter which deliberately evokes the brutal transition to adulthood (where violence is necessary to get out of it) finds in this British 4K Ultra HD the much sought after vehicle (a box of luxury and beautifully rotten A/V performances). Surprisingly, his chest is filled with bonuses (especially when it has a very large volume). Go to your dealership!
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