Source United States | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 16 January 2024
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 1.78
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
Indonesian Dolby Atmos (Original Music)
Indonesian Dolby Atmos (International Music)
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9 | Audio : 10
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Test equipment and condition (Config. HP: 5.1.4)
Video broadcaster : Philips 65OLED908 (Dolby Vision Filmmaker)
Sources : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference | Zappiti Reference
Pregnant : Sennheiser Ambeo Soundbar (Dolby Atmos), SVS SB-4000
WORK - The Infernal Tower
A member of an elite police unit, Rama landed in the early morning at the foot of a delapidated building, a den of killers, rapists and burglars. His mission: capture Tama, a drug baron, who organized his headquarters on the top floor of the tower...
As well as the cinema of John Carpenter as the creative style of Tsui Hark, this wild and painfully visceral action film taking place in a minimalist decor instantly imposes itself as a classic of the genre. The staging of Gareth Evans The choreography is fluid and inventive (the practice of the Pencak-silat), the roaring action is incredibly thrilling, the characters are well worked (whether on the good or the bad side of the law) and the physical performance of the actors (or rather athletes) is impressive. Whatever then the avalanche of clichés and the simplicity of a scenario pretext since the show is total. It's a strong castagin here!
IMAGE - Dance with the blows
Crossed by big compression problems (digital noise, color banding), crowded with DNR (well-pasted textures) and visually dreadful (horribly desaturated bluish pallet, unhealthy carnation and odieuously lightened dark scenes), the damn bad Blu-ray gets screwed by the present UHD Dolby Vision transfer (from a 4K scan of the original negative) whose new calibration was supervised by the director (who said the first version was deeply imperfect due to his inexperience in the field). And even if limited by the source (sweetness and peaty granularity persist), this complete overhaul is one of the most striking upgrades of the support...
Helped it is true by a radically revitalized colorimetric palette where austere tones give way to much more natural hues. The colors are warmer, the primary ones finally manifest and the skin covers health since now saturated. To convince yourself, take a look at the following comparative images:
But this is not all to the extent that the other components of the image, supported by a prodigious average flow of 99.4 Mb/s, are not left behind...
The organic aspect of photography is now authentic, the level of detail has been considerably refined (the dilapidated walls, facial hair, wounds) and the contrasts, finally resembling something, are otherwise more thorough. The places are thus plunged into a very relevant darkness (an average luminance of 91 cd/m2) with much deeper blacks and light sources (capable of peaking at 599 nits) much more realistic.
SOUND - It's bim, bam, boom 🎶
Essentially frontal without neglecting an assertive rear scene (the out-of-field effects come in), these two Dolby Atmos soundtracks (where only music changes) of dreadful efficiency frapple everything on their passages...
The spatialisation is totally immersive thanks to great directional precision (movements of attackers, the rain of bullets), the voices are intelligible even in the midst of the ambient chaos, the dynamic is of crazy intensity, the LFE channel intensely hammers the chest (the weight of the detonations and the punitive fury of the blows) and the score, whether you opt for the original (air guitar riffs) or the international (signed electro-rock) Joseph Trapanese and Mike Shinoda), is engaging as possible. As for the verticality of the mix, quite discreet, it enhances some atmospheres (reverberations) and the score.
CONCLUSION - Crazy Raid?
While he had resurrected the action at a time when Hollywood was already beginning to snag, this pure urban survival with the joyous brutality beats his mouth in 4K Ultra HD thanks to A/V performances that hit hard! You want some more? Ring at the ultra-generous Dredd, his level neighbor who cumulates the duties of cop, judge and executioner...
[...] the staggered humour where a whole section of the action cinema is summoned (Kill Bill, The Raid, Hunger Games, Kingsman, John Wick), is a declaration of love for art [...]