Top Gun: Maverick, the baroud honoring the US blockbuster?

IMAGE – Until the seventh sky!

Captured in 6K and resulting from an intermediate 4K master, the vertiginous images of the chef op的 Claudio Miranda shine with a thousand lights on this UHD Dolby Legendary vision transfer where, IMAX capture obliges during six passages (the final one to be breath-taking), alternate formats 2.39 and 1.90.

The definition is irreproachable here (the clarity of scenery and scenery is increased), the plans that are surgically accurate are even more detailed than in HD (faces, fuselage of aircraft, uniform bars), the colorimetric palette in California style (except the cold last straight line) is warmer (the carnation) and better saturated (the blue of the ocean, the orange hues of the sky), the contrasts increase in firmness (dense blacks and whites – snow – more immaculate) and the light sources, in addition to avoiding the overexposures of its counterpart CSD (the clouds and rocky surfaces are more designed), display with much more intensity (sunrises and sunsets, the projectors of the Lockheed Martin SR-72 hangar, the interior lighting of the aircraft carrier, etc.).

SON – Turbulences in the cockpit

As close as possible to the turbines, these audio tracks encoded both in Dolby Atmos (a first for Paramount editor) will nail you on the spot!

Powerful, visceral and particularly well distributed, they send out pâté from the opening on the aircraft carrier until the end generic. The voices are clear (the dubbing of the VF is perfectly incorporated into the mixing), the dynamics fly as soon as it can (the aircraft scenes and the sequence of the sailboat), the basses show great authority (the infra-graves are insane during the thrusts of the engines), the spatialisation deploys with as precision as well as generosity its pyrotechnic effects (the trajectories of the vehicles, the missiles) and its environmental atmospheres (the wind, the waves) on all the canals (which include, among other things, the radio messages of the pilots and the overflights of light hunters who use the full of verticality), and the score composed by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe benefits from a deviating magnitude.

While she must be content with a « small » Dolby Digital 5.1 on the Blu-ray, the 3D VF of this 4K edition is as good a driver as the VO, if it is that it has a little more difficulty to let go during the sudden accelerations of the soundtrack.

CONCLUSION – Tom Cruise gives aiiiles

While he takes on the fabric of an old hero, the aces transmits his know-how to the younger generation and regains the drunkenness of speed in a nostalgic and spectacular superproduction that sprays the sound wall in 4K Ultra HD (the demo disc of the year 2022)!