Source United States | Publisher : Kino Lorber | Release date : 12 December 2023
Video format
2160p24 – Ratio 2.35
Dolby Vision / BT.2020 – HEVC encoding
Master intermediate 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9
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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 (DTS Neural:X), SVS SB-4000
- I am you, you are me
Castor Troy, a dangerous terrorist, falls into a coma following a confrontation with Sean Archer, a CIA agent. Thanks to surgery, Archer took Troy's face to make his brother confess the location of a bomb. But Troy comes out of the coma and takes in his turn the face of Archer...
For his third visit to Hollywood (after Manhunt and Broken Arrow), the master of the gunfight John Woo offered us a polar « double action » SF tinted with two « monsters » American cinema. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta crève l ́screen en trund and cop interchanged, the staging is virtuoso, the numerous settlements of armed accounts are fun (including a memorable one) Mexican impasse) and the Hitchcockian script, regularly touching the absolute melo, transcends its absurd initial postulate to address the fight between Good and Evil that torments man. Stuffed with pieces of bravery, this actioner, as lyrical as it was over the 90s, was quickly imposed as a classic of the genre.
IMAGE - Mirror, mirror
Benefiting from a new 4K scan of the original 35 mm negative, this excellent UHD Dolby Vision presentation with solid compression (an average bitrate of 87.9 Mb/s) impresses in many aspects...
The image is of excellent stability, very many film dusts have been eliminated (there is only a small handle left), the richness of the organic texture is displayed with a density of grain faithfully transcribed, fine details such as facial features and/or textile fibres are improved (even during intentionally veiled opening) and the increased resolution is visible (such as cables and linings).
The implementation of WCG and HDR technologies also brings admiration with a new radiance of the colorimetric palette (explosions are burning and bold primaries), a notable widening of the range of contrasts (black ink and piercing whites) and an increased vivacity of light sources (an average luminance of 282 cd/m2 and light peaks that tuminate the 1092 nitrites). Except in the last few seconds when she takes a strange blow of heat, the carnation is healthy.
HIS - Hallelujah!
Even if a Dolby Atmos runway would have been welcome (do not hesitate to activate a virtualization DSP to recover the verticality of the helicopter, the FBI's armed assault and water splashes during the boat chase), the multichannel soundtrack that remains equipped with such an exceptional mix (more than 25 years later) is a proposal of choice.
The dynamics are devastating, the pyrotechnic effects are really not lacking in punch, the spatialization is intense generosity, the activity of the surrounds abounds, the LFE channel simmers very regularly, the music of John Powell (at Media Ventures) delivers the goods and the dialogues are well prioritized before.
CONCLUSION - Losing face?
Film-synthesis of his then gifted director, this American fiction dynamited by his plastic virtuosity (coming from Hong Kong) successfully his plastic surgery on 4K Ultra HD support (A/V performances that have mouth)!
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