Zack Snyder

WORK – And the naughty little duck became Swan!

Bruce Wayne is determined to ensure that Superman's ultimate sacrifice is not in vain; For this, with the help of Diana Prince, he sets up a plan to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an imminent apocalyptic threat. The task proved to be more difficult than Bruce imagined, as each of the recruits had to face the demons of his past and surpass them to come together and form an unprecedented hero league. Now united, will Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and Flash succeed in saving the planet of Steppenwolf, DeSaad, Darkseid and their terrible intentions?

Far from the dawn rendered by the mercenary Joss Whedon, the maltreated Justice League signed by his true genitor (estimated Zack Snyder) is today a great epic film of almost four hours (divided into six chapters) that breathes the love of a culture (superheroes) and a universe (DC Comics).

Beyond countless differences, the story and the characters are enriched, the main antagonist finally has a mouth, the atmosphere is much darker, the monumental action scenes are endowed with a clarity that was missing from the truncated version, the grandiose staging carries the visual leg of his filmmaker (which is finished with gross calibration) and the emotions are not lacking.

Best Superheroes movie of all time? In deed!

IMAGE – Magic square

While the least image (in 4:3 format for a vertical gain that adds grandeur to the frame) is a real master canvas, that is little to say that the present 4K Ultra HD (two discs for optimal compression) burys his colleague published in 2018!

Plastically splendid, each plane is magnified by the use of an intermediate 4K master (formerly a DI 2K) and an HDR10 encoding whose color calibration has been radically reworked. The granular structure (in the passages captured in 35 mm) regains its superb, the colorimetric palette now colder and desaturated (or simply monochrome) brings darkness to the narrative, and the contrasts assert much better.

In view of the new Blu-ray, the images delivered by this UHD transfer are even more stunning with an increased density of details (notably in the 70 mm IMAX filmed sequences), shades with the denser chromatic finesse, sharper contrasts (cf. the clarity of whites and the richness of blacks) and more heroic light sources (Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, Flash flashes, reflections on Cyborg's Lexoskeleton, public lighting, various electromagnetic radiations) that allow the high luminances to gain in precision (flames).

SON – The Song of the Gods

Dolby Atmos soundtracks with a wide dynamic range, deep bass (they send heavy), wide spatialization, enveloping score (the lyrical flights are masterful), well-prioritized dialogues at the front and effects/ambiences, well distributed in space, which effectively populate calm moments such as action scenes (including confrontations with Darkseid and Steppenwolf).

Immersive as possible and not necessarily free in its demonstration of force, this XXL soundtrack which never forgets to escape an adequate air life (as in the many aerial attacks of the Parademons) exploits an outfield full of brains (while it was only touched before) thanks to surround channels which do not cease to activate.

CONCLUSION – CDEU apotheosis

With this Ultra HD Blu-ray as neat as the work it delivers, the monumental Justice League of which Zack Snyder dreamed reveals himself to us, mere mortals, as he should have always been. But as he went black and white on HBO Max, we'll have to « content » Here's his majestic color costume!