4k Review of the Revenant on a Lg Uj 657700

Revenant, The (4K UHD Review)

• Review Date: Apr 25, 2016
• Format: Blu-ray Disc
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Managing director

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Release Date(s)

2015 (April 19, 2016)

Studio(due south)

Regency/RatPac-Dune (20th Century Fox)

• Film/Program Grade: A
• Video Grade: A+
• Audio Grade: A
• Extras Grade: B

Review

[Editor's Note: Equally Ultra HD Blu-ray is a new format, much is yet to be settled in terms of establishing a proper display calibration baseline for evaluating UHD content. What follows is our all-time attempt to offering specific impressions on the format'south A/V quality improvements given those constraints. Annotation that the display used for this review is Samsung'southward UN65JS9500, which is compliant with the full HDR10/Rec.2020 "Ultra Hd Premium" specification, driven by Samsung'due south UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player.]

In the winter of 1823, a band of frontiersmen is preparing their large haul of animal pelts for return to a remote fort/trading mail in the unincorporated U.S. territories (somewhen, the Dakotas and Montana), when they're attacked past a tribe of Arikara Indiana (too known as "Ree"). Led by Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his half-Pawnee son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck), a minor grouping of these men manage to escape by boat down river. Hugh decides they should hide the pelts they've manage to relieve then as to escape Ree pursuit – they tin can always come up dorsum for them afterward – and the Captain of the expedition (Domhnall Gleeson) agrees, but the decision angers some other of the trappers, a hard homo named John Fitzgerald (played by Tom Hardy). When Hugh is brutally attacked past a grizzly on their manner dorsum to the fort, John is tasked with remaining behind with him to bury him properly when he dies. Instead, John kills Hawk and abandons Hugh to his fate. Merely confronting all odds, Hugh survives and must confront the equally-fell landscape in guild to seek his revenge. Shot largely on location in mostly remote wilderness areas of Alberta, Canada (also as Montana and the southern tip of Argentina) and entirely in natural light (often during the and then-called "magic hour" before sunrise and after sunset), The Revenant is a piece of masterful filmmaking.

The Revenant was captured digitally past director Alejandro Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (a.k.a. Chivo) in ARRI Raw (6K) and Redcode RAW (6K) formats using ARRI Alexa 65 (with Hasselblad Prime lenses) and Red Epic Dragon cameras. The film was finished to a 4K Digital Intermediate in the 2.39:1 attribute ratio, and that DI was used to produce Fox'due south 4K Ultra Hard disk drive Blu-ray presentation. It'south worth noting that the color grading for Ultra Hard disk was done separately from the regular Blu-ray. Though both were supervised and canonical by Chivo and Iñárritu, different choices were fabricated – peculiarly once they saw what HDR was capable of. So while the Blu-ray color timing has a somewhat cool and stylized wait, the Ultra HD offers a much more than naturalistic presentation. Having grown up on this role of the country, I can adjure that the Ultra HD image does indeed accurately capture the dramatic look and feel of this mural. The sheer touch on of the imagery in The Revenant is boggling – it really has to exist experienced in order to fully appreciate what that means. The landscape itself is a character in this film, live with portent and potential in nigh every scene. The Ultra HD presentation captures the theatrical experience perfectly. At that place'southward a lilliputian bit of color banding visible, resulting from the conversion of 16-bit color (the native colour space of Redcode RAW) to 10-scrap for this disc, but it's never distracting. This image is so good, at that place are times while watching it that y'all just accept to stop and curiosity at what you're seeing – the refined particular, the vast and intricate color palette, the deep dark wood shadows, the burnished-glare of sunlight reflecting off a flowing stream or ice. And the altercation! Fog, mist, cloud, smoke, sunlight illuminating these things and filtering through them. At that place'southward a brief scene, at about 56:25, in which a wave of night clouds spills down over the acme of a mountain toward the photographic camera, backlit by the cold winter sunday, and it's equally if the hand of God is reaching down. The Revenant is, without incertitude, one of the most cute looking films I have always seen, and I've never seen such imagery more stunningly rendered in my home theater before.

The moving-picture show's audio is available on the 4K disc in an incredibly immersive English language 7.i DTS-Hd Chief Sound mix that completely surrounds and transfixes yous with the subtle sounds of the cardinal forest, of wind, of water. The dynamic range is a perfect match to the images – the mix is muscular and ambitious when information technology needs to be, but otherwise delivers a steady period of sonic atmospherics that put you correct in the centre of this environs. Meanwhile, the moving picture'due south score, which is by turns ascetic and evocative, adds just the right seasoning of majesty, of desolation, of elemental humanity. Some viewers volition no doubt exist disappointed that this disc doesn't includes Atmos or DTS:X, but I wouldn't fret about it. This is a magnificent vii.1 lossless audio mix. Additional audio options include English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, and 5.1 DTS in French, German, and Italian. Optional subtitles include English language SDH, Spanish, French, Dansk (Danish), Nederlands (Dutch), Suomi (Finnish), German, Italian, Norsk (Norwegian), and Svenska (Swedish).

There are no extras on the 4K disc itself, just the Blu-ray version is included in the packaging. Information technology includes one of the nigh fascinating special features I've seen in some fourth dimension, a documentary called A World Unseen (44:04). It begins with Iñárritu sitting on a soundstage, beingness shown images from the flick and its making to inspire a sure way of thinking in the filmmaker, who so opens up about the challenging production and how the procedure of making of the motion picture informed him nearly history, the state of the world today, and himself. This is intercut with footage from the motion picture, material shot on set to document the production, and interview footage with the cast and crew. So the slice is both certificate and comment, and offers both the filmmaker and its audience the kind of perspective that comes from consciously taking the fourth dimension to reverberate back upon what'southward you've merely done, what yous've but seen and experienced. The Blu-ray also includes a gallery of images from the production, and there'southward a Digital Copy lawmaking in the packaging.

[Editor's Note: Given that nearly all 4K releases are multi-disc sets, with the extras often included on dissever BD discs, our extras grades for these 4K Ultra Hd Blu-ray reviews will reverberate the bonus content across all discs in the fix.]

Forget everything y'all may take heard virtually The Revenant and just run across it for yourself. It'southward a rare and genuine achievement in purely cinematic storytelling of a kind that is seldom attempted at this scale anymore. Equally such, it demands to exist seen in the best possible A/V quality. Thankfully, Pull a fast one on'southward Ultra Hard disk drive Blu-ray delivers that quality in spades. If you lot're looking for a reference-grade 4K video feel that beautifully illuminates the full touch on of HDR and the raw ability and potential of the Ultra HD format, this it is.

- Bill Chase

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