7.5 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian MurphySci-Fi | 100% |
Horror | 68% |
Thriller | 54% |
Mystery | 18% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish= Espana and Latinoamerica
English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Malay, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Thai
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Digital copy
4K Ultra HD
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
A few years ago, Director John Krasinski's A Quiet Place made a lot of noise -- and a lot of money -- as one of the most innovative Survival-Horror films in many years. The sequel, almost equally successful in following on the original, faced a unique challenge as one of the biggest, and amongst the first, movies to be theatrically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally scheduled to release on March 20, 2020, theater closures, stay-at-home orders, and other obstacles altered plans until the film finally hit heaters more than a year later. And it was a film well worth the wait. Though perhaps not quite so groundbreaking and visionary as the original, it's every bit as psychologically intense, emotionally draining, and cinematically satisfying as its predecessor.
The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc.
Paramount brings A Quiet Place Part II to the UHD format with a solidly performing 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD presentation. The image offers an
evident boost over the concurrently released 1080p/SDR Blu-ray. The opening flashback sequence offers a good starting point for
comparison. The UHD exhibits a mild uptick in sharpness and object clarity, seen on faces, clothes, and storefronts around town. Color depth is more
pronounced, tones are a bit bolder and healthier, and grain management is superior, appearing more refined and accurate, though certainly the Blu-ray
is not lacking itself in any of these categories: the UHD is simply an amplified presentation, putting some textural and tonal fine details on the image.
The UHD shines down in the steel mill's bowels, particularly inside the small safe zone "bunker" where very little light is in evidence. Blacks are tighter
and deeper, vital in accentuating the claustrophobia and hopelessness that defines so many scenes inside. Around the mill's other areas, the UHD
proves invaluable in bringing out the finest rusty metal and other surface details that bring so much character to what is, essentially, the film's primary
location. Add in crisper whites, faultless encoding, and a perfect print, and this approaches a reference quality picture for one of the years best films.
The Dolby Atmos soundtrack offers some incredible audio cues as frantic traffic zips through town at the beginning, as the alien creatures hurtle onto cars and clearly climb atop them, taking full advantage of the overhead channels where it absolutely makes sense and only enhances the scene's dynamics. Car crashes strike here and there and then the track drops to dead silence to reflect Regan's hearing loss. The film plays with this sort of high energy to near silence juxtaposition throughout. When it's quiet, it's literally whisper quiet, with extremely light ambience all that is standing between dead silence (and dead characters, for that matter). When it's on, it's intense, with powerful music, plenty of surround action, quality subwoofer output, deep gunshots, piercing screams, and so on and so forth. It's all very well placed, balanced, and detailed, characteristics that also extend to dialogue. Audio engineering and home delivery don't get much better than this.
The UHD disc contains no extras, but the bundled Blu-ray includes the following featurettes. A digital copy code is included with purchase.
A Quiet Place Part II is every bit as intensely draining and cinematically well executed as its predecessor. The lone "drawback" is that it isn't quite so novel as the original, but Krasinski's ability to maintain focus, adhere to the successful style, continue the story, and push the franchise forward all make this a terrific sequel and so far one of the best films of the year. Paramount's UHD delivers several extras in addition to excellent 2160p/Dolby Vision video and spectacular Dolby Atmos audio. Very highly recommended.
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