5.4 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
With the world’s smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott (III), Ella Balinska, Elizabeth Banks, Patrick StewartAction | 100% |
Adventure | 45% |
Comedy | 6% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS:X
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Hindi: Dolby Digital 5.1
Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polish VO
English, English SDH, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Digital copy
4K Ultra HD
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
In this latest iteration of Charlie's Angels, there plenty of "want-to" and "can-do" but little "reason-to." The film doesn't really follow in the footsteps of its predecessors -- whether on the small screen or the big screen -- maintaining the general character makeup but ditching much of the overt sex appeal in favor of a disappointingly rote by-the-numbers storyline and unimaginative action sequences. There's little here to become excited about. It's a serviceable movie in every way but hardly memorable and certainly not at all a necessary inclusion into the growing Charlie's Angels canon.
The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc.
The UHD picture quality is commanding and clear. It's vibrant and sturdy and both the increased resolution to 2160p (based on a 2K digital intermediate) and the HDR color spectrum bring the movie to
life in a way that the Blu-ray cannot provide. The picture enjoys a substantial increased yield to color tone management, with more impressively deep
and accurate colors leaping off the screen at every opportunity. The tones are healthy, intense, and a pleasure to behold. Whites in particular jump off
the screen with a brightness, intensity, and luminance well beyond the SDR Blu-ray's capabilities, while on the other side of the spectrum black levels
enjoy more pronounced and accurate depth while firming up shadow detail. It's an impressive display of HDR goodness that extends to the production
of more naturally appearing skin tones and the many makeup accents, from facial applications to special effects blood and bruises. The level of overall
pop raises this presentation significantly over the Blu-ray, not to be outdone by the textural might which is also greatly increased. Viewers will note a
rather substantial boost to image clarity and cleanliness. It's very natural and organic, clear and resplendent in presenting intimate facial textures with
newfound clarity above and beyond 1080p limits. The picture sparkles front to back, top to bottom, from minute one to the final shot. The picture holds
sharpness to a high standard without pushing the material so hard as to give it an inorganic edge, same with glossiness; it's very attractive and stable.
Noise is minimal, banding is not a concern, and encode issues are nonexistent. This is a very nice boost over the Blu-ray.
The Charlie's Angels DTS:X Master Audio soundtrack delivers a crisp, satisfying listen, featuring large-scale stage immersion balanced out by quality intimates that each pull the viewer into the movie in different ways. Certainly the robust action scenes are the highlight, delivering endlessly impressive intensity, width, depth, and low end engagement, creating an immersive and impressive pull into car chases, shootouts, fisticuffs encounters, and all variety of action that throws numerous sound elements at the viewer, all of them in perfect clarity and in commendably accurate and layered spacial terms that fill the listening area with finely tuned and expertly engineered location detail. It's all very rich and authentic. Divergent from that is the track's ability to seamlessly shape lighter score -- including familiar Charlie's Angels musical beats -- and atmospheric details both, managing to, at the same time, command the stage with realistic presence but also fall into the background to allow dialogue and other critical components to shine above. The spoken word is firmly grounded in the center, well prioritized, and naturally detailed for the duration.
Charlie's Angels includes deleted and extended scenes, a music video, and a handful of featurettes on the bundled Blu-ray; no extra are
included on the UHD disc. A Movies
Anywhere digital copy code are included with purchase. This release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
Audiences that can be satisfied with a generic smorgasbord of contemporary moviemaking ideas and constructs should find this version of Charlie's Angels a satisfying jaunt, but fans hoping for the sex appeal of its TV predecessor (the original, not the dreadful and mercifully short-lived remake) or the more muscular, but still svelte and sexy, McG films won't find it here, at least not in any quantity, that is. The movie plays well enough as cinema diversion if not a diversion that's all but indistinguishable beyond its name from so many of its peers. Sony's UHD does deliver robust video and superb audio along with a basic suite of extra content. Worth a look for anyone in search of a serviceable Saturday afternoon time waster.
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