7.2 | / 10 |
Users | 3.9 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.1 |
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty SimpkinsAdventure | 100% |
Action | 94% |
Sci-Fi | 74% |
Thriller | 14% |
Horror | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.00:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Spanish: DTS 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: DTS 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH, French, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
UV digital copy
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
"Nature always wins." Or, perhaps better said in Jurassic Park lore lingo, "life finds a way." Sometimes, however, "life" isn't just natural selection, out in the wild, biological makeup, or instinct. Sometimes, "life" is man's own avarice, his blindness to reality, his failure to learn from past mistakes, his devotion to money and stature rather than common sense and the fundamental ways of the world. Jurassic World takes that lesson to heart, a lesson that's not at all dissimilar from the common theme shared with the first film, but it's only accentuated here considering the hard facts that must have been foremost on the minds of the men and women who decided it would be a good idea -- read, great for the bottom line -- to go a second round with nature and mess with history. Oh, life finds a way, alright, and the filmmakers have found a way not to reinvent the wheel but make it slicker, more efficient, more dynamic. This fourth film in the Jurassic Park franchise is easily the second best in the series and not too far behind the first. It's a thrill ride worthy of the Jurassic name and one of the most purely entertaining movies of the last several years.
Jurassic World was photographed primarily on film, and Universal's Blu-ray does it justice. The 1080p transfer is a dazzling example of the quality edge film enjoys over digital. It's beautifully organic with a light, evenly dispersed, and constant grain structure that emphasizes details and offers a filmic texture that digital -- even the best digital releases of today -- can't quite duplicate. The image is beautifully cinematic, yielding high impact details and a surface so crisp and vibrant that it ranks amongst the very finest new releases the format has seen. Both real and digital effects are impeccably presented. Dinosaur hides are wonderfully complex and tactile. Faces reveal every fine line, pore, and bead of sweat. Grassy and leafy terrain around the park is meticulously detailed and razor sharp in every scene, whether at ground level or presented via aerial photography. Even in 2D, image depth is evident. Colors are equally impressive. The palette is vividly robust, presenting all of the natural green in full, eye-popping splendor. A bright blue helicopter, orange fireballs, and red beam lasers leap off the screen. Black levels are attractively deep and nuanced, and while the lower light command center shots tend to push mildly dull, that can likely be attributed to set lighting rather than a flaw in the transfer. The image naturally pushes slightly warm, yielding flesh tones that present with a mild orange shading. The image suffers from nary a speck or scratch while other anomalies like macroblocking, banding, and aliasing are never a problem. This is new release perfection from Universal and a reminder of how beautiful a film-sourced transfer can be.
Jurassic World stomps onto Blu-ray with a full-throttle DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 lossless soundtrack. The track is expectedly robust and precise, a perfect companion to a movie of this type and scale. The series' familiar main theme presents beautifully, playing with exacting clarity that brings even the finest orchestral nuances to vivid aural life. Spacing is superb, low end support is tight and balanced, and surround usage is constant and enveloping. Various atmospherics heighten the impact of numerous scenes, including casual din at the park's main hub, airport and park PA announcements, blaring alarm sirens, or rustling leaves and insects and other jungle-type ambiance. As with the music, the track creates a full, wide, and completely enveloping listening environment that makes great use of the added surround channels for a tighter, more organic sense of immersion. But the main attraction comes, obviously, by way of the heavier effects. Dinosaur footfalls hit hard and shake the listening area. The creatures' screams and shrieks and various other guttural sounds are terrifyingly detailed and robust. Various bits of mayhem yield heavy crashes and flying debris that saturates the stage with the madness. Gunshots are nicely deep and impactful. Dialogue enjoys firm center placement, effortless definition, and consistent prioritization, even in the midst of the most chaotic moments. This is a brilliant, top-shelf presentation from Universal.
Jurassic World contains several featurettes and deleted scenes. A DVD copy of the film and a voucher for a UV/iTunes digital copy are
included.
Jurassic World is easily the best of the series since the original. It retains that same magic, that sense of scope and awe, that feeling of novelty and adventure, even as it's little more than that first film repurposed, jazzed up with better visual effects and a mild reworking of the core story. The movie never slows or sputters and only disappoints in a couple of areas, but the sum is a breathtaking, wild, fully engaging and exciting movie that's much closer to a true sequel to the original than either The Lost World or Jurassic Park III. Better, the Blu-ray is terrific. Perfect picture, dynamic sound, and a few decent extras make this one of the most appealing Blu-ray releases of the year and a strong contender for a spot on the annual top-ten list. Jurassic World earns my highest recommendation.
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