Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		5.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		3.0
Overall		4.0

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Universal and Best Buy have collaborated on an exclusive 4K SteelBook release for 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' (a separate SteelBook is available for the Blu-ray only version, which looks to share the same SteelBook artwork). Inside, the two-disc set, plus digital copy, is identical to what's included in the wide release packaging. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section below for more on the SteelBook.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Fallen Kingdom's SteelBook is very simple. There's no clutter, the images are nice and big, and it's largely devoid of excess color. Whether one finds the streamlined appearance attractive is mostly subjective, but in this reviewer's eyes, anything that's different from the fairly blasé Photoshop style covers that dominate the home video landscape (and Fallen Kingdom's own wide release, for that matter) is welcome. The front and back alike feature flat silver colors. On the front, a slightly darker outline of mountains and trees, presumably on Isla Nublar, are faintly visible. A blue-shaded dinosaur, which appears to be "Blue," appears dominantly on the front. The rear side carries over that silvery background and prominently features the film's new baddie, the Indoraptor, teeth showing and ready to eat a victim. The unfriendly dino is standing inside what appears to be Benjamin Lockwood's home. Very small print appears at the bottom. The spine features that same silver color. The film's title appears centered in franchise-stylized print while Legendary and Universal logos appear at the bottom.

Inside, the digital copy code is tucked underneath the left-hand side tabs. The two discs, one UHD and one Blu-ray, are housed on the right, staggered-stacked. The inner prints are just as simple, if not simpler, as the exterior front and rear panels. Both sides feature extreme dinosaur close-ups with little definition beyond eyes and scales. These appear to be larger reprints of the front and back dinosaurs, with the Indoraptor on the left and Blue on the right.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

In this reviewer's eyes, SteelBooks are most attractive when they're either simple and streamlined or colorfully unique enough to stand apart from the crowd. Simply repeating wide release artwork, or something along those same Photoshop-y lines, is usually disappointing. This one is definitely a far cry from standard home video covers, but it's also a bit uninteresting. It stands apart, which is good. It's simple, which is great, but does it capture the movie's essence? Hard to say. What's easy to say is that the on-disc content is first-rate. Recommended.