7.8 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.5 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
A U.S. Marshal is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle WilliamsThriller | 100% |
Period | 67% |
Mystery | 58% |
Psychological thriller | 45% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Czech: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Hungarian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1
Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish=Latinoamérica, Portuguese=Brasil
English, English SDH, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Malay, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
4K Ultra HD
Region free
Movie | 4.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 4.5 |
Paramount has released Director Martin Scorsese's highly regarded 2010 film 'Shutter Island' to the UHD format, exclusively in SteelBook packaging. The UHD sports a new 2160p/Dolby Vision video transfer. The disc carries over the Blu-ray's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The UHD includes no new extras but the bundled Blu-ray is identical to the 2010 disc which includes two featurettes. See the 'Video' section of the review for coverage of the new transfer and the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.
Shutter Island's 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release does right by the movie. This is finessed improvement over the Blu-ray, which at even a decade in age still holds up as an extremely good presentation. The UHD's increased resolution handles the material scrumptiously, offering a pleasantly fine level of natural, filmic detail accentuated by a steady, authentic grain structure. The picture is incredibly sharp and finely detailed, revealing a level of intricacy and intimacy that demonstrates what the format is all about. The sense of visual authenticity is quite spectacular as viewers examine facial textures that command the screen with shot-dominant clarity in every close-up. The period attire, including twill suits or police uniforms, showcase amazing fabric clarity and seam definition. The world seen around the film comes to life with remarkable clarity, including a diverse landscape of grasses, rocks, stone, bricks, and concrete, all in varying states of upkeep and decay alike. The UHD is a boon for the film's expert production design. The divergent locales also mean divergent colors. The Dolby Vision color grading brings a new level of tonal accuracy, subtlety, and intensity to the screen, maintaining an authentic feel for every hue but bolstering the palette scene-by-scene with each color dialed in to appropriate depth and detail. As the film explores various locations, so too do numerous colors earn the chance to shine. Whether warm interiors, gray and bleak prison locales, intensely green grassy fields, or gory red blood in a World War II flashback, the Dolby Vision color palette creates a natural, finely graded color presentation to every shot. Add more intensely luminance brights, perfectly crisp whites, and superb black levels, all presented with a perfection beyond the existing Blu-ray's capabilities, and the UHD proves to be a practically perfect presentation of Scorsese's film.
Rather than reconfigure to Dolby Atmos or DTS:X, Paramount has simply retained the existing Blu-ray's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack for this UHD release. For a full audio review, please click here.
This new UHD release of Shutter Island includes no new extras. The bundled Blu-ray is identical to the 2010 release and brings over the pair of
extras listed below. For full reviews, please click here. Note that no digital copy code is included with purchase.
Shutter Island's UHD, at time of writing, is only available in SteelBook packaging. The disc delivers a first-rate 2160p/Dolby Vision video presentation. Paramount has opted not to include an updated soundtrack, but the decade-old DTS track is plenty good. No new extras are included, which is a shame given the scarcity of them on the existing Blu-ray. The SteelBook packaging is quite nice. Highly recommended.
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Extended Cut
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Experiment Killing Room
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