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Paramount Pictures | 1990 | 135 min | Rated PG | Feb 25, 2020

The Hunt for Red October 4K (Blu-ray Movie)

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Movie rating

7.9
 / 10

Blu-ray rating

Users4.0 of 54.0
Reviewer4.0 of 54.0
Overall4.0 of 54.0

Overview

The Hunt for Red October 4K (1990)

A new, technologically-superior Soviet sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Marko Ramius. The U.S. government thinks Ramius is planning to attack, but C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea. He thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it, because the Russian naval and air forces are trying to find him, too.

Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones
Director: John McTiernan

Action100%
Adventure49%
War42%
Thriller38%
DramaInsignificant

Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: HEVC / H.265
    Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
    Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
    Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

  • Audio

    English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
    German: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
    Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
    French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
    Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
    Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0
    Portuguese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

  • Subtitles

    English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Norwegian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Two-disc set (2 BDs)
    Digital copy
    4K Ultra HD

  • Playback

    Region A (B, C untested)

Review

Rating summary

Movie5.0 of 55.0
Video4.0 of 54.0
Audio4.0 of 54.0
Extras1.5 of 51.5
Overall4.0 of 54.0

The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman February 29, 2020

Paramount has widely released a SteelBook packaging variant for the first of now several Jack Ryan films, and the best, 1990s 'The Hunt for Red October.' The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the wide release, which was heretofore only available as part of a five-film boxed set. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.


For a full film review, please click here; note that this link points too the 2008 Blu-ray release.


The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  4.0 of 5

For a full UHD video review, please click here.


The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  4.0 of 5

For a full UHD audio review, please click here.


The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  1.5 of 5

This "30th Anniversary" SteelBook, glossy and slick and fingerprint prone across its red, black, and yellow dominant tones, depicts four floating heads down the left hand side: Captain Ramius, Jack Ryan, Bart Mancuso, and Captain Borodin. The film's title appears further left, the words "The Hunt for" in a red box atop "Red October" running downwards, the former word in red and the latter in yellow. Also appearing are actor names Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, first name red, last name yellow. The right hand side is a predominantly red mass of imagery, which includes a Soviet hammer and sickle atop a radar screen, the Dallas bursting out of the water, and a few helicopters flying about. The rear panel features large block text depicting Russian words. A torpedo rushes through the water bottom right while a chopper and a destroyer can be seen above the surface. Like the front, it's largely red and black and yellow. The spine features the film's title, center, identical in presentation to its layout on the front. A Paramount logo appears on the top and UltraHD and Blu-ray logos 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 situated on the right in staggered-stacked formation. The inner print is a two-panel spread that features a dark red and black image of a sub in the water. It's very subdued.

For a full UHD audio review, please click here.


The Hunt for Red October 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  4.0 of 5

It's nice to have a classic in 4K and in its own packaging; here's hoping Paramount continues to release more Ryan films in 4K in SteelBook packaging. The presentation is OK, emphasizing red color, characters, and submarines, pretty much the key ingredients that make the movie tick. And what a movie! The UHD presentation is sound, but it would have been nice if Paramount could have included a few more extras. Highly recommended.