The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		3.5
Overall		4.0

The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Universal has released Steven Spielberg's sequel 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' to the UHD format alongside 'Jurassic Park,' 'Jurassic Park III,' and 'Jurassic World,' all available only in bundles, both a DigiBook and a Best Buy exclusive SteelBook set. This film's UHD video and audio presentations are fantastic. No new extras have been added. Read on for more details.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. Watch for 4K screenshots at a later date.

Jurassic Park's UHD release has a case of the coulda-beens, but The Lost World is a much more refined, polished, and consistently excellent 2160p/HDR-enhanced presentation. This is a nicely improved image over the Blu-ray. Right form the opening shot, out at sea and pushing towards the island with a dinosaur hiding in the mist, the shot's stability, clarity, and color reproduction -- blue skies peeking through clouds, greenery, and the water -- offer superior color depth and vitality. The minor wobble accompanying the Isla Sorna title card is largely gone on the UHD, and the white coloring is much more stable, vibrant, and true. The open certainly sets a great tone for the rest of the transfer. Can it come through? Generally speaking, yes. The definition on the beach in the following scene -- sand, wooden loungers, clothes -- is striking, The introductory shot for Jeff Goldblum's Malcolm, contrasted against a very bright blue advertisement, offers a substantial increase in both color punch across the dominant, almost off-putting backdrop and textural stability on his face and jacket. The Blu-ray is much less accurate and firm. Throughout, grain retention is continuous, cinematic, and very flattering.

Color depth and vibrancy are excellent. Kelly's red shirt in her introductory scene is a great example of the HDR-10's ability to firm, add depth, and bring a natural brilliance the Blu-ray cannot achieve. Natural greens are gorgeous throughout the island, with an intensity and diversity of shades that brings every shot in which they appear in daytime splendor to life. Black levels are strikingly deep with no sign of crush or paleness, excellent compliments to the movie's many lower light and nighttime scenes. Textural qualities are nearly as good. Facial and clothing textures are firm and fine, natural environments are crisp and true. The image looks quite good -- striking, often -- throughout. It's not perfect. A shot of Kelly at the 56:53 mark, for example, looks very pasty, flat, absent the rich filmic texturing of most of the rest of the movie, but such examples are generally one-offs here and there and don't detract from what is, most of the time, a fantastic presentation from Universal.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

It should come as no surprise that The Lost World's DTS:X Master Audio soundtrack belts out a prodigious listen. Despite its size and abilities, the track does walk that fine line between balance and excess, managing to hit hard without overwhelming any scene. Compies surround a little girl in the film's opening minutes with a surprisingly frightening little bit of total stage immersion as the creatures encircle the child. Jungle atmospherics never want for improved nuance or placement. It's quite amazing how wide the stage can grow as near and distant sounds alike create an eerily calming din in those moments as characters get their bearings, awe at their surroundings, or plot their next move. The action scenes are of course the highlight, though. An attack in chapter nine, as a dinosaur pushes a trailer off the edge of a cliff, features crashing metal, creaking objects, intense depth, perfect stage immersion, easy sound traversal, and wonderfully balanced and intensive bass. It's one of several scenes that take full advantage of every speaker and don't hold back in delivering precisely imaged sounds, seamless traversal for moving objects, and a finely balanced complimentary top layer that doesn't offer a world of discrete effects but does enhance the perception of size and space within the theater. Bass delivers superb depth and power, never overpowering any moment but always certain to assert itself to the fullest. Music follows suit. Clarity is wonderful, spacing agreeable, bass powerfully complimentary. Dialogue is true, presenting with natural front-center positioning and prioritization. This track, paired with the very satisfying video presentation, make for a highly enjoyable 1-2 punch of Jurassic A/V goodness.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

The Lost World's UHD disc contains no supplements, but the included Blu-ray, which is identical to that released in 2011, contains all of this film's extra content. For convenience, below is a list of what's included. For a full review, please click here.

• Deleted Scenes
• Return to Jurassic Park: Finding The Lost World
• Return to Jurassic Park: Something Survived
• Archival Featurettes
• The Making of The Lost World
• Original Featurette on the Making of the Film
• The Jurassic Park Phenomenon: A Discussion with Author Michael Crichton
• The Compie Dance Number: Thank You Steven Spielberg from ILM
• Behind the Scenes
• ILM & The Lost World: Before & After the Visual Effects
• Production Archives
• Storyboards
• Theatrical Trailer

The Lost World: Jurassic Park 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

The Lost World is a solid film that tends to get a little lost under the giant shadow cast by its predecessor. The film has earned a very good UHD video presentation, a fantastic DTS:X Master Audio soundtrack, and this release retains all of the previously released Blu-ray bonus content. Highly recommended.