7.6 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
An up-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into a dangerous field assignment as he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit.
Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly (V), Abbie Cornish, Betty GabrielThriller | Insignificant |
Drama | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.00:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
English, English SDH, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
The first season of Amazon's Jack Ryan took the streaming world by storm, offering an updated, but not compromised, vision for Novelist Tom Clancy's most famous fictional hero, a young CIA analyst who finds himself in the midst of political intrigue and danger. Amazon set the show in the modern era rather than the late 80s/early 90s when the character was first introduced to the literary world and found a home on the big screen in hits like The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger. Season two continues the story, offering an increasingly gritty, politically dense, and incessantly dangerous adventure for the title hero, dropping him into the steamy jungles and political hotbed of Venezuela for his most dangerous and complex mission yet.
Jack Ryan: Season Two was shot digitally, and the picture is every bit as exceptional as its season one counterpart. The image is meticulously clear, delivering high end detail and relentless sharpness throughout. Facial details are exceptionally rendered, displaying natural features like facial hairs and pores with tangible clarity and presenting blood and grime and sweat with intimacy in more demanding action scenes and labor-intensive locales alike. Environments are rich and intricate, particularly dense jungle settings and cramped urban locations in Venezuela, though certainly more refined office spaces and the like enjoy the sort of tactile clarity fans expect, too. Colors are strong across the board, yielding rich, diverse tones throughout urban Venezuela with significant pop. The nation's lush natural greens enjoy similarly impressive contrast. Red blood and fiery explosions, both seen with some regularity, also dazzle with rich tonal output. Skin tones appear spot-on and black levels are never problematic. Noise and banding are kept in check, neither offering much of a problem beyond a few small bursts.
Jack Ryan: Season Two's Dolby Atmos soundtrack delivers both high energy and impressive subtlety alike. The track offers a healthy selection of environmental ambience, beginning with rolling ocean waves at season's start and continuing on with various examples of immersive city and natural jungle din, the former both for bustling exteriors and various interiors, like bars and offices. It's refined, well defined, and takes full advantage of the generous channel allotment afforded to it all. Likewise, music plays with seamless fidelity and expert stage presence. Fronts dominate but the surrounds certainly carry enough content, and at just the right volume, to deliver a fully immersive experience that, like the atmospheric supports, perfectly draws the listener into any given scene. Action effects engage with high yield activity. Gunfire is sharp and crisp regardless of gun type or location. Explosions hit with a satisfying punch and spaciousness. There's no shortage of immersive action activity; the entire stage transforms into the show's various battlefields. Dialogue is clear, well prioritized, and plays from the center channel speaker with a few examples of more expansive reverb as the situation warrants, such as during a string of news clips played in Ryan's classroom early in the season.
Jack Ryan: Season Two contains deleted scenes from various episodes on both discs. No DVD or digital copies are included, but this release
does ship with an embossed slipcover.
Disc One:
Jack Ryan: Season Two delivers perfectly acceptable entertainment, highlighted by high end production values and rock-solid performances, but it is narratively wanting and fails to push the envelope or push the characters, qualities that made the first season so special. Paramount's two-disc season two release includes scant extras -- a handful of deleted scenes -- but does deliver dynamic video and audio presentations. Recommended.
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