Blade Runner 2049
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold
Plot: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Disc Release Date: 16 January 2018
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Blade Runner 2049 can be hunted down on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presented in 3840 x 2160p with a widescreen 2.40:1 aspect ratio, using 10-bit video depth, a Wider Colour Gamut (WCG) and High Dynamic Range(HDR),...
The accompanying audio presentation is just as magnificent as the video, delivered in the guise of an object-based immersive audio track. Blade Runner 2049's Dolby Atmos mix rides high atop an equally...
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The extras are all on the included Blu-ray disc and are decent enough, with the promotional shorts and various production featurettes. First up we have the three prologues, which flesh out what happened...
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Blade Runner, in any one of its many different forms, was always a little ambiguous, with grander themes and ideas that added to its mythos. Blade Runner 2049 builds a whole universe of big questions to...
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As noted in the standard Blu-ray review, Blade Runner 2049's cinematographer was thelegendary Roger Deakins, a pioneer of digital cinema who personally oversaw the film's post-production on a 4K digital...
The UHD disc offers the same excellent Dolby Atmos soundtrack that has been previouslyreviewed. Like the standard Blu-ray, it also offers the option, redundant in my opinion, of a DTS-HD MA 5.1 track....
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The UHD disc has no extras. The included standard Blu-ray contains the same extras previouslylisted here....
More Human Than Human; More Alive Than 1080pHaving already written at length (no doubt too long, by some standards) on the greatness ofdirector Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, I won't repeat myself...
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As I said in the main Blu-ray review, I believe that BR 2049�is destined for a long afterlife, notonly on its own merits, but also because it is now inseparable from the larger mythology that isthe haunting...
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As one of 2017 most visually stunning movies, it's no surprise that this 2160p 2.40:1 transfer with HDR10 is simply gorgeous. Flat out, this is demo-worthy material through and through. The colors, the...
As I said in my review for the 4K UHD Blu-ray release of Blade Runner, Dolby Atmos adds a lot to the show. To put it bluntly, that is an understatement when talking about Blade Runner 2049. This film was...
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Given that Blade Runner 2049 is a sequel to one of the most celebrated science fiction films ever made, its collection of bonus features is a bit on the anemic side of things. While the quality is genuinely...
"I prefer to keep an empty stomach until the hard part of the day is done."Some movies never ever need sequels. Whether or not the film comes to a close with an open-ended finale suggesting that there...
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Blade Runner 2049 is the sequel I never knew I wanted or needed. When the prospect of a sequel was first raised, my thinking was "well that could be interesting, but no, I'm good." Then as the production...