electric blues and fiery reds emerge to begin the movie, building in complexity and intensity with incredible eye-catching results. Obviously I expect the overall picture quality to be better on the disc, but what about the HDR implementation? The film starts off with a voiced-over recap of what happened across the globe between 2013 and 2020. LG's dynamic tone mapping is the best option to bring them back, but it also changes other parts of the image (like making shadows darker or brighter, depending on the scene), so it's not perfect. John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) stars as the rebellious Jake Pentecost, a once-promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the monstrous "Kaiju.

And then there's the sense of immersion itself; sound objects pan around the living room with aplomb. Blade Runner 2049 and Ghost in the Shell are also really good looking movies, really pissed we don't get Valerian and a bunch of other movies in 4K HDR on Apple Movies where I live.

The Jaeger program is being ended to focus strengths on building a massive wall surrounding the Pacific Rim. It was captured on Red Epic cameras capable of up to 5K (5120x2560) raw frame quality, then downsampled to a 2K Digital Intermediate mixed with 2K rendered visual effects.

Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Some killer examples of depth can be found on the streets of war torn Hong Kong, iron work being done while building a new wall and even anywhere you look in the Shatterdome where the house and build the Jaegars. We'll look at this again in the future when there could be more interesting differences to point out in other types of productions. It clearly would have been a lot better with del Toro attached, although, for a directorial debut, Steven S.

Overall, everything you loved about the 'Pacific Rim' is now more immersive, guttural, and exciting than before. So I guess the backstory goes something to the fact that Pacific Rim is based off a treatment by Travis Beacham, with whom Guillermo del Toro (also referred to as GDT interchangeably throughout this review) ended up co-writing the screenplay with. The BD houses the film and Bonus Materials, and appears to be the same 2D "Movie" Blu-ray from the original release (it even includes a pre-menu trailer for 'The Seventh Son'). Then check the image of Mako, how her hair and costume have these dark black blobs of nothing peppered throughout whereas the UHD's grade resolves her hair from root to tip, as they say in the adverts.