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12 Strong 4K(2018)A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban. For more about 12 Strong 4K and the 12 Strong 4K Blu-ray release, see 12 Strong 4K Blu-ray Review published by Randy Miller III on May 12, 2024 where this Blu-ray release scored 2.5 out of 5. Director: Nicolai Fuglsig Writers: Ted Tally, Peter Craig, Doug Stanton Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Pe�a, Navid Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer » See full cast & crew 12 Strong 4K Blu-ray, Video Quality 4K1080pNOTE: This review's screenshots are sourced from the earlier Blu-ray edition. In his review of WB's 2018 Blu-ray edition, Michael Reuben details 12 Strong's digitally-shot cinematography and its smooth transition to 1080p, where cool color filters stood in appealing contrast to its earth-toned landscapes while leave plenty of room for crisp image detail and almost eye-popping textures. None of this has fundamentally changed on the studio's new UHD edition, which features a new 2160p/HDR transfer that almost certainly uses the same 2K digital intermediate source as that previous release. The result "goes to 11", to coin a phrase from This is Spinal Tap, as Michael Reuben's well-deserved perfect 5/5 video quality rating left almost nowhere for a future release to go but down. It doesn't, of course, as this tightly-encoded transfer -- which practically gets an entire 100GB disc to itself and runs at a very generous bit rate from start to finish -- looks even more crisp, stable, and arresting than before, which further widens the already-considerable gap between 12 Strong's visual strengths and narrative weaknesses. Also "new" to this UHD release is HDR10 encoding (not Dolby Vision compatible, per WB's kind of irritating policy for catalog titles), which likewise offers its own brand of support for the main feature that heightens 12 Strong's already rock-solid visual aesthetic. Unsurprisingly, the film's overwhelmingly cool color palette -- mostly a byproduct of those already-mentioned blue filters -- enjoys a greater amount of depth and variation from scene to scene, while black levels (which in all honesty often run no deeper than dark gray by design) and overall contrast values are similarly bolstered by the increased dynamic range. As such, bright whites rarely feel "bright white" but are nowhere close to blooming, which also contributes to a greater sense of depth. Finally, the aforementioned bit rate all but ensures a complete lack of compression artifacts like banding, macro blocking, or posterization, leading to an overall very potent presentation that likely meets or beats most original theatrical showings. Simply put, five stars all the way.
Does this inarguably great transfer make 12 Strong any better? Not if you didn't like it before... but those "on the fence" or at least decently
receptive to the film may enjoy themselves more this time. But just think of what a full-strength 4K release would do for one of WB's many
neglected (and actually great) catalog titles such as North by Northwest,
Dog Day Afternoon, Network
, or The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford. 12 Strong 4K Blu-ray, Audio QualityI'm almost positive that whatever lengths were taken to sweeten the visuals on 12 Strong's new 2160p/HDR transfer did not include any sort of upgrade to (or modification of) the DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio mix that was first included on WB's 2018 Blu-ray edition, but I found this to be a robust and engaging sound mix that does its job almost perfectly. Dialogue remains crisp and well-defined, action sequences are thunderous at times, and overall it feels smooth and extremely polished while retaining a certain level of rawness. So while I cautiously say this is the same track as before, I'm rating it slightly higher than our previous review... but still not perfect, because for whatever reason 12 Strong's (reported) original theatrical 7.1 mix has again not been offered on home video.
Please note that unlike the Blu-ray, no foreign dubs are subtitles are included this time... only English. USA! USA!
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