Resident Evil Vendetta 4K (2017) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX

BSAA Chris Redfield enlists the help of government agent Leon S. Kennedy and Professor Rebecca Chambers from Alexander Institute of Biotechnology to stop a death merchant with a vengeance from spreading a deadly virus in New York.

Resident Evil Vendetta 4K (2017) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX Review
The 2160p/HDR-enhanced presentation, presumably baed on the reported 2K digital intermediate, offers an image not dramatically dissimilar from its Blu-ray counterpart, but it is one with some positive benefits over the basic 1080p picture. The digital animated details appear a bit more firm and more revealing. Skin textures are noticeably improved, showcasing more intricate and intimate pore details along the way. The tactical gear -- straps, webbing, gloves, and the like -- show a bit more complexity and depth of textural accuracy. The movie's rather drab settings wouldn't appear to offer a substantial alteration in color but larger splashes of more intensive shades, such as orange fireballs and red blood and gore, do produce more punch and nuanced color depth. A good example is an explosion that occurs right before the title sequence, which comes fairly far into the movie, somewhere around the 17-minute mark. Those hoping to escape the shimmering and jagged edges found on the Blu-ray are out of luck. The UHD is still full of such visual intrusions.

Resident Evil: Vendetta's Dolby Atmos soundtrack is quite good, riveting, even, in the sonic arena. Gunfire tears through the stage with superb pronouncement and positioning, as it did in the Blu-ray's DTS-HD MA 5.1 track. Here, though, the low end is noticeably more thunderous while the sense of place is greatly enhanced. Bullets seem to rip through at many different angles and with much more spatial precision. It's uncanny how swift, hard, and aggressive bullets tear through, particularly when a helicopter blasts from overhead in the opening act. With the addition of the top layer speakers nowhere in the soundstage is safe. Zombie moans and groans are more fundamentally frightening here, too; the addition of the added back channels is particularly helpful in creating a more seriously intense sense that they're shuffling towards the back of the couch, for instance, opening up the stage even further to the terrifying signal of pending death. It's a fantastic track, incredibly full and handling all of its diverse needs -- action, zombies, music, miscellaneous -- with incredible precision and, more, amazing spacing that expands the stage significantly over 5.1. Dialogue lip sync does look a microsecond off at times, but it's not particularly troublesome.