Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life 4K 2003 Ultra HD 2160p

Lara Croft 4K Blu ray is on a quest to save Pandoras box. For more about Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 4K and the Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 4K Blu-ray release, see Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 4K Blu-ray Review published by Martin Liebman on March 21, 2018 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life arrives on the UHD format with a 2160p transfer that is, per Paramount, an upscale from a 2K DI and, by the looks of it, sourced from the very same master as the 2013 Blu-ray; a few warts that are present on the BD appear on the UHD (notably a stray fiber on the top-right corner of the screen seen during a seconds-long shot at the 47:43 mark, though it appears the UHD is shifted upwards a few pixels as there is more of it visible on this new disc). It's also 12-bit Dolby Vision enhanced. The image is pleasantly filmic. Grain retention is constant, and it's much lighter compared to the more dense and intense and occasionally fluctuating field seen throughout the first movie. This is a slightly better looking film by its nature, and the UHD certainly offers a necessary textural boost over the Blu-ray, which itself is fairly sharp and enjoyable but, after a compare, clearly lacking in terms of pure textural richness. Faces enjoy a nice jump in complexity, revealing finer lines, hairs, and pores with improved clarity and greater inherent sharpness. Environments, clothes, all of the usual suspects across the board enjoy a similar upward boost in pure complexity and clear visibility. It's certainly a little flat in places and visual effects shots lack the same inherent clarity. There are some scattered, but never really intrusive, very small speckles. But overall this makes for a very good increase in detail and clarity over a still good, but aging, Blu-ray. View and download Lara Croft Tomb Raider 4k 2001

The Dolby Vision color offers an even bigger step forward compared to the Blu-ray. Whites are a highlight, notably on a sun-drenched dress and dress shirts seen at a wedding at film's start. This is much brighter image overall compared to the BD, but colors are a match for the increase in brightness. They're more dense, accurate, and brilliant. Even something as seemingly mundane as a map seen in sunlight in the film's first minutes dazzles, the whites popping and the blue and yellow markings dazzling, both appearing far superior to what's on the BD. And what the Dolby Vision coloring does so well, particularly in a movie like this, is find a very agreeable balance between contrasting light and dark in the same scene. When Croft meets with Sheridan about half an hour into the movie, the Dolby Vision proves its worth by lighting its characters remarkably well -- boosting skin tones on both while also highlighting Croft's white feathery jacket -- while still presenting the dank, dreary, gray-and-black prison cell with remarkable dark depth and shadow detail. More warmly lit scenes find improved color saturation, neons are more brilliant during an action scene in chapter 14, skin tones are nicely enhanced, and blacks, as noted, hold very deep and accurate. This is another high efficiency and very enjoyable UHD release from Paramount.

Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (62.6 Mb/s)
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision + HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.34:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English, English SDH, French, Spanish.