Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 4K Blu-ray 2018 REMUX

4K remux movie, the Suicide Squad tries to find a powerful mystical object. Task Force X, consisting of Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Killer Frost, Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang and Copperhead, race and battle other villains for the object.
For more about Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 4K and the Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 4K Blu-ray release, see Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay 4K Blu-ray Review published by Michael Reuben on April 12, 2018 where this Blu-ray release scored 3.5 out of 5.

Review 4K Blu-ray
Everything I said about Batman and Harley Quinn and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight in 4K applies equally to Warner's 2160p, HEVC/H.265-encoded UHD of Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay; so I'll repeat it here. Watching this 4K disc, you might be pardoned for thinking that you made a mistake and inserted the standard Blu-ray instead. There is no visible uptick in detail, which is hardly surprising given the minimalist style of the animation. (Contrast the busy style of LEGO Batman, where 4K/HDR adds texture and brings out minutia crammed into the overstuffed frame.) Hell to Pay's 4K image is yet another demonstration that increased resolution doesn't automatically improve an image. There has to be something to resolve.

Nor does HDR encoding provide a meaningful benefit. The palette is essentially the same as the standard Blu-ray's, and while colors may be a bit more refined, the HDR grading isn't a revisionist take that adds "pop" where there wasn't any before. The same brighter colors that stood out against muted backgrounds stand out just as much—and no more—on both formats. The darkness of locations like Amanda Waller's control room or the rear cars of Tobias Whale's train are just as dark, with maybe a hint of greater contrast here and there. The scenes of the squad's RV on the open road are just as bright, and no brighter; the same goes for the various emanations of super powers.

Hell to Pay doesn't even offer the advantage of an absence of minor banding, which is the biggest difference I saw on prior DCU animated features between the 1080p and the 4K versions. Unless I missed it, banding is kept in check on Hell to Pay's standard Blu-ray.

[System calibrated for UHD using (a) a Klein K-10A Colorimeter with a Custom Profile made in CalMAN using a Colorimetry Research CR250 Spectroradiometer; (b) Murideo Fresco SIX-G UHD signal generator with HDR10 and Dolby Vision capability; and (c) SpectraCal CalMAN Software v. 5.8.2.85. Calibration performed by Kevin Miller of ISFTV.]

Info blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1

Audio
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
Note: Spanish DD 2.0=Castillian...

Subtitles
English SDH, French, Spanish
Note: Spanish=Latin & Castillia..