Leon The Professional 4K (1994) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX

A corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration boss and his thugs murder Mathilda's family in a drug deal gone awry. Orphaned by the massacre, Mathilda is forced to take shelter in the apartment of a neighbor, Léon, whom she knows only slightly. He's a loner and first generation immigrant, who also happens to be a professional hitman. He's never had reason to care about anybody and she has no one else to turn to. Together they form a makeshift bond that will forever change both their lives.

Leon The Professional 4K (1994) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX Review
Léon: The Professional is another shot-on-film catalogue release that looks positively gorgeous on the UHD format. The 2160p, HDR-ehnanced presentation offers a high-yield presentation in terms of both detail and color. The image is sharp but naturally so, lightly and largely consistently grainy, enhancing the presentation and textural assuredness while increasing the presentation's filmic credentials. The film is texturally diverse and, beyond a few softer corners and edges, never fails to offer enticingly complex and very well realized details. Clothes are a particular standout. Whether higher-dollar suits, lower-cost shirts, frayed sweaters, leather jackets, or ski masks and tactical gear, the UHD delivers each example with innate sharpness and superior clarity. Environments are richly diverse and authentic, too. Run-down apartments see well-worn appliances and chipping paint while urban exteriors showcase a variety of brick and concrete textures against any number of sharp and expertly defined support elements. Coloring is fantastic. The image is a bit warm throughout, seeing flesh tones a little on the hot side, at times, but the diversity of popping primaries out on city streets, multicolored labels on items around apartments, and different examples of attire reveal sturdy and deeply saturated colors that benefit from fine gradation and accuracy across a broad range and along both large swaths and small examples alike. Black levels maintain impressive depth throughout. The image struggles with no serious examples of print wear or other maladies from the source or the encode. This is a terrific UHD from Sony.

While the previous "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray featured a Dolby Atmos soundtrack, Blu-ray.com was then not equipped to cover it. While this is not a full-fledged review as most everything from the previous review and the core Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track still applies, here is a brief update. The film delivers an expansive listening environment during action and makes several quality uses of the overhead channels. Shootouts and blasts of more distinctive gunfire offer plenty of oomph and differentiation between caliber and style of weapon; shotguns are more potent than pistol fire, for example, but both are very commanding of the listening environment. There's no shortage of distinct placement and presentation as shots ring out and impact all over the stage. Shattering and flying debris and a din of chaos all accompany many scenes. Gary Oldman yells "EVERYONE!" in the third act, and the result is a mild, but noticeable, overhead reverberation. Sprinklers are set off a few minutes later to much more pronounced top-end effect, easily the most impressive "overhead" moment in the movie.