Closeups can seem a bit softer and so I'll address the previous comments about Judi Dench, to me it looks like they either filtered her shots in-camera (though very lightly) or played around in the DI to achieve the same effect, but I can't find confirmation of either scenario and in any case the softness is right there on the Sony Blu-ray as well. It's certainly not super-sharp Sony 4K grain apart from a couple of moments where it really spikes - like on Solange just after Demetrios says 'if that's for luck you're two hours late' - but then that's okay by me.ĭetail is surprisingly well refined, I don't think anyone would mistake this for a 4K rebuild or anything (darn, there goes dat 'reference status', pffft) but wider shots resolve a very decent amount of information, I'm not sure that there's anything over and above what 1080p could do but it genuinely holds the finest details better than the Blu-ray does. No, here there's still a constant buzzing of graininess and as long as one doesn't focus on where things are coming from, rather than where they're going - I must admit that I noticed none of the 'trailing' grain at all on first viewing - then it looks fine, pleasantly filmic even.

I'd be lying if I said that the grain looks entirely normal though, it seems a fraction sluggish and it reminds me a hell of a lot of Fox's treatment of Alien on UHD: if you start watching the outlines of people and objects you'll see the grain warping and trailing behind them, though it isn't like the DNR on the MCU movies which tends to smooth most of the grain away and only leaves behind an isolated 'forcefield' of noise whenever things move. The rest of the film is nowhere near as grainy as this opening and yet there's always an ever-present layer of the stuff helping to add texture.

Right from the start I was digging the UHD as there's a very prominent level of grain in the black and white prologue, even more so in the 'flashback' to Bond fighting the fella in the bathroom which was pumped up in the DI to look insanely gritty, and way more contrasty than the accompanying office scene.

This is going to be the really really really really long version.

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