Photo: Kingsman: The Golden Circle, 20th Century Fox Jeff Bridges is US Statesmen agent Champagne. Even the bagpipes that play over the opening logo sound quite nice, for heaven’s sake - and that never happens. But there’s plenty of harshness-free high-frequency detail in the mix’s treble register too handy for defining an effective sense of space. The dynamic range on show is fearsome, as huge bass surges underpin the film’s frequent explosions and even some elements of the score. Hence we’re left here with just an industry standard HDR10 transfer.Īccompanying The Golden Circle’s flawed visuals is a potent Dolby Atmos soundtrack perhaps given added va-va-voom by the fact that it seems (based on information in the disc’s extra features) to have been Vaughn's first time working with an object based audio format. In fact, it announced at the recent IFA technology show in Berlin that it was going to support the ‘rival’ HDR10+ advanced HDR format instead - but that’s not ready to roll out yet. But 20th Century Fox has yet to sign up for Dolby Vision on 4K Blu-ray. It’s a little disappointing to find no trace of the Dolby Vision picture master The Golden Circle enjoyed on its cinema release. For the most part, though, the HDR impact on the 4K Blu-ray does its usual trick of making the SDR HD Blu-ray look depressingly tepid by comparison. The orangey tone to some of the film’s Kingsman and Statesmen HQ locations can look a bit too heavy handed, and some of the CGI jungle greenery around Poppy’s lair looks less natural than it might. While the addition of reasonably aggressive HDR and an expanded color gamut is usually very welcome, though, it does sometimes look problematic. Poppy never quite feels like a convincing character, even within the madcap world of Kingsman.
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The film was only shot at 2.8K and was only given a 2K digital intermediate for cinema release, and watching the HD Blu-ray confirms that the corner blurring seen at regular intervals throughout the Golden Circle 4K master is less distracting at the lower full HD resolution. However, it’s just a plain fact that the unforgiving nature of 4K and, to some extent, HDR make the blurring look more aggressively obvious than it would look even in a big-screen cinema environment. Which means the focus issues may be unavoidable to some extent (this is why some film fans might disagree with what I’m saying, as the corner focus problems are likely a flaw captured at the moment of filming). The fact that the image also noticeably curves down as it approaches the top left and right corners suggests that the focusing inconsistencies are down to the effects of a very wide angle lens being used for this shot. The people sat in the bottom left and right corners and the guards in the top left and right corners look hugely out of focus compared with the rest of the image so much so that it creates something approaching an almost circular vignetting effect, that draws your eye away from the main action. The thing is, for me Golden Circle’s 4K image is often badly spoiled by some really noticeable focus issues in all four of the film’s corners.Ī particularly glaring example of this occurs with the opening shot of the royal wedding towards the film’s end. Most Golden Circle scenes are more frenetic than this.