Video Quality
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum is presented in 4K UHD courtesy of Lionsgate Films with a 2160p transfer in 2.40:1. When this presentation is hitting on all cylinders, which it often is, it's a wonder to behold, with superbly crisp detail levels and a beautiful accounting of the film's purple, teal and blue infused palette. Dolby Vision adds a number of interesting highlights to an already highly stylized sense of color, and it also boosts shadow detail which helps define a number of darker sequences. "Little" items like the magenta clothing the Director wears in the ballet scenes also benefit from addied tonal delineations. There are some really interesting kind of green-yellow tones in some of the scenes with Sofia in this version and the underlying orange hue that is already evident in the 1080p presentation during the scene where a dog gets shot in this film also looks slightly more buttery in this presentation. My only niggling qualm here is that some midrange shots look a bit less clear and well defined than I had expected. These include the kind of hallucinogenic climax scenes where big projections run behind the combatants. I'm also not sure if this is a case of effects being more "transparent" in this increased resolution, but the obviously computer aided hues appended to skyscrapers some of the shots establishing a rain drenched New York flicker ever so slightly in this version, something that wasn't evident, or at least as evident, in the 1080p Blu-ray version.
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Audio Quality
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum features a stupendously energetic Dolby Atmos track that announces its "verticality" from the first moment, with a fantastically fun downward panning sound that immediately establishes the dimensionality of the sound design. The bustling, rainy urban environment provides a glut of opportunities for nice ambient environmental effects surrounding and occasionally passing over the listener, and the many bone crunching sound effects in the fight scenes are realistically spread throughout the sound stage. Dialogue is always rendered cleanly and clearly on this track, one that offers excellent fidelity and extremely wide dynamic range.
4K Bluray details
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265 (63.15 Mbps)
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (224 kbps)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 kbps)
Subtitles
English SDH, French, Spanish
Discs
4K Ultra HD
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD-100, 1 BD-50)
Digital
Digital copy expired
Digital 4K
iTunes
Packaging
Slipcover in original pressing
Playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free
2K Blu-ray: Region A