Avengers endgame 3d blu ray review năm 2024

Well, the Russos sure showed me. Despite being a big fan of the brothers’ earlier Marvel movies, I came away from Infinity War feeling that some of it felt a little leaden by their usual high standards - as if they’d maybe been overwhelmed by the sheer weight and scale of what they were trying to do.

With Endgame, though, they’ve nailed it. From the unexpectedly intimate but gut-wrenching opening scene through to the monstrous scale of the climactic battle and the poignant final send offs for key characters we’ve grown to love over the past decade, pretty much every beat works perfectly.

There are plenty of trademark Marvel belly laughs along the way, and the script does a remarkable job of giving all the characters an appropriate amount of screen time while simultaneously developing a decently credible time travel narrative.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

The result is an immersive, emotional, genuinely epic experience that against all the odds delivers a truly satisfying conclusion to an unprecedentedly huge series of much-loved films.

It turns out, too, that Avengers: Endgame is extremely rewatchable - great news for anyone thinking of investing in this 4K Blu-ray release.

The only pity is that Disney hasn’t put as much effort into the 4K Blu-ray transfer of its pop culture epic as the Russo brothers put into the film itself.

Release details

Studio: Disney/Marvel

What you get: Region-free 4K Blu-ray disc, Region A/B/C HD Blu-ray, Region A/B/C bonus feature Blu-ray

Extra Features: Featurettes on Iron Man’s movie legacy, Captain America’s movie legacy, Black Widow’s movie legacy, Stan Lee’s movie legacy, the Russo Brothers journey to Endgame, and the women of the MCU; six deleted scenes; gag reel; director and writer commentary track

Best sound mix: Dolby Atmos

HDR picture options: HDR10

Key kit used for this review: Panasonic 55GZ1500, Samsung 65Q90R, Oppo 205, Panasonic UB820

Picture quality

While Endgame’s picture quality is good enough to consistently deliver a substantial upgrade over the HD Blu-ray image, it isn’t quite the reference grade release I can’t help but feel Disney could have achieved if it had really wanted to.

Let’s cover the good news first. Starting with the fact that the image is super-clean. There’s scarcely a hint of grain or noise at any point, leaving you with a polished, consistent finish ideally suited to helping you become engrossed in Endgame’s characters and superheroic shenanigans.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

There’s a more solid, expansive but also subtle look to the 4K Blu-ray’s colors than you get with the HD Blu-ray too. This isn’t as consistently aggressively used as we’ve seen with some previous Marvel releases (especially Guardians Of The Galaxy 2). But there are certainly some spectacular, high-volume colour highlights alongside the generally richer grading, such as Tony Stark’s illuminated heart, and Captain Marvel’s ‘look ma, I can fly!’ glow.

More importantly, while the Avengers: Endgame transfer certainly doesn’t always look dazzlingly vibrant and bold (in fact, it often looks quite dark), the extra color range does make the world feel richer and more spatially defined. Nowhere more so than near the start in the beautifully toned and contrast-rich sequence where Stark and Nebula are marooned in deep space.

Skin tones avoid the slightly waxy look they sometimes take on with the HD Blu-ray image too and, unusually (but appropriately), the HDR and wide color grade is used to create a more somber mood than the HD Blu-ray’s flatter, less expressive SDR master.

It’s worth noting that according to my Panasonic UB820 4K Blu-ray player, the film has been mastered into a 4000-nit ‘container’ - but no more specific MaxFALL and Max Light Level values have been provided. This leads to some really quite extreme contrast at times, where small points of bright light can stand out with great intensity against dark surroundings. Check out, for instance, the spotlights around the dark field and the blue LEDs in War Machine’s powered leg braces as Iron Man is brought back to Earth by Captain Marvel.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

This extreme contrast plays to OLED screen strengths in one way, as they’re able to deliver such small areas of light without sacrificing either the intensity of the light or the depths of the darkness around them. The Endgame transfer tended to cause more evidence of backlight ‘blooming’ on my reference LCD than most 4K Blu-rays do.

On the other hand, though, trying to cope with such an extreme brightness range can lead the film to look rather dark on OLED screens, while high quality LCD screens are (sometimes) able to maintain a higher average level of brightness.

I didn’t always find the Avengers: Endgame picture spectacularly sharp or detailed for a 4K Blu-ray. Some shots look great - crisp and 4K. But others look markedly softer. Never as soft as the HD Blu-ray, but sufficient of a step down at times from the crispest shots for the difference to be noticeable.

The film only received a 2K digital intermediate for its cinema run despite being shot at 6.5K. An upscale of this 2K DI is presumably the basis of the 4K Blu-ray release, which may partly explain the moments of softness. That said, I’ve seen a number of really impressive 2K upscales on other releases.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

So maybe the moments of slight softness are either deliberate, perhaps to stop the special effects from looking too obviously lower in resolution than the live video footage, or else there’s another technical limitation in play. Such as Disney’s likely not helpful decision to master this three hour visual feast of a movie onto a mere 66GB Blu-ray disc.

I don’t know if Disney chose to use 66GB discs to save money or because it couldn’t get hold of enough 100GB discs to meet its 4K BD sales expectations for this biggest of all blockbuster films. Whatever the reason behind the decision, though, you can’t help but think it contributes to the way picture is typically delivered with a bit rate lower - sometimes much lower - than 40Mbps. That’s far short of the 108Mbps potential of the 4K Blu-ray format on 66GB discs.

The transfer does, to be fair, hit some impressive bit-rate peaks from time to time - even occasionally sneaking into the 90Mbps level. This rather extreme approach to bit-rate management, though, seems to merely underline the sense that trying to fit a three-hour 4K film onto a 66GB disc may have been quite a challenge.

Another disappointment with the Endgame release is its lack of any dynamic HDR format support. You only get a ‘basic’ HDR10 picture; there’s no HDR10+ or Dolby Vision option, which could have boosted the picture’s dynamism by adding extra scene by scene data to the image stream.

I can't help but think that adding some scene by scene metadata via HDR10+ or Dolby Vision might have helped screens better manage some of the brightness issues I mentioned earlier.

To be fair, Disney hasn’t worked with Dolby Vision on 4K Blu-ray since Black Panther, and has never issued a film in HDR10+.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

Also, while going for HDR10+ might not have added too much to the already squeezed data space situation, adding Dolby Vision metadata likely wouldn’t have helped the issue of fitting so much film into so little disc space at all. But then, that’s where a 100GB BD would have again come in handy. And just because Disney appears to have a policy of not working with HDR10+ doesn’t mean consumers don’t have a right to expect the release of such a high profile film to try and do whatever necessary to provide fans with the absolute best picture experience.

Let’s not forget that Fox recently set aside its policy of not supporting Dolby Vision on 4K Blu-ray for its release of Alita: Battle Angel (), which was provided in both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats. This meant that the film’s legions of fans could get to enjoy it in its most dynamic picture form regardless of which HDR format their TV brand supported.

Alita also included the 3D Blu-ray of the film for free within the 4K package - something else Disney hasn’t done for the Avengers: Endgame 4K Blu-ray release.

Finally in the disappointment column, there’s no support for Endgame’s IMAX shooting. The film plays in 2.39:1 throughout, with none of the switching to a narrower ratio we see with films (such as Dunkirk and The Dark Knight) that do use IMAX assets on 4K Blu-ray.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

To be fair (again!), as essentially the whole of Endgame was shot for IMAX, an IMAX version of the film would have likely stuck with the narrower ratio throughout. Which probably wouldn’t have gone down well with fans of the film’s wider ratio. But it might have been interesting to see, at least, if using some IMAX assets could have yielded sharper, more detailed pictures, as it has on those Christopher Nolan titles I mentioned. Maybe we could even have been provided with an IMAX-format version of the film on a separate disc. But I’m probably being a bit too idealistic with that one.

Sound quality

Mercifully, the Dolby Atmos soundtrack found exclusively on the Endgame 4K Blu-ray (the HD BD only gets a non object-based DTS HD Master Audio track) is not another one of Disney’s bizarrely compressed, lifeless efforts.

Particularly gratifying is the presence of some genuinely expansive bass, which gives suitably epic impact to the film’s, well, epic impacts. Check out, too, the massive rumbles as Captain Marvel gives Iron Man’s space ship a ‘lift’ back to Avengers HQ.

The mix is very polished and balanced, wrapping you up in a smooth bubble of sound completed by more consistent use of the height channels - especially for scoring work and atmospherics - than we’re accustomed to hearing with Disney Atmos mixes. The way the music is mixed into the action is particularly good, layering the sound both vertically and horizontally around the entire soundstage to create an at times really beautiful effect that greatly enhances the emotion of the film’s most poignant moments.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

I still found the Avengers: Endgame mix more compelling with my sound system turned three or four notches above its usual reference level, as has been the case with many of Disney’s previous, less successful Atmos 4K Blu-ray mixes. Also, the bass sometimes feels slightly inappropriate in the weight it gives some a throwback to previous problematic Disney releases, and I didn’t think the use of all the channels - particularly the height ones - was quite as aggressive and kinetic in terms of effects placement and object transitions as it could have been.

These are small blemishes overall, though, on a soundtrack which, while not quite consistent enough to class as reference level, does at least feel appropriate to the massive scale of the film it accompanies.

Extra features

Found predominantly on a separate Bonus Features disc, the extras provided for Avengers: Endgame are - like so much about this release - solid rather than inspiring.

Probably the best thing about them is the retrospective focus many of them take. The first 7-minute featurette, for instance, is a delightful homage to Stan Lee, looking back at his cameo appearances in the Marvel films and including some brilliant on-set interview clips that really capture the heart and wit of the creative genius behind today’s Marvel movie empire.

There are also fairly short but still satisfying look backs over the film legacy of Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow.

Photo: Avengers: Endgame, Disney/Marvel

Other featurettes on the dedicated Bonus Features disc include a short but fun (in that it’s packed with behind the scenes footage) look at the Russo Brothers ‘Journey to Endgame’; a quick look at the range and influence of the female characters in the MCU; a very funny look at the creation of ‘fat Thor’; a sub two minute gag reel; and a selection of six short deleted scenes.

These cut bits are mostly more amusing than profound, and in some cases are arguably more interesting for their unfinished special effects than the content they contain. The last one, showing the Avengers kneeling in tribute to Iron Man, is perhaps the most interesting. Though at the same time, not putting it in the final film feels like it was 100% the correct decision!

It’s a pity that the deleted scenes, short though they are, don’t come with any introductory/accompanying commentary explaining why they ended up on the cutting room floor.

The last and most substantial feature, a commentary track by the Russo brothers and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, is unhelpfully only found on the HD Blu-ray of the film. It’s well worth hunting out, though, as all the way through it provides great insights into the sorts of decisions and issues that go into piecing together a film of this complexity.

All of this is fine so far as it goes. But I couldn’t help feeling that Disney/Marvel could also have provided a lot more behind the scenes coverage. Especially having made the decision to devote a whole separate Blu-ray to bonus content.

Verdict

There’s nothing flat-out bad about the Avengers: Endgame 4K Blu-ray release. Picture and sound quality are perfectly acceptable and good respectively, and the bonus features are solid. The film itself is a serious achievement, and being able to now watch it straight after Infinity War really emphasizes what a great job the Russos did of marshaling so many characters across such a mammoth story line.

It’s just a pity that Disney didn’t go the extra mile in a few key areas to make the Avengers: Endgame 4K Blu-ray the true cutting edge AV feast it deserves to be.

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