Tron: Ares - The Future Is Already Here in 4K Blu-ray

With the 4K release, the second sequel Tron: Ares confirms itself as much more than a simple nostalgic return. It's a total audiovisual experience, designed to express its maximum potential precisely in a high-level home context with dynamic HDR and a sound system that can envelop you like a futuristic electronic club.

Directed by Joachim Rønning, the film abandons any narrative caution to become a continuous flow of ideas, images, and movement. The digital and real worlds are no longer opposites, but communicating surfaces that constantly contaminate each other. In this scenario moves Ares, played by Jared Leto, an artificial entity born as a weapon and destined to question its role, freedom, and the meaning of existence.

Reference Technical Spectacle

The 4K Blu-ray impressively enhances the film's visual geometry: digital architectures, the luminous trails of vehicles, and reflective surfaces acquire an almost hypnotic depth. The soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is also fundamental, transforming every sequence into a pulsating sensory experience, suspended between rave and philosophical meditation.

More than telling a classic story, Tron: Ares explores highly topical themes: artificial intelligence, technological control, creation, and moral responsibility. In UHD, all of this emerges with even greater force. A work that in 4K doesn't just ask to be seen, but absorbed. Here is Elisa Giudici's review.

Filmed natively in 8K (Red Tron V-Raptor XL), finalized on a 4K master from which the video encoding began with reference results. Also by virtue of Dolby Vision and generous encoding, the spectacle is total, especially on large 10-bit screens, enhancing even the most distant elements, with deep blacks and vibrant colors. Image format 2.39:1 (3840 x 2160/23.97p), HEVC encoding on a dual-layer BD-66; for IMAX theaters, some sequences were made in 1.90:1, which are absent here.

Excellent audio offering with Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 channels (1024 kbps), capable of enhancing the viewing experience with effects, dialogue, and explosions, provided that listening occurs via a Home Theater system with true discrete channels. On the podium is the original Dolby TrueHD 7.1.4 (24 bit) with ATMOS objects, thrilling, engaging with aggressive dynamics and a cinema-like result.

Tron: Ares - 4K Steelbook

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Extras on the included 2K Blu-ray: promotional featurette with cast and crew interviews, with backstage moments (12'); focus on the film's iconic vehicles and their use in action sequences (7'); focus on set design and visual aesthetics (6'); short dialogues between pairs of performers, including Jared Leto and Jeff Bridges (5'); remembrance of previous chapters and easter eggs (5'); approximately 2' of deleted scenes. Italian subtitles.