Spider-Man No Way Home 4K UHD Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Dolby Vision powers this generally colorful Marvel adventure. This gives flesh tones an obnoxiously glowing hue, but other primaries stick their landing better. Spider-Man's suit(s) push an intense red that can stand out in any condition. Vividness fills most environments, even the Doc Strange dungeon that's stuffed with dark blues.

Matching the Marvel style, contrast favors a duller aesthetic leaving shadows veering toward gray. Not all, but most. Dimensionality suffers, although there's no lack of brightness to go around. No Way Home sports spectacular highlights. It's generous, glistening, and a constant performer. More than just sunlight, little flecks reflect from Spider-Man's various metal pieces, bouncing off the black and sparing nothing. Strange's magic sizzles and glows every time.

Holding this disc back is the lagging 2K-sourced DI. While unobstructed clarity earns high marks, the resulting detail (or lack of) doesn't gain much from the format. If anything, UHD exposes the limitations, like flattened facial definition. No Way Home looks overly smoothed as a result, either a choice or the upscale's aftereffects. Aliasing though, that's certainly an upscale issue; look at the power lines before (and even after) the Electro fight. Lucky then the HDR pass can lift No Way Home from an average designation.

Audio

Shooting webs through the city, Atmos effects play nice alongside Spider-Man's motion. Heights factor in prominently, even for less action-intensive things like when Strange first casts the spell, small sounds bouncing between rears and overheads. It's as subtle as it is bombastic. Major action scenes manage to find every angle worth capturing. Exceptional debris fields wash across the soundstage, absolutely accurate as they do so. The Mirrorverse sequence maintains total, complete spectacle, both in positioning and bass response.

Out of Disney's hands, bass erupts. Marvelous low-end accentuates helicopter rotors, Doc Oc's tentacles, Electro's bolts, explosions, crashing cars, and whatever else needs a jolt. Well-considered range varies the impacts, keeping scale and power appropriate to the visuals. At the deepest, No Way Home shakes an entire room, along with anything in it.