Moonfall 4K UHD Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Shot digitally, Moonfall is given an artificial grain structure in post. Either it's poorly applied or Lionsgate's encode can't keep up. Either way, there's a messiness inherent to Moonfall, and at times, ringing suggests the slightest sharpening. That's unfortunate.

Behind all of this, definition performs decently. Facial texture is fair, but the jump to 4K doesn't make a noticeable difference over the Blu-ray. The difference in resolution isn't immediately apparent. Gains all come from the Dolby Vision pass which appears aggressive, blasting the screen in brightness and contrast. Breaking the pure blackness of space, sunlight reflects off metal or the Earth's surface. Moonfall looks spectacularly intense because of this, the dimensionality suitable to an Emmerich blockbuster.

There's also a stable color palette, running on the cooler side, yet not ignoring primaries. Intensity of blues and reds remain consistent. Flesh tones favor the chillier side.

Audio

A beast. A monster. A demon. Call it what you want, but Moonfall's ridiculously massive low-end power will test any system's limits. Explosions rattle rooms and collisions spare nothing on impact. Range shows off at every opportunity, and it's widely varied. Car engines push a light LFE response, and the cataclysms feel appropriately mammoth.

Exquisite design keeps a constant hold on the soundstage. Everything from doors closing to voices to something like electronics humming spread around the soundstage flawlessly. Motion becomes a constant factor, even during dialog sequences. The score keeps momentum going too. Overheads have constant presence when action picks up, or even when not - helicopters pan by through the heights even when on Earth.