Once Upon A Time In The West 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Another day, and another controversial 4K UHD Blu-ray release! Is Once Upon A Time In The West worth upgrading to 4K? Is it really all that bad? Let's talk about it in this 4K review!

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[paulkersey]

BTW. Scorsese approved the 2007 restoration not this disc

[JoseRodriguez-lowi]

A western that needs a 4k transfer is Tombstone, that movie would also sound amazing with a DTS X or Atmos mix

[dougo]

Haven’t seen it on 4K yet

Once Upon a Time in the West is an absolute Masterpiece film. Top 25 motion picture of all time. The opening and ending sequences are Leone’s Magnum Opus.

Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale performances are impeccable.

I wasn’t even alive when it was released.

[chrisstephens]

That scene where Henry Fonda and his gang murder the family and just emerged from the desert out of nowhere like ghosts was one of the most beautiful scenes in film. With Morricone’s music giving you goosebumps. 🎥❤️

[travisspazz]

In search of physical media has some good screen cap comparisons in his video.

Glad to hear the 4K is a noticeable upgrade for one of the best westerns ever!

[luckyrockmore]

One of the best westerns ever! Soundtrack as always by anything by Ennio Morricone is phenomenal

[moomcmoosson]

They put it on a 66GB disc because they compressed it down as much as possible to fit it on such a disc. Does it look like crap? No. Could it look better? Hell yes. This, sadly, is a cheap and lazy effort. I wish Studios would just stop releasing UHDs and just license them out to Boutique labels. At least they give a crap.

[jhberg]

Pretty much every big movie that comes out on 4k someone on utube will say it’s a terrible transfer… and others will say it’s a reference disc.. happened with The Thing, Godfather, and the Cameron movies. It’s exhausting. If I like the movie I’ll get it. Screw it.

[Asoleimani]

I saw screenshot comparisons and yeah the 4K is a lot better. I don’t think these technical details will matter much in the long run.

[MsUltraBob]

By far my favourite western if it looks better than my standard blu ray I can safely upgrade. It already looked great on that too.

[VIDEOgameDROME]

I'm told the Kalleidoscape version was bigger and it's how it should have looked on a 100gb disc. This was just paramount cutting corners to save money.

[CalleoPelias]

That soundtrack by Morricone, love it.

[Ninjabob]

Thanks for mentioning the lower bitrate. I’ve noticed this on many Paramount 4K discs that I have (mostly Star Trek movies and the 1976 King Kong) and, even though those discs look okay, I was always perplexed why the Paramount discs consistently maxed out at rates like 40 or 50 when my other 4Ks are regularly in the 80s or 90s. Like you said, bitrate isn’t everything, but I do wonder why Paramount’s rates seem to be consistently lower.

[georgevillalvazo]

I bought a Sony master series 83 inch TV OLED and a Panasonic UB 9000 4K THX certified Blu-ray DVD player!👍

[claudepoulin]

I never upgraded this from DVD and watched that endlessly. Ordered this and looking forward to seeing the crane shot where the main actress arrives in town and it pans up over station.

[DelBoy]

As westerns go this is one of the best! One of my all time favs for sure. Just upgraded to an OLED and a 4k player so might have to give this one a go.

[CoinOpTV]

Looking forward to this release such a classic flick - the only thing that annoys me is I pre-ordered at $37 then the price shifted to $30 at release

[pete]

It was filmed on 35mm TWO PERF! So it's logical to think the 4k restoration end result is as good as possible. Also, consider this was filmed on color negative stock of the 60's, which is inferior to subsequent modern color negative films offering significant gains in sharpness, contrast, finer grain

[richardskelding]

I often think there's a placebo effect when it comes to 4K films. Are you going to see a noticeable difference between 40 and 80 in terms of bit rate? No you're not. There's a lot of reviewers out there that will look into statistics way too much. I respect the straight up honesty from you Jeff, just calling it how you see it, that's a real review!

[danielparker]

Definitely on my list of must have classics.