Kill (2024)
किल
Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama • 1h 45m
Director: Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
Cast: Lakshya Lalwani, Raghav Juyal, Tanya Maniktala, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Abhishek Chauhan, Harsh Chhaya, Adrija Sinha, Meenal Kapoor, Madhu Raja, Arun Thakur, Mukesh Chandelia, Aman Ball, Kashyap Kapoor, Calib Logan, Akash Pramanik, Pratap Verma, Shivam Parmar, Komal Chhabria, Nazneen Madan, Jatinder, Vipan Dhavan, Tajinder, Janvi Bansal, Nandini, Ashok Pandey, Parth Tiwari, Saurabh Singh Chauhan, Bhupinder, Shubhranjan, Prashant Sitansh, Belal Shanu, Moses Marton, Anil Sansare, Vivek Kashyap, Ashish Shirke, Akshay Vichare, Devaang Bagga, Mohit Tripathi, Subhan, Sameer, Riyaz Khan, Sahil Gangurde, Aman Waleski, Awdhesh Mishra, Sharuq, Shakti Singh, Manoj Diwakar, Rupesh Kumar, Manish Pandey, Nikhil Kumar, Yakub, Sajid, Amaan, Ashraf, Faizal Sheikh, Jaswant Singh Jassi, Mohammed Javed, Sandeep Shridhar Dhabale, Avanish Pandey, Jitendra Sharma, Dip Boval, Ajitabh Sengupta, Ravi Bhushan, Sahil Takhi, Priyam Gupta, Reyansh Goswami, Monica, Harinder Singh, Mahinder Chauhan, Jake Kashyap, Bhupendra Malhotra, Ashok Singh, Sajid Anwar, Manoj Modi, Ravi Sanghavi, Vishrut Kalra, Bela Fernandes, Komal Sharma, Yakub Ansari
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 1 year ago
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray disappointing, with burned in English subs
UHD tiers
Burned in English subs
Overview
When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.
Director: Jamie Babbit
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray is a disaster. The compression on the base layer is horrid, and the oversized 18 Mbps FEL barely helps.
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray includes original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix, albeit lossy, and a 5.1 surround upmix. The stereo track on previous BD and DVD releases is also lossy and sounds about the same.
Sources: fanrestore.com (opens in a new tab) · originaltrilogy.com (opens in a new tab)
2017 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray and subsequent 4K Blu-rays are notorius for being heavily denoised and smoothened. Alternatively, 35mm scans for the theatrical cut is also available.
For the Ultimate Edition with the T-1000 searching John's room and the happy future ending, the 2009 Skynet Blu-ray, which is the older pre-2017 transfer, but has DNR.
Director: Carol Reed
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray or Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray/Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray (shared encode); slight improvement over the 2015 StudioCanal Blu-ray
StudioCanal/LG UHDs
StudioCanal/LG UHDs port the 1999 Criterion DVD, considered the best source
StudioCanal has a remastered Blu-ray, Lionsgate only a 4K Blu-ray
2D: Spain Emon Blu-ray
3D: US Lionsgate, Germany StudioCanal, or Netherlands Entertainment One 3D Blu-ray?
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for Dec 2026 release
US Lionsgate Blu-ray looks very different from either Italy Eagle Pictures or Germany Kinowelt Blu-ray: https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=502 but other than color grading looks better
Director: Werner Herzog
More Action on Blu-ray
Director: Michael Mann
Director: Guillermo del Toro
WB 4K Blu-ray teased by Guillermo Del Toro
CA Alliance Blu-ray or dutch Blu-ray are the same masters but have additional sharpening.
The original DVD has an isolated score and a exclusive easter egg
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
UK Second Sight Trilogy Boxset 4K Blu-ray
US Magnolia Pictures 4K Blu-ray uses the same source but with worse encoding
Director: Terence Young
WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
Has English subtitles, better than 2015 Maiden Blu-ray which lacks the original mix
Bandai 4K Blu-ray? vs 2008 Japan Bandai Blu-ray (BCXA-0085): same video but includes Bandai English dub and original mix
2026 Bandai 4K Blu-ray
Director: James Cameron
Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)
Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling
Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling
An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908
Director: Michael Arias
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray is a sharpened upscale. Caps
GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a true lossless English dub and correct volume levels for the Japanese audio
Director: Roger Christian
Theatrical Version: Mill Creek Blu-ray
Home Video Version: Concorde Blu-ray
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