The Forbidden Kingdom has many visual spectacles to engage Blu Ray viewers. There are all the martial arts battles. There are the visual effects. There is the epic, historical scenery. Blu Ray delivers in all three areas.
Blu-Ray Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
The opening shot is a pretty sweet composite of a soundstage foreground, visual effect background, golden lighting and everyone enhanced by CGI/wire removal. The ancient Chinese landscape is lush and full green. Even the dead, brown hay looks pretty lush. There’s nature with autumn leaves defining the lighting or waterfalls keeping everything crisp and real, and then there are the constructed sets.
Palatial and temple sets all have a unique color scheme and deliver shiny, vibrant colors. Not to mention all the costumes. There’s usually still some nature element like the sky or trees growing in the courtyard. Modern day sequences have colorful lighting scheme too, but they are hardly the focus.
Fight scenes just keep the fast bodies clear against those gorgeous backdrops. It’s kind of cool to see all these traditional martial arts effect with a modern, flashy, visual effects polish. Normally you’re looking at wires and scratched, dirty film. This is pure Blu Ray.
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