The encoding here is crucial. At 2160p, the bitrate holds up beautifully. There’s no banding in the famous "green tint" scenes of the Matrix, and the black levels (more on that in a second) are crushed only where they are supposed to be. The Star of the Show: HDR If you are watching this on a standard 4K TV without HDR, you are only seeing half the movie.
There are movies that look good on 4K Blu-ray, and then there are movies that feel like they were made for it. Twenty-seven years after it broke our brains (and our VHS players), The Matrix has finally found its definitive physical format.
This UHD release is reference quality. It belongs in the same conversation as Blade Runner 2049 and 2001: A Space Odyssey .