

The battle rages around the estate, resulting in shattering glass, splintering wood, and the tinkling of falling brass around the room putting Atmos’ object tracking to wonderful use. Be warned, the scene is pretty brutal, especially near the beginning where Felix takes a rather unfortunate gunshot to the head, so demo it with care. It’s a terrific demo scene with a ton of action and intensity and culminates in an amazing inferno of audio as fire crackles all around the room. The first gun shots come in big and loud from the front right as Felix (Javier Bardem), Terrier (Sean Penn), and Annie (Jasmine Trinca) are attacked by multiple assailants. The film’s marquee demo is found in Chapter 11 at the 57-minute mark and lasts about seven minutes.

This is an interesting movie that has some decent action and a totally shredded Sean Penn, clearly getting jacked for his meeting with El Chapo. To save you some time trying to find the best scenes to demo, I’m gonna pinpoint each film’s marquee Atmos audio moment-as I did in a previous post where I reviewed the best scenes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Wick, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Gravity, American Sniper, and Jupiter Ascending. I’ve been fortunate enough to watch nearly every Dolby Atmos-encoded Blu-ray disc that has been released so far and while some of the movies are terrific ( Gravity) others are more just things you suffer through ( Jupiter Ascending).
