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Title: Awesome score, just not enough of it here
Review: Once again, as with 'Pirates of the Caribbean', Klaus Badelt has written an awesome action score for Wolfgang Petersen's 'Poseidon'. The only problem with it is that there is considerably less of the score than I would have liked to see. The movie is about 90 minutes long, so where is the rest of that score? The actual CD is only about 40 minutes long and 3 of those songs are from the party scene. I expected those songs to be included but the score is what I'd liked to have seen more of. Having said that, Badelt's work is well tuned to the events in the movie - sharp percussion punctuating the score as the ship is rolled upside down by the rogue wave, and brass crescendos as the survivors make breakthroughs in their attempts to escape. Brass & strings also portray the grand ship 'Poseidon', as it glides along the water in the opening sequence - an apparent mastery of engineering & technology. Highly recommended!
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