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Title: Not much, but what's there is choice...
Review: Everyone's gone on about how loud this score is and how it has no cohesiveness. Well, they're right, it's loud and it's scattered, which is why there are only two reasons to listen to this score: "Dark Phoenix's Tragedy" and "Phoenix Rises".I won't get all fan-boy on this, but they should have made a movie just for Dark Phoenix just so Powell could unleash the fury of a theme that makes this soundtrack worth listening to. I haven't heard something so agonizing and beautiful in a long time, expecially from a composer who is responsible for mostly popcorn action flick scores (not that they aren't good, they're just not known for their substance.)The X-films haven't had much of a showing for film scores, and probably won't any more if this last one was really that, the "last" one, but Powell has managed to bring together a piece of work that, while lacking cohesion, is still an incredibly powerful score.
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