Everything builds up the action packed finale "I Rise, You Fall." this plays with the Egypt battle and plays off the earlier evil as we get the heroic Autobot theme reigning triumphant.
Overall, this is a very good score that fans will want to have in their collection. Granted, I am still more likely to reach for the original (same goes for the movies), but there is no denying that the score is one of the high points of the movie and Steve Jablonsky continues to impress.
As good as it is, it does seem to run short. We get 44-minutes of score from a movie that is nearly 2.5-hours long. There have to be missing cues here. It is the reverse situation of the soundtrack release, which had songs that were not in the film, in this case I suspect we are missing chunks of music that may have helped smooth this out, as it does jump around a bit.
Bottomline. You will not be disappointed. Of the two music releases for this film, this is definitely the one to get. This is a big score that bears no pretense of subtlety, it is exactly what you want from a score for a film whose stars are giant alien roots.
Highly Recommended.
Article comments
1 - heroface
Perhaps you can help, What is the name of the score track used over and over during the movie AND in most of the trailers... not the linkin park song... the pounding epic one. thanks if you can help I've been searching everywhere