Broken Arrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Hans Zimmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 1996)
• Original Release Date: February 13, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Milan Records
• ASIN: B0000015L1
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,899 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Soundtrack Ever Made!, July 26, 2001

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Sean L. (Twin Peaks, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Arrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

The soundtrack to "Broken Arrow" is truly a masterpiece from start to finish. Hans Zimmer makes beautiful scores for the first three minutes of each track, then dives into them and makes a tour de force of music magic! Don't get turned off because the CD only has eight tracks. The average time for each track is about eight minutes. If you're a film buff, then you have no business not owning this album.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best action scores out there, but needs a better release, April 13, 2002

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Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Arrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

For such a mediocre film Broken Arrow sure has a score that soars past the quality of the images that inspired it. Without Hans Zimmer's music it does not have a chance on its own two legs.

Zimmer uses the music to explore a zillion different moods and atmospheres from sad to sinister, and action-packed to supersonic. He uses everything at his disposal: children's choirs with angelic and haunting voices, heavy guitar melodies, pounding drums, sad, lonely trumpets, booming synth, and eerie bells. I'm not kidding, Zimmer gives it absolutely everything he's got and has created a highly thematic and engaging score. Why can't he go back to scoring movies like this.

There are multiple themes (the main melody itself reconfigured from Zimmer's own Paperhouse) across the eight tracks. But, as with the Paperhouse CD, Zimmer has arranged the music in long suites that are completely out of chronological order and leave many omissions.

This eight-track CD runs for 59 minutes and 14 seconds. The COMPLETE and CHRONOLOGICAL score runs for 87 minutes and 34 seconds with the following track listing:

01. Main Title / Boxing / Locker Bet (5:03)
02. Reveal The Stealth / Nukes / Cockpit Chatter (1:53)
03. Transition (0:39)
04. Stealth Mode / Deak's Story / Narrowed Eyes (6:20)
05. Flight Command Discovers Crash (0:18)
06. The Brass Confer (1:16)
07. First Team Arrives / Nukes Are Gone (2:43)
08. Hale Alone In Desert / Hale Meets Terry (3:44)
09. Helicopter Attacks Hale / Chopper Explodes (3:50)
10. Giles & Lomax Compare Notes / Haz-Mat Team (2:14)
11. Hale Sees Convoy / Jump To Trunk / Gas Bomb (4:53)
12. The Old Mine / Offloading Nukes / Deak In Pursuit (1:53)

CD2
01. Hale & Deak Talk / Nukes Armed / Deak To Mine / Shootout (15:50)
02. Deak Kills Pritchett / Water Escape / EMP (2:17)
03. Butterflies / Comfort (1:57)
04. Deak's Feelings / Boat Stowaways / Split Up (3:28)
05. Hale Talks To Lomax / The Rope-A-Dope (2:19)
06. Deak's Getaway Plan / Stowaway / Hammer Time (2:18)
07. Faceoffs / Standoffs / Gun Battle / Rotor Death / Impaled (17:05)
08. Finding $20 Bill / Terry & Hale Introduce Themselves / End Credits (7:34)

Perhaps one day a better label than Milan (such as La-La Land Records) will release the complete score. But for now, by this CD and cherish it. All score collector should own it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Arrow is right on Target!, January 30, 2002

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E -Man (Panama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Broken Arrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Hans Zimmer's work on the soundtrack for Broken Arrow is one of the things that movie great. The track I like the most is Broken Arrow alot like Crimson Tide and The Rock. It has wastern sound to it and alot of guitar in Deakins theme and in Hale's theme. A ton of action music and simply Hans Zimmer. And if you are Hans Zimmer fan and you don't have this soundtrack yet, make sure you get this CD the next time you buy a soundtrack. Buy it and you want regret it.