Point Of No Return: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Nina Simone, Hans Zimmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 1993)
• Original Release Date: March 23, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000002WNX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,877 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hate

2. Happy Birthday, Maggie

3. Wedding Bells

4. Hells Kitchen

5. Here Comes the Sun

6. I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl

7. Feeling Good

8. Wild Is the Wind

9. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What can you say, its a Nina Simone!, April 18, 2000

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Roger Santos - See all my reviews

This review is from: Point Of No Return: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

What can you say, its a Nina Simone spectacle. Nina stole the night and blew away everything with her contribution to this movie. I've said it once and I'll say it again. Luc Besson's "La Femme Nikita" is a great movie, unbeaten by this one. However, both Bridget Fonda and the movie's soundtrack beats is precursor. No wonder Nina is called The High Priestess of Soul, in only five tracks you have it all. Heaven on earth with her enlighted voice on the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun", a true sex machine of desire with "I what a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and "Feeling Good", and love with despair on "Wild Is The Wind" and "Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair". She can make you laugh, cry or think about life only with the way she sings! Hans Zimmer's score also is superb but this is Nina's show. Great work. Worth buying ten time if necessary.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the soundtrack that belongs on both movies, July 14, 2000

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Stephen H. Hancock "shancock" (Spotsylvania, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Point Of No Return: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This is a great soundtrack on two levels. The first four cuts are by Hans Zimmer and they capture perfectly the tone of both films.

There are two versions, the original by Luc Besson which has a soundtrack composed entirely of elevator music and in my opinion not worth buying.

This is the soundtrack of the American Remake. This soundtrack is wonderful. It belongs on both films.

Nina Simone has 5 wonderful tracks on this CD including the hard to find Beatles song 'Here Comes the Sun'. But the tracks by Hans Zimmer really capture the spirit of the films underlying mood and emotions. They are inspired and strangely inspirational. This is wonderful stuff and above the ordinary, a very complex and wonderful CD.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Discover Nina Simone, November 8, 2001

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"theladypandora" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Point Of No Return: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Audio CD)

This movie soundtrack I fell in love with the first time I had seen the film. I wanted to find out why Maggie was so moved by this woman's voice. It has since turned me onto Nina Simone myself, she is everything from soulful to gospel to blues and more. Discover her yourself, you won't be disppointed! This is one of my favorite soundtracks.

Thanks for reading!
~Pandora