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The Sentinel

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Although I was familiar with composer Christophe Beck's work on the TV series Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (which was excellent), I didn't consider his orchestral score for Elektra to be one of his best scores, and I wondered what kind of orchestral score he'd come up with for The Sentinel.

Well, I can safely say that this score more than makes up for Elektra. It's 53 minutes of pulse-pounding music, which begins with the Main Title Theme, which I particularly liked. That sense of tension and suspense continues throughout the rest of the album, especially in the cues, "The Mall", "City Hall", "Garrison's Polygraph" (ever wonder what biting one's fingernails sounds like? you'll hear it in this cue) and "Assassin Down".

These cues reminded me of Jerry Goldsmith's score for U.S. Marchals, because although there are some electronics in the score for The Sentinel, Beck -- like Goldsmith -- wisely keeps them in the background, while allowing the orchestra to convey the suspenseful and tense mood of the film.

The score of The Sentinel is worth listening to, and I highly recommend it.

This soundtrack from the movie "The Sentinel", is simply a bomb. The whole CD can match the excitement that I see in the movie. Every track is unique and tense. When I listen to this CD, I feel like I am into tense stages especially in track 1, 7, and 14. Overall, brilliant soundtrack.

A fine action thriller starring Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland is given a nice music score that throbs and pulsates with tension. The music fairly drips with suspense and the cues for the chase scenes, of which there are many in the film, come to life without benefit of visual effects or dialogue. The track, "Main Titles" is a great introduction to the CD and "Union Station" is a base-driven cue that builds in stress and anticipation. "The Affair", with an obvious nod to Kim Basinger", is also a nice cue with undercurrents of stealth and deception, as is "Fugitive". Perhaps the best track here is "No Second Shot", which just might embody the entire motif of this soundtrack. The cues throughout the score do have a certain similarity but the music is wonderful and can be enjoyed outside the context of the movie.