This movie and soundtrack are surprising better than at first expected but not brilliant. Mr Alan Silvestri (Back To The Future), has a certain touch to his themes which immediately identifies the music as his, but this is missing from this soundtrack. I suppose because the story is set in the age of Vikings and not the twentieth century. Once again, he has teamed with Robert Zemekis to bring music to Mr Zemekis' striking visuals. Besides being heavy with war drums and male choirs singing incomprehensibly, the beginning of this soundtrack is rather non-descript and there seems to be no thread to hold on to for the music.
We are then treated to Robin Wright Penn singing Gently As She Goes from the film, a very Medieval sounding piece. She returns to sing the theme from the film, A Hero Comes Home and suddenly it is as if the soundtrack has found its purpose and picks up on the melody of this song and reproduces it throughout the rest of the tracks beautifully. The album is rounded off with a beautiful version of A Hero Comes Home by Idina Menzel.
Not a great soundtrack but certainly not unable to be listened to.
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