Track Listing

1. Why So Serious
2. I'm Not A Hero
3. Harvey Two Face
4. Aggressive Expansion
5. Always A Catch
6. Blood On My Hands
7. Little Push
8. Like A Dog Chasing Cars
9. I Am The Batman
10. And I Thought My Jokes Were Bad
11. Agent Of Chaos
12. Introduce A Little Anarchy
13. Watch The World Burn
14. Dark Knight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Running time: 74 minutes

Customer Reviews

Listen to a new era of Batman!!!!
Wow, great soundtrack!! A new era of Batman deserves a new era in music and sound to show just how much it has evoloved since the cartoon style films of the 80's and 90's! Zimmer is perfect to open up the explosive score with the harsh drums and suspencefull ear churning screeches of string instruments!!! With a definate style throughtout, the composers take you on a journey of fast paced drums and loud brass, to the harmonic, tranquil use of string and melody! Overall the scores represents a dark, suspensefull ride, that fits perfectly to a dark suspensefull superhero!!!!!

A superior soundtrack
Those who remember the Danny Elfman epics from the the Tim Burton films may well be surprised at how different this score is. Where as Elfman used a much more uptempo score with flurries of brass, the Zimmer/Howard score is alternately high percussive or symphonic with strings. Hans Zimmer's score is driving and percussive, similar in style to his scores for Crimson Tide and Gladiator but a a very dark feel all of its own. His music picks out the isolation of both Batman and the Joker, the former with a heroic, determined feel and the latter with dread and fear.

Like all great scores it can almost tell the story through music in its own right; John Williams' great scores for Star Wars is the kind of tradition this music belongs to. One of the best film scores I have heard in a long time and highly recommended.

Minimalist Mayhem
Zimmer and Howard trump their awesome core for 'Batman Begins' with this Minimalsit epic. Dark, intense and deeply unsettling, the two composers seem to be channeling Philip Glass's psychotic twin with pounding rhythms and throbbing chords as they obsessively reiterate their simple musical motifs. The best score of the year so far, and probably Zimmer and Howard's greatest work.

Bleak, austere and insanely addictive - this is pure musical genius.