Film Reviews

Rush Soundtrack Review

• 26th Sep 2013

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Hans Zimmer is back yet again for another high profile piece of work – this time for Ron Howard’s formula one drama, Rush.

As per Zimmer, there is a mix of electronic and orchestral work, with a strong preference towards some very heavy percussion at key moments surrounded by jabbing string work.

So what’s new? Well there is the occasional drift into electric guitar to emphasise tone of era, as well as a few sourced songs as well like Dave Edmunds “I Hear You knocking” and Steven Winwood’s “Gimme Some Lovin” and Thin Lizzy’s “The Rocker.”

There are some strong threads within Zimmer’s score that will compliment the onscreen visuals. Zimmer though is perhaps overworked as a composer, despite who he has working on his team – and often there can be a lot of overlap in his signature work.  Here perhaps the obvious example is how the track “Nurburgring” has distinct echoes of his Dark Knight work.

But there are also distinct parallels to much of his Bruckheimer work. The remedy is perhaps to slow down, pick less projects and then have the time to be more inventive – instead of just racking up the credits for soundtracks that are good, but never quite as great as they could be.

The upside is that this is likely to only be much of a bug for people who collect his work. The buyer interested specifically in this work alone won’t have any such problem – as much of the above mentioned work is usually of a high quality. And unlike his Man Of Steel soundtrack earlier this year, Rush has the quality spread over the entire soundtrack, instead of having a few key tracks that stand out. If he is likely to get nominations for any of his work this year then this is the likely candidate.

Steven Hurst

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