No doubt that the australian Graeme Revell is a composer of many resources. For him is the same to compose for a detestable film as Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1995), making use of his symphonic skills at the service of a great orchestra -in the case of Streetfighter (1994) he has the London Symphony Orchestra, nothing more-, as for films as Lulu On The Bridge (1998) or this Phoenix, who require a much modern aproximation, specially the later. The result of this close-up is a savage and unfearful mixture between Elliot Goldenthal's Heat (1995) with Thomas Newman's American Buffalo (1996): a psychodelic music with lots of percussion (pay attention to the battery), electric guitars and synthetizers, a companion of another one more classical in nature (strings, piano and soloist voice) in cues as Harry Wins A Bet or Never Cheat, that don't finish completely well. Maybe for this (just to try to be like Thomas Newman), the score for Phoenix is not at the standard of its author: a reprobable style collision in a failed mimical try who said quite a lot against Revell. D.R.C.

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