Widows Review: 6 Ups & 3 Downs
2. Hans Zimmer's Surprisingly Dull Score
If you watch this movie unaware that it was scored by Hans Zimmer, you'd probably assume it was scored by someone trying to produce a Zimmer knock-off.
Despite the obvious prestige appeal of a project like this, Zimmer's score is oddly low-effort when it's not low-key.
This is especially true during the movie's set-pieces, which are typically backed up a repetitive ticking sound which feels like a half-hearted knock-off of his own, far superior Dunkirk score.
Heard without any preconceptions about the identity of the composer, it genuinely sounds like someone making their best attempt to copy the style of someone like Zimmer or Cliff Martinez, but falling rather short of the mark.
Thankfully the score is employed fairly minimally and unobtrusively throughout, though a movie this epic and sprawling clearly deserved a soundscape more convincing.