Dunkirk Review: 8 Ups & 2 Downs

7. Hans Zimmer's Relentless Score

Hans Zimmer re-teams with Christopher Nolan once again to provide Dunkirk's score, which is destined to be remembered for its pulsing, ticking clock.

Though the entire movie isn't set to a metronome as some earlier reports suggested, the ticking sound is present in some form or another for large chunks of the film, and Zimmer does a fantastic job milking its anxiety-inducing effect.

Overall it's probably not one of Zimmer's best scores for Nolan or otherwise, and absolutely not one of his most memorable, but it is viscerally effective in a way that some of those are not, and steers away from the cloying sentimentality that characterises the musical scores of many war movies.