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Title
 Cross Fire - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
International Title
 Pyrokinesis

Music By: Ko Otani
Record Label: Nippon Columbia

Running Time: 50:00 Discs: 1
Release: June 2000 CD Number: COCP-30974
Comments
This score for the 2000 science fiction film Pyrokinesis is certainly an interesting album for those who enjoy composer Ko Otani's work. This score more or less bridges the gap between Otani's styles, as the soundtrack contains some cues that sound like they were taken directly out of his Gamera 3: Incomplete Struggle (1999) score, while others are synthesizer heavy like some of the composer's later work such as Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001). Overall, though, this is probably one of the composer's lesser efforts. The score's biggest hurdle is simply that the compositions just don't sound very "rich" as we have come to expect from the composer's Gamera soundtracks; of course this isn't particularly Otani's fault, as it sounds like he was given a very modest orchestra for this production. As a result, the score mostly seems to fall back on simpler and more subtle motifs, although there are a couple of odd balls thrown in such as the deliciously over the top "An Unpunished Crime" and the very video game-esque "A Mysterious Incident". This doesn't mean that the score is bad or anything, but it doesn't leave much to recommend about this soundtrack as a stand alone experience.
- Anthony Romero 
Tracks
  1. Title
  2. Ominous Premonition
  3. Fear
  4. Tragedy Begins
  5. Age of Madness
  6. An Unpunished Crime
  7. Grim Determination
  8. Forbidden Power
  9. Desperate Thinking
  10. A Tragic Power
  11. The Chosen People of Power
  12. The Iron Hammer of Justice
  13. Execution Out of Anger
  14. To the Plaza
  15. Immense Grief
  16. A Mysterious Incident
  17. Female Junko Aoki
  18. Fateful Meeting
  19. In the Snow
  20. Thoughts of Each Other
  21. Tragic Confusion
  22. A Huge and Dangerous Trap
  23. Cross Fire
  24. Goddess of the Century's End
  25. Judgement for a Brutal Crime
  26. Goodbye
  27. Eternal Flame
  28. Cross Fire - Epilogue
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