Customer Ratings & Reviews

My daughter loved the movie and the soundtrack! One of her favorite Christmas gifts!

Great new artist but lacked the bravo the other two soundtracks had.

First-class musical score! All instrumental, except Jennifer Lawrence's "Hanging Tree". More of the great music that added so much to the movies.

Love the soundtrack for this film. Looking forward to spending hours listening to this.

I bought this fit my daughter so she could have the hanging tree song. Absolutely worth it!

This is a great score from the movie. Best Buy shipping was dependable as usual

This soundtrack is a very good companion to the movie.

The score for "Mockingjay Part 1" is another competent installment of this ongoing musical saga. I really enjoy the work of composer James Newton Howard, and he is crafting an effective score... one which continues certain themes from the previous films, while also introducing plenty of new music into the mix. If I had one minor quibble, it's this: sometimes the music is just too subtle for my taste (I have found this to be true of each of the Hunger Games scores). I wish the composer would go bigger at certain points - not to overshadow the drama on screen, but to compliment it in a more impactful way. I would say the 70 minutes of music we get is the best value yet for a Hunger Games album. The "Catching Fire" score had 5 more minutes of music, but the film was also about 20 min longer than Mockingjay Pt. 1. The highlight of the album is without a doubt "The Hanging Tree", which really is a fantastic song that is not only performed well but has relevance to the story. Each time I listen, I find myself liking it more and more. A lot of people thought it should have been included on the soundtrack album rather than on this score album, but I think it's right at home here - after all, the track is just as much dependent on the orchestration as it is the lyrics. Please visit FilmMusicFan.com for more soundtrack reviews.