candidate: " Jonathan Broxton of Movie Music UK stated that " In many ways , " The Dark Knight Rises " showcases the best and the worst of Hans Zimmer 's musical personality in one all - encompassing score " , " on the one hand , the intellectual design and intelligent use of Bane ’s Chant shows Zimmer at his creative best , taking a simple idea and working it around to suggest complex concepts and subtle changes in context " , and that " On the other hand , you have the same old arguments : the Zimmer sound permeating the Hollywood mainstream to such a degree that composers as talented as Alan Silvestri and Patrick Doyle are being asked to ape the style ; the fact that Zimmer himself seems to be stuck in a rut , writing what in effect are little more than variations of the same score on almost every action film he tackles ; the over-reliance on electronic enhancements , ghostwriters , arrangers , and so on and so on .