It’s no small irony that Howard Shore had previously accompanied Mel Gibson’s parental rampage in RANSOM, only to see his score replaced. But even if Shore’s now inadvertently put the kill on John Corigliano’s first stab at this revenge thriller, it’s hard to imagine more musical hurt being put on Mel’s malefactors. For whether it’s SEVEN’s serial killer or the hooligans of THE DEPARTED, few composers use such a bold wall of symphonic bleakness to conjure a world of lowlifes, and the ever-darkening nobility of heroes bent on justice at any cost. While EDGE doesn’t add anything particularly new to Shore’s mission, it’s still bold, emotional and jarringly confrontational in its sometimes shrieking action- the musical equivalent of a hard knock to the jaw with an angry, anguished symphonic fist.