Certainly one of the best recent Goldsmith scores, along with Star Trek: First Contact this stands up as being a fine example of his rhythmic and exciting action style. Starting with The Parachutes, which for about the first half is the opening titles music. The main theme is like a combination of a few other themes, including the First Contact theme, although this is a little more patriotic on the whole. The action occurs most notably in The Hijacking which is a relentless and driving cue which never lets up once it gets into full swing. There are some more tender moments which cover the scenes involving the First Family, which are a little on the soppy side for my liking and certainly not helped in the film by the rather cheesy dialogue and so on, although it is bearable on disc. Joel McNeely did write some of the music, although from what I gather none of it ended up on the CD, which is a shame. However, while watching the film I really didn't hear any moments which made me think that they were McNeely. That actually impressed me as I wouldn't have thought of McNeely's style being very compatible with Goldsmith's. Overall this is a definite thumbs up although I wish it were longer (a typical problem with Goldsmith scores it seems), the Russian-style choral bits near the end of the film for example and it would have been nice to have a bit of McNeely in the same way there was some Joel Goldsmith on First Contact.
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Total Time ~ 35:40