Well, this is certainly a lot better than I remember it. I used to own it you see, then I sold it and then bought it back as I missed the good bits. Weird, but what can I say? The aforementioned good bits consist primarily of the main theme which comes to the fore in Roll Tide. Unlike some of his more recent efforts, Zimmer's theme is very tuneful and more interesting and stays away from the rather motif-based themes of things such as the The Rock for example. Also included is the hymn Eternal Father Strong to Save, which is very effective and blends quite well with the score. I suspect its inclusion was "inspired" by the Hymn to Red October from Poledouris' submarine score for The Hunt for Red October (although that hymn was original for the score, Eternal Father Strong to Save is a standard hymn). It is sung by a male voice choir which at point gets used by Zimmer to provide some low rumblings or to back up the brass and synths when the tune comes along. This is one of those scores that is hard to rate, on the one hand, the music is wonderfully effective at setting the tone for the film and the main themes are excellent, the action is likewise excellent. The thing is that there are portions of the score that seem to just drag on with low synths. Two of the tracks being close to 20 minutes doesn't help much, there are just about enough moments in those to hold the interest, but I usually tend to give up if not doing anything else while listening. Tracks 1, 3 and 5 make up the best of the score as they are more succinct and there is little or no extraneous rumblings included. I don't really know which Zimmer score to recommend to people, all his action scores are quite samey so you will either love or loath all of them if you love or loath one. This is not as cacophonous as many of his other efforts and certainly stands with Backdraft as being one of his finer efforts.
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Total Time ~ 60:26