Amazon.co.uk Review
There's no mistaking a Media Ventures studio score for a Jerry Bruckheimer production: it's like walking in on a thrash synth and guitar rehearsal in a steel mill. Think
The Rock,
Armageddon or
Con Air and you've got the picture. Media Ventures head Hans Zimmer used to be the voice behind such projects, but Trevor Rabin is taking them on with increasing frequency. All of which preamble is not to deny that there's an individual voice shining through here. Rabin's background as a guitarist (with prog-rockers Yes) ensures that the passages where the electric guitar kicks in are always the most memorable. His prog-rock notions of rhythm take synth pads and effects in new directions. Here there's every excuse to be as fast or showy with electronics as he wants--the movie's about out-of-control technology after all--but despite the frenzied camerawork for the countless chases, Rabin somewhere manages to define Will Smith as a family man with a descending three-note motif. If you want to kill your speakers completely, try
Face/Off (more from the Media Ventures stable) too. --
Paul Tonks