From Planet of the Apes to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Jerry Goldsmith has written some of his finest soundtracks for science fiction movies, while his scores for director Paul Verhoven's Total Recall and Basic Instinct have become musical landmarks. Hollow Man is their third collaboration, the main theme being an elegantly icy, sinuous melody carried over ...
As soon as John J Rambo has been rescued from prison, briefed and suited up, Elliot Goldsmith's score rarely lets up its enthusiastic charge. There's lots of spying and creeping through jungle vines, where various unique electronic effects rattle and hiss to suggest his snakelike stealth. For the majority of the running time however, a battery of percussion serves to propel the man-mountain ...