Great movie, horrible score

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2009)

When I saw this film on the day of its release I was in 7th heaven. Every beat, every cut, every line delivery was nearly perfect. Except James Horner's horrible score.
I kept hearing Gorki Park, The Wrath of Khan, Krull and dozens of his earlier works, sometimes repeated with little or no change.
Granted the man had very little time to step in and write this score and little money. But this is a tragic case of a great film that could have been greater still.
But James Cameron ! When will he return to fiction film? It is a tragedy that he never got "The Crowded Room" off the ground. He was supposed to direct the story of Billy Milligan, the man with 23 separate and distinct personalities. At the time of Aliens and Terminator 2 people thought of him as only a special effects director. Only! But one has only to look at the ensemble acting in this film or think of Sarah Connor's breakdown scenes in the asylum to know how much Cameron loves actors.
Come on back James boy! We need you, if only to knock hacks like Michael Bay out of the arena.