What's worse than the storyline... it's the music!!

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2004)

Movies take a step to being a living entity with the music that is accompanying the play. If it's action, dramatic accords with a driving rhythm try to accelerate your heartbeat, if it is a love scene... (insert violins here...) and so on.
Since this is a movie, that never really lets go of the action, the music seldom takes down a step from the dramatic rhythmic accords, but even when the scene suggests a breather... an example.
The heroes ride across the country (insert sweeping helicopter shots like LOTR 1 - Fellowship here), lots of action (insert sarcasm here...), driving score... the heroes enter the Transylvanian village ("DOOM! DOOM!..." "DOOM! DOOM!..." "DOOM! DOOM!...") and get off their horses. (one more doom doom and I would have left the movie... in hindsight sitting through it was a mistake).
I am normally a sucker for soundtracks and I own many of them, even though the movie itself is so-so ("Crimson Tide", "Waterworld" as examples for great scores accompanying mediocre flicks), but this score only detracts from the experience.