The Last of the Mohicans 2. Crimson Tide 3. Some of Jones' best material has been written for television films. Last year he composed a good, but unreleased score for a film about the Loch Ness monster. Now, for NBC, Jones has given us one of the best scores of his career.
Merlin is mystical, thematically rich, and orchestrally huge in parts.
The main theme is as sweeping as the one he created for Last of the Mohicans . It makes several key appearances in the film as well, establishing a continuity between the two parts. Some of these action cues rival Willow and CutThroat Island in liveliness and pure energy. Every few tracks, Jones reminds us of the magical, heroic period of the setting by allowing some truly medieval music to come forward. Hints of themes from Excalibur are used.