There's something about the way his scores are orchestrated and even recorded that sets them apart from anything else and virtually everything he writes is well and truly unmistakably from his hand.
Men of Honour is the latest superb score to come from the composer.
Isham's score is likely to prove to be one of his most popular, going very much down a similar route to James Horner's Apollo 13 . The work as a whole is a piece of gorgeous Americana, a wonderfully stirring and noble score. Quiz Show and Romeo is Bleeding . The highlights of the album, though, come right at the end - the final two pieces are among the very best heard in a 2000 film. Men of Honour is a stirring score that never goes even vaguely overblown or saccharine - a rare achievement.