National Treasure
Trevor Rabin
" Trevor Rabin's treasure pack for the summer "Written by Thomas Glorieux - Review of the regular release
Despite costing a whopping 100 million dollars, National Treasure didn't have any trouble whatsoever to regain and duplicate its winnings. You see National Treasure had a lot going for it. A director who understood adventure, a fan favourite actor (Nicholas Cage) who always delivers his charms, a pair of new recruits that were instantly beloved by the crowd (Kruger and Bartha) and the chance to explore adventure like Indiana Jones in today's setting. The fact it was too long for its own good didn't stop the fans from enjoying it, coming in contact with a decent Trevor Rabin score in the outcome.
After having worked with the various cream of the crop on his movies, director Jon Turtletaub finally found his composer in the likes of Trevor Rabin. And the result is National Treasure, a decent Trevor Rabin score that's saturated in his known and unknown style. Because the opening cue "National Treasure Suite" has his known tricks (including the loud Bad Company beats) mixed with an interesting Thomas Newman piano move. And it's this piano move that shows us again a different voice of Trevor Rabin.
The piano returns in "Library of Congress" and the beat heavy "Preparation Montage", before it leads us towards the better action piece "The Chase" and the average one "Foot Chase". The first action piece still brings us an inspiring piano opening and a much more enjoyable rocking beat, something the second one delivers a bit harsher and darker I'm afraid. "Interrogation" returns with the action style of "The Chase", showing some better sings of Rabin's action voice.
The rise from young to mature "Ben" shows us the rise of Rabin's main theme, being a typical if again fetching theme coming from the Rabin cannon. Here Rabin also introduces us as well to the first use of choir, highlighting the discovery of Charlotte with some sense of epic pride in "Finding Charlotte". That theme gets a sense of nobility as well during "Declaration of Independence" (showing that Ben was right all along). But his triumph truly comes during "Treasure", showing Ben's own theme for the last time, highlighted by a magical assisting choir.
National Treasure is Trevor Rabin in a nutshell (the rather inspiring piano music not included), and I'll assume his fans will get a kick out of it more than the mainstream fans. The score isn't always top notch, and at times harder to appreciate on album. But it sure does gets the job done during the movie, and then as usual some moments do brighten up the specific scene. There's some 10 minutes in here that can always entertain me, and I'm sure it's those 10 minutes that gives me an overall satisfaction over the entire score.
Tracklisting
1. National Treasure Suite (3.17)
2. Ben (4.03)
3. Finding Charlotte (1.05)
4. Library of Congress (2.27)
5. Preparation Montage (4.53)
6. Arrival at National Archives (1.55)
7. The Chase (4.22)
8. Declaration of Independence (1.43)
9. Foot Chase (3.34)
10. Spectacle Discovery (3.18)
11. Interrogation (4.30)
12. Treasure (3.38)
Total Length: 38.54
After having worked with the various cream of the crop on his movies, director Jon Turtletaub finally found his composer in the likes of Trevor Rabin. And the result is National Treasure, a decent Trevor Rabin score that's saturated in his known and unknown style. Because the opening cue "National Treasure Suite" has his known tricks (including the loud Bad Company beats) mixed with an interesting Thomas Newman piano move. And it's this piano move that shows us again a different voice of Trevor Rabin.
The piano returns in "Library of Congress" and the beat heavy "Preparation Montage", before it leads us towards the better action piece "The Chase" and the average one "Foot Chase". The first action piece still brings us an inspiring piano opening and a much more enjoyable rocking beat, something the second one delivers a bit harsher and darker I'm afraid. "Interrogation" returns with the action style of "The Chase", showing some better sings of Rabin's action voice.
The rise from young to mature "Ben" shows us the rise of Rabin's main theme, being a typical if again fetching theme coming from the Rabin cannon. Here Rabin also introduces us as well to the first use of choir, highlighting the discovery of Charlotte with some sense of epic pride in "Finding Charlotte". That theme gets a sense of nobility as well during "Declaration of Independence" (showing that Ben was right all along). But his triumph truly comes during "Treasure", showing Ben's own theme for the last time, highlighted by a magical assisting choir.
National Treasure is Trevor Rabin in a nutshell (the rather inspiring piano music not included), and I'll assume his fans will get a kick out of it more than the mainstream fans. The score isn't always top notch, and at times harder to appreciate on album. But it sure does gets the job done during the movie, and then as usual some moments do brighten up the specific scene. There's some 10 minutes in here that can always entertain me, and I'm sure it's those 10 minutes that gives me an overall satisfaction over the entire score.
Tracklisting
1. National Treasure Suite (3.17)
2. Ben (4.03)
3. Finding Charlotte (1.05)
4. Library of Congress (2.27)
5. Preparation Montage (4.53)
6. Arrival at National Archives (1.55)
7. The Chase (4.22)
8. Declaration of Independence (1.43)
9. Foot Chase (3.34)
10. Spectacle Discovery (3.18)
11. Interrogation (4.30)
12. Treasure (3.38)
Total Length: 38.54