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Total Recall is Faboloso!!!

10/08/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1990 was a very good year and one of the reasons is because Jerry Goldsmith made a outstanding score for a great Arnold movie named Total Recall.The action was superb but it really would not of been as good if it was not for Goldsmith`s music in the film.Every single track here is awesome.The track numbers maybe low but there is enough music which the soundtrack is over fifty-minutes long.This score is one of the best I ever heard and it is one of Jerry Goldsmith`s best!"

Goes At Lightspeed, But Needs More Tenderness

Michael Daly | Wakefield, MA USA | 05/16/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Jerry Goldsmith's Total Recall soundtrack is a study in mixed blessings. On the one hand, the actual music is stirring. From the opening theme to the final fade, Goldsmith blasts away. His use of synthesized instruments and paces that are difficult to keep up with - on End Of A Dream he uses a 4/3 pace that's a devil to follow - is innovative and clever.But within the power lies the soundtrack's problem - most of the cues are action cues. Only The Mutant, First Meeting, and Where Am I downshift from nonstop action to slow tenderness. It is surprising considering the excellent balance Goldsmith showed on First Blood.Also, the soundtrack mysteriously excludes cues worthy of release - such as from the fight between Quaid and Lori, the telephone scene where Quaid learns he's been bugged, Quaid's capture by Lori and freeing by Melina, and the slaughter of Kuato's guerillas by Cohaagen's army.Nevertheless, the soundtrack is an aural rush of adrenaline."