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The Net: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The soundtrack is great. Although it does not contain all the music from the movie, it is still worth buying for the opening theme (act I).

If this CD were anything except a movie soundtrack, it might be called "Timecop Lite" since Mark Isham, who wrote this score in 1995, wrote "Timecop" the previous year. If you're listening to "The Net" for the first time and you're an experienced film music explorer, you might get the sense that Isham is falling into the James Horner ("Braveheart", "Titanic", et. al.) pitfall of "quoting" older scores into new ones. (The pounding "Timecop" drums feature prominently here.) But that isn't the case. The action scenes and musical cues in "The Net" are not as heavy as those of "Timecop".

The Net disc is not the entire score as heard in the film; rather, it is a four track series of short suites, labeled Acts I-IV. A breakdown would look something like this (descriptions mine):

Act I: Main Titles/Secretary Shooting

Act II: Angela meets Jack in Mexico/Informant Shooting/Romantic Cruise/"I'm Captain America Meets Albert Schweitzer"/Angela's escape from the boat

Act III: Angela's imprisonment

Act IV: Final confrontations

As with the last two CD's I've reviewed, "The Net" is only 30 minutes long and is missing a lot of music (such as everything after Angela's escape from Mexico and before her imprisonment), but if you like "The Net" as a movie it shouldn't be a problem. It's still worth your while to get it.

The music for the film The Net by Mark Isham is fantastic! It is wonderful! Great job Mr. Isham!! I love both the movie and the soundtrack! The music itself gets 5 out of 5 stars as does the movie, however much of the music from the film was left out of this product which is why I give it 4 out of 5. This soundtrack feels kind of short and has basically the main highlights from each part of the film. I wish they would re-release this soundtrack, but with all of the music from the film instead of just some.

Let me emphasize how wonderful the music is however! Definitely worth every penny! I am just a really big "The Net" fan and wish I owned every cue of the music (with the score ideally).