Danny Elfman's last compositions has felt the effect of a disordered rhythmic excess, maybe caused by the complex and intricate sonic force that Elfman applied to the excellent Mission: Impossible (1996) that, without a doubt, it has marked their later works; this is symptomatic in the recent Good Will Hunting (1997), a score that suffers of the thematic and structural coherence of the Elfman of Edward Scissorhands (1990) or of Dolores Claiborne (1994). Perhaps the facet of producer of bands like "No Doubt" has conditioned the approach from Elfman to their last compositions, lacked of inspiration and of novel solutions and without a solid thematic base. A Civil Action is a residual score, rottenly assembled and made (the contrast among the theme for the "children" -Why?- and the rest of the material is, at least, provoking) but strongly leaning in its author's style, which derives in a rhythmic music, seemingly festive and of scarce dramatic pretenses. D.R.C.

/ HOLLYWOOD RECORDS HR62158 / 47 '

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