Preceded by some controversy due to the hasty withdrawl of the score which Alan Silvestri had been composed, and which the producers label as "too conventional", and inevitably submitted to the obligation of embody the famous theme for the TV series which the argentinian Lalo Schifrin composed, it seems that the Danny Elfman score has provoked certain disappointment between his inconditionals. Definitively distant to the world of Tim Burton, and far away from his first and most well-known style, Elfman's music, as his composer status has grown on the film industry, has become more complex and original. An excellent specimen of this could be this score for the spectacular Brian de Palma film: music full of edges and dissonances, athematic but oddly compact, nothing indebted, thankfully, to the jazz-sixties-sound of the wonderful Schifrin's music, here presented unadorned and arranged on a powerful symphonic way. M.A.F.

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