For variety alone, Graeme Revell"s score for F. Gary Gray"s high-tech action movie about hostages and bad justice deserves some attention. Revell is, after all, a pioneer of industrial music and has provided soundtracks to movies like The Crow; so it comes as no surprise to hear this olio of somber orchestra textures, angry machinery, apocalyptic choruses, and less desirable moments of synthesized rhythm and noise. This is a musical exercise in urban black magic that mixes the exotic with the staid. Without seeing the film, one gets the sense of an adventure full of ill will, self-doubt, predictable chases, and even a warped touch of romantic mystery as the eerie and fashionable specter of Celtic melody makes a brief cameo. --Joseph Lanza