Jeff Bond's liner notes point out that Jerry Goldsmith's "skill at fashioning highly propulsive and rhythmically inventive action music" made him the perfect choice to score this Charles Bronson starring hybrid of western and spy thriller set aboard a speeding train.
Goldsmith's "disjunctive main theme for brass backed up by synthesizer" is "book-ended by a bold fanfare for horns that acts as both a building block of much of the score's rhythmic material and a musical stand-in for the train's whistle and engine roar."
I don't know if I would go as far as Bond does, when he declares that the main theme is "one of the most exciting and satisfying in the composer's career." But I am comfortable stating that this soundtrack offers a robust and entertaining listen. Another solid and satisfying offering from the composer of so many of my all-time favorite film scores.
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