The main action and adventure music misses that driving energetic tempo I loved so much in The Mummy, but contains the typical stylish note that we can find back in many Goldsmith scores today. Short but impressive when it rises above everything else. This opening piece receives a rather impressive feeling when the dark choir supports it lightly, while the choir itself gets its finest moment during "Semantics". It gets its best treatment during the begin track "Old Bagdad". The main theme isn't the biggest winner in the Goldsmith book but acceptable and still the missing piece that binds the entire concept together. Still, this score doesn't destroy the ultimate end result and the fans will gladly accept the available material coming their way. Meaning the good adventurous feel is here, but he already tried it somewhere before, at least it feels that way. Because upon hearing this score, it is simply such an effort that bares all the trademarks of a typical Goldsmith composition. It shows something different than we have gotten used to. If I need to chose one however, it has to be The Mummy. Honestly, you can do no harm with The 13th Warrior because it listens like pure Jerry Goldsmith. Because both scores deliver the same feeling, exemplifying the western adventurous mood of both movies. This could have been more or less the phrase for the summer of 1999. Adventure Goldsmith returns in 1999 with high anticipation, delivering the energetic The Mummy and the stylish The 13th Warrior to let fans know that he is still at the top of his game.
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