The One

By the start of the decade, Trevor Rabin had gradually made a name for himself. Projects like Armaggedon, Deep Blue Sea, and Con Air had proved that the composer could handle action just as well as Hans Zimmer or his villainous composing lackeys. Moreso, it showed that Trevor Rabin was one of the number one choices to handle a project as dumb as The One. There's really no point in even discussing the film.

While Rabin has handled somewhat silly projects before, he usually managed to bring an interesting mix of strong themes and generic electronic action music. The One, however, lacks the former. Sure, there is tons of crazy rock/synth that pounds throughout the score, but where are the strong themes that Rabin has surprisingly managed to handle on all of his past projects? The score for The One is just a large amount of the aformentioned synth/hard rock that seems to be held together only by long moments of dissonance. Even Deep Blue Sea, a horror film about intelligent sharks, managed to at least keep a steady pace. After the first few tracks, the music gets really old, fast.

As far as Rabin's action scores go, The One is one of his worst. The electronic synth rock is just ugly and the dissonance is grating. Rabin is adept at writing smart material for dumb films, so one has to wonder what went wrong here. Overall a pretty bad score and release.