Composer
David Arnold (
Independence Day,
The World Is Not Enough) brings exactly what one would expect to the table for director
Roland Emmerich's teleportation-based science fiction tale. By utilizing familiar space motifs in the vein of
John Williams and integrating electronics and bits and pieces of Middle Eastern folk music into the Egyptian-themed tale,
Arnold dutifully takes the "space opera" to some new vistas, but the overall effect is as familiar as a gun that shoots laser beams instead of bullets. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide