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I'm not sure if John Williams has ever composed a bad film score, but I think this is one of his more underappreciated ones. I keep hoping one of the boutique soundtrack labels would put out an official expanded score release some day.

It's been a while since I last saw it, but I remember liking it. As usual with Branagh's films, it's relentlessly theatrical and often over-the-top, but that suits his Shakespeare adaptations pretty well. The built-in Intermission is a good place for a break, though.

It's the last track on the official soundtrack album, simply called "Born on the Fourth of July." There's an *unmentionable* album floating around out there with a slightly different arrangement of the end credit suite. To make it even more confusing, this is the official album track paired with...

The strings piece is Born on the 4th of July, but is the pounding drum at very beginning from that, too? Sounds a little like a library cue. Incidentally, that's Peter "Optimus Prime" Cullen narrating. :)