I am not much of an Elliot Goldenthal fan, but I do enjoy some of his scores--Heat, Michael Collins, Interview w/a Vampire, Frida, and Final Fantasy. But this score is horrifically overrated! The alien movies have never had really strong scores, but I think the first one (Jerry Goldsmith's) is probably the strongest of the four. The dark, portentous alien music that I had expected was merely noise, with no coherent themes at all. Needless to say, I was extremely disappointed. But all is not a total loss; the final track, "Adagio" is actually quite good. If all of the score had the thematic material and emotion that is in "Adagio", this CD would easily be 4 or 5 stars. But, alas, the rest of the CD is noise. So you must decide whether four minutes of good orchestral music is worth however much you pay for this CD.