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There was a time during which Hans Zimmer was action movies' score king and Mark Mancina was a very serious prince. It was before John Powell or Harry Gregson-Williams took flight on their own, and by then Nick Glennie Smith was already proving he wasn't worth the trouble (he would eventually stumble into videogame scoring).

Mancina scored Bad Boys, Twister, Speed, Money Train and Fair Game, before Trevor Rabin came full force from rock to soundtrack and took his job.

The score for Speed 2 was not as good as the original and then Mancina had artistic differences with Michael Bay for Bad Boys 2 and Bay replaced him with Rabin. Rabin had already worked for Bay in Armageddon, a assignment Bay wanted for Zimmer himself. Hans Zimmer got newcomer Trevor Rabin training with Harry Gregson-Williams in Enemy of the State and, if you believe, Zimmer trained Rabin with Mancina himself, in Con Air. I guess the toughest one won.

But listen to this track and tell me your take this early Mancina.