The Big Picture offers a wide range of first-class orchestra score pieces, of which more than half are so catchy and characteristic that they are safe once again recognizes, even if you have the film years ago last seen. The biggest highlight of this CD is the offered variety, although some film is represented by several pieces. So follow the distinctive, rhythmic Mission Impossible Theme Danny Elfman's dreamy dark motives from Batman before four - only by the pounding orchestral balancing piece broken from Speed - Pathos hymns from Apollo 13, Crimson Tide (Hans Zimmer), Independence Day and the unforgettable Braveheart heroic and yet soulful melodic mood spread. The second half of the CD falls as measured by the hitherto heard but significantly. While the selected pieces are still worth listening to, but almost entirely either pale or clichéd in their noisy pathos than the previous ones. Only the both rhythmically as melodically brilliant, rousing theme from "The Last of the Mohicans" here holds the level of the first half. That and a well-intentioned but deplaziertes gimmick cost The Big Picture finally the 5th star: as a reconciliation between the individual films Soundsamples were interspersed from those. Unfortunately, these turn out rather than stumbling blocks because almost continuously excellent compilation and thoughtful sequence of pieces already itself includes an almost seamless transition of the pieces, which is thereby again chopped artificially. A complete playthrough of the CD as a homogeneous and yet gently between moods reveling soundscape is possible only after programming the CD player. Unnecessary and annoying.