Shrink-wrapped Following the smash worldwide success of 2002's 'The Bourne Identity', Universal Pictures brings the second installment of best-selling author Robert Ludlum's series to the screen with Matt Damon returning as trained assassin Jason Bourne in 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Composer John Powell, returns to the land of Ludlum for this thrilling sequel. Powell scored yet another hit with 'The Italian Job'. Both 'The Bourne Identity' & 'The Italian Job' spawned best-selling soundtrack albums. Prominently featured in the film & also included on this CD will be a new song called 'Landing' performed by Moby. Novelist Robert Ludlum's amnesia-plagued, tough-as-nails spy/assassin Jason Bourne again proves that success begats sequels, be they literary or cinematic. As he did for the saga's initial big screen installment, composer John Powell concocts an electro-orchestral fusion score that seasons its tense, bristling rhythms with dollops of melodicism, synth-atmospherics and staccato string figures. Those welcome touches hearken back to composer's similar work on the '03 action-thriller The Italian Job, with Powell initially evoking the film's exotic locales by employing a savory synth pop-meets-Eastern European palate. The tension-building rhythms and percussion flourishes familiar from Powell's other action-centric scores are the score's musical pulse -- even if they eventually upset the finely honed balancing act by boiling over into the familiar explosive cliches of all too many thriller scores. --Jerry McCulley
