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
If you have bought the soundtrack and have discovered that the song from the Moscow Club scence where the russian assasian is sitting with the ladies, Fear not! It's called "Intothinair" by Mocean Worker and can be found on his album, "Aural & Hearty".
This film score compliments the movie as much as any orchestral piece would compliment a ballet. But there's more to John Powell's upbeat and unconventional film score than just that (though that alone does place it above the average film score).If one were to listen to this music, not knowing anything about the film, one would hear the music of a heart-pounding action movie, an emotionally-charged drama, and an edge-of-your seat suspense thriller. What I like best is when Powell takes two or three of tho..
For fans of the last film's soundtrack, of whom I am one: this one is similar, perhaps too similar. There are no surprises here. If you are new to John Powell's music for the "Bourne" films, you will enjoy this album, but those who already have the older one can safely skip this one: it is as if the older film's music has been retaped with some little extras (guitar, percussion) tossed in. It IS nice that the Moby track is included on this disk.
