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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
What's the point? Having bought this CD on the basis of some of the previous postings I am sadly disappointed. The first 12 tracks sound almost the same, vaguely Eastern musak, fairly pleasant but of no merit. The final track (Extreme Ways) is really good - but does not excuse the rest of the CD.
Bim Bam Smash I just want to point something out to the reviewer that says the music for the tunnel car chase is missing...it's there. The track is called Bim Bam Smash and the part where the emotional strings kick in (played during the bit where Bourne and Krill are smashing into one another in the tunnel) occurs at about 3 minutes 55 seconds into the track.
Gripping A miracle of a score. Everything about this music just WORKS and gets through to the listener: just listening to this music tells you the whole story, it is even unnecesary to watch the movie. The album does not have a single/main unifying theme. Instead, it has three or four themes that appear in a number of places throughout the album and the movie. The first one is a thoughtful suspenseful theme which appears in the tracks "Moscow Wind Up" and "Nach Deutschland". A beatiful piece of music, this... more info
The Bourne Sound With An Eastern Kick I was worried about buying this at first, as I presumed it would be a jazzed up (and not very good) revisit of The Bourne Identity's OST; another concern was that the overall length was less than the previous one - but I need not have worried. There are plenty of new favourites here!
From the opening track of 'Goa' you realise that this soundtrack has plenty of new themes to offer. Of these there are moments when some of the more familiar themes of the first soundtrack - Jason's Theme, Treadstone... more info