The Bourne Ultimatum
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Free Music Notes for The Bourne Ultimatum
Free Music Review: Excellent Soundtrack for an Excellent Movie!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
The movie was awesome...the soundtrack is awesome...makes you think how creative people must be to come up with this masterpiece of a movie. John Powell is really good at creating soundtracks. I can't even begin to think how he can come up with all these awesome different tracks.
Also, did anyone notice that Powell used a bit from his X3- The Last Stand movie soundtrack "Phoenix Rises" and "Dark Phoenix's Tragedy." You can hear it in the movie, X3, when the Professor says to Jean "Jean...let me in," at the battle in Jean's house. In Ultimatum, it's at the end of the movie when Bourne is running on the roof trying to escape from the facility and is being chased by the other Treadstone agent. This piece actually fits really well.
Free Music Review: Decent
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD has the edge-of-your-seat music so fitting of the movie. I only looked into this soundtrack for the last song, Extreme Ways by Moby, which is a very catchy tune. The rest of it is good, but I personally don't enjoy listening to action-movie music without the action movie part of it. Certain soundtracks, like that of Requiem for a Dream or Braveheart, are beautiful and enjoyable to listen to on their own. This isn't my cup of tea, but it is definitely well-written music.. especially the Moby jam. ;)Free Music Review: Some good, some eh
Hit: 4 Stars
I agree with William Smith on nearly every point of his review re this soundtrack. My only counter is that the redux of Extreme Ways is excellent during the first half of the song, capturing the mood of the scene of the movie perfectly (in fact, if you listen carefully, you can hear the Bourne theme blended perfectly into the intro)...lending itself to imply that there is a new history of Bourne to follow. The downside of this newer version is the female backup singer(s) in the song. Once she/they start/starts "singing/screaming/whatever you call it", she/they ruin/ruins the rest of Moby's masterpiece.
I say, Moby, please "redux the redux" once again! Extreme Ways is a classic and we love what you have done to update it but PLEASE, lose whomever sang backup.
Overall, I like the soundtrack. I certainly loved the movie and music's timing/emotion in each scene. My recommendation? Buy the soundtrack...it is good.
Free Music Review: Fitting Conclusion
Hit: 4 Stars
For the final Bourne installment, Powell naturally went with the basics of Bourne music, but manages here to flesh them out, giving his themes more room to breathe, and even a little more underlying orchestration. The CD plays out like a memo to Powell from Hans Zimmer, suggesting a few "epic" notes and additions to themes from time to time. This score doesn't have the tense "togetherness" of the previous scores, and certainly isn't as enjoyable as Supremacy (which is still the best of the three). The music has a tendency to blend a little into the background, but it's still a great soundtrack.
A couple of tracks that stand out are "Man vs. Man" and "Tangiers". "Waterloo" is good, but a bit long and incoherent.
Two things stand out however with regards to criticism of the CD: 1) the tracks are all out of order, and 2) at least a good third of Ultimatum uses score pieces from the previous two Bourne films (notably "The Apartment" from Identity and "Bim Bam Smash" from Supremacy, easily inserted in the appropriate places, once you figure out the order.) I'm also not crazy about the "Extreme Ways" redux, but that's just my opinion. I like the original mix a little better.
Free Music Review: Great movie....same soundtrack...
Hit: 3 Stars
Not quite what we were hoping for in terms of the final installment for the soundtrack series. While the soundtrack maintains its proximity to the film, Powell could have gotten a bit more creative on the music selection (even a little additional tweaking). It's great to have familiarity with the original sets, but at some point, the music has to compliment the brilliant cinematography. For the fourth movie, maybe we'll see Powell craft us new chase music and brilliant originals like "To the roof" from the second Bourne film.