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| Album: | The Bourne Supremacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
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| Artist: | John Powell |
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| Label: | Varese Sarabande |
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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…
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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
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The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum
In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne.
The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions:
Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There
is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity—and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills—because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.
The Bourne Supremacy
Paul Greengrass
Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential,
The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where
The Bourne Identity left off, the action begins when CIA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving CIA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning…
