![]() The music has been a series of motifs more than full themes and they reoccur only occasionally in the album. There's nothing in this final film thematically that wasn't introduce the first movie. Now that the series is done (for the present), what is peculiarl about the Bourne trilogy as a whole is how inherently small it is. It's been five years since composer John Powell hit us with the first Bourne movie score and it has become one of the first representative scores of his solo career. There's also that, what do you call it, echoing owl call? It just suits the lean thriller aesthetic of the series. ![]() The action highlight of the album ("Tangiers") gives us a great use of drum and bass, ethnic instrument ornamentation with an aggressive string section melody. Everything that I don't like about their trademark style (the drum machine percussion, having a full orchestra play the same melody thus making it sound smaller) works exactly in this series favor. But all kidding aside, I feel that Powell expresses the best of what the company's style has to offer. I make jokes about Media Ventures like some people do redneck or Polish jokes. ![]() Like the movie, the album for The Bourne Ultimatum jumps straight into the meat of thingsā¦ Action!! John Powell excels at propulsive action cues and from the very beginning ("Six Weeks Ago") we get driving suspenseful chase music.
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