"The Bourne Ultimatum" begins quietly and then very rapidly with "Six weeks ago" and rotates at "Tangiers" full on. The clearly best tracks on the CD, a spectacular Action Track, full of power and speed, great!
After this quiet and faster passages change from always. But most of all stand out again the dynamic and dramatic action title. Even the Bourne theme is heard again a few times, but not as pronounced as in the past soundtracks. We have the well-known action motif that the most powerful and menacing sounds here (Tangiers) and that's one of the strengths of this score!
Particular highlights include the ten-minute "Waterloo" (no, not the ABBA song!), In which all important elements of the soundtrack are summarized. Only the track starts very quiet but exciting and will over time more and faster and louder. Also "Jason Is Reborn" is an interesting final and is probably an allusion to a sequel ... What surprise, but in the end is effective is the fact that Powell as final song the same has, as its predecessor: "Extreme Ways" Moby. The version is changed slightly, but basically the same. Me did not disturb this because the song really fits perfectly into the atmosphere and "The Bourne Ultimatum" lets end very melancholic and interesting addition this version is compared to Supremacy again a lot better and more dynamic!
What would I have personally found very good, would be the incorporation of the "Extreme Ways" theme in the score. Here this would have determined to give some very good musical places, such as in "Casino Royale" by David Arnold, who integrated the theme song in the score.
From the atmosphere and the mood is "The Bourne Ultimatum" is based rather on the first score and remains zunehmenst on the atonal track, although it then but is something harmonious with some string passages. But he retains the great dynamism and the bombast of "The Bourne Supremacy".
Conclusion: "The Bourne Ultimatum" is approximately at the same level as "The Bourne Supremacy", yet again presents a great development of music is, if you consider that the first soundtrack consisted almost exclusively of synthesizer sounds and is here now mostly a big orchestra listen.
For those who prefer to topics rich soundtracks, which is able to do much with the scores of the Bourne series. But not only fans of the movies will have fun at the exciting film music, because Powell's works can also be enjoyed without images. The Bourne Soundtracks are just great thriller scores, although the known Media Ventures-style, but still great. I'm curious to see how James Newton Howard dubbed the fourth part ...
