![]() ![]() ![]() I wouldn’t want all action movies to be scored like this again, but it is nice to go on a trip back like this one and it’s a satisfying if ultimately disposable modern take on a sound from a quarter of a century ago.į/moviewave | /MovieWaveDotNet | At 40 minutes the album is just the perfect length for this type of music. The softer moments – and there are a few – are also handled well, though to be honest you just want the action to come back. We even get the once-ubiquitous choir for when things really need to sound epic. The action’s done with aplomb, a satisfying mixture of the 90s sound and more of a Dark Knight-era Hans Zimmer. After that, it’s mostly action, and the action is mostly based around that theme – sometimes it’s heard in full, other times the composer takes fragments out of it and turns them into something else. Balfe gives it a full-on airing in the titular opening cue, and it’s a really punchy, dynamic arrangement. It’s a typical Media Ventures power anthem of the period, its distinguishing feature at the time being the Latin sound which went around it. Fear not – he doesn’t just bring it back, virtually the whole score is based on it in some way or other. Mark Mancina has long since flown the nest and so Lorne Balfe takes the musical reins for the third instalment, with much excitement from people who were kids in 1995 over whether he would bring back Mancina’s theme. Well, here it is, back (but probably not for life). Because I’m annoying, back in the 1990s when all the kids used to say Media Ventures power anthem scores were the greatest thing since sliced bread, I didn’t like them but as that sound has morphed over time into the generally joyless modern Remote Control action sound which the kids now say is the greatest thing since sliced bread (find a kid and ask him or her – I guarantee this is the case), I started to rather miss it. Oh well, maybe Mr Bruckheimer will contact me for clearly-needed advice next time he needs to name a film. I usually start these things with a little comment about the film, but to be honest the only thing I keep thinking about Bad Boys For Life is that I can’t believe they didn’t save the title for the next instalment, which they could have called Bad Boys Four Life. ![]()
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