The Bourne Legacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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Released | August 7, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
Studio | Abbey Road Studios, London | |||
Genre | Film score | |||
Length | 63:34 | |||
Label | Back Lot Music | |||
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The Bourne Legacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2012 film The Bourne Legacy, which is the fourth installment in the series of films adapted from the Jason Bourne novels by Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader. The musical score is composed by James Newton Howard, becoming the first film in the series not to be composed by John Powell, who provided music for previous Bourne installments, due to his interest in scoring animated films. [1] The album was digitally released through Back Lot Music on August 7, 2012, [2] and a physical release by Varèse Sarabande on August 21, 2012. [3] The album featured a new version of Moby's "Extreme Ways" [4] subtitled with "Bourne's Legacy" released as a single on July 31. [5] [6] The music received mixed critical response.
No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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1. | "Legacy" | 2:40 | |
2. | "Drone" | 4:15 | |
3. | "NRAG" | 0:59 | |
4. | "You Fell In Love" | 1:42 | |
5. | "Program Shutdown" | 3:00 | |
6. | "Over The Mountain" | 0:51 | |
7. | "High Powered Rifle" | 2:50 | |
8. | "They're All Dead" | 2:48 | |
9. | "Manila Lab" | 2:40 | |
10. | "Wolves / Sick Ric" | 2:19 | |
11. | "Doctor Of What?" | 4:28 | |
12. | "Aaron In Chicago" | 1:32 | |
13. | "Wolf Attack" | 2:57 | |
14. | "Chem Talk" | 1:35 | |
15. | "Flight 167" | 3:30 | |
16. | "Aaron Run!" | 1:08 | |
17. | "You Belong Here" | 1:17 | |
18. | "Cognitive Degrade" | 2:49 | |
19. | "17 Hour Head Start" | 3:51 | |
20. | "Viralled Out" | 0:58 | |
21. | "You're Doing Fine" | 1:18 | |
22. | "Simon Ross" | 1:37 | |
23. | "LARX Tarmac" | 1:45 | |
24. | "Magsaysay Suite" | 3:04 | |
25. | "Aftermath" | 2:49 | |
26. | "Extreme Ways (Bourne's Legacy)" | Moby | 4:51 |
Total length: | 63:33 |
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The soundtrack received mixed reviews, with Danny Graydon of Empire gave a mixed review saying "Howard efficiently maintains Bourne’s music, but doesn’t significantly progress it", [7] while Brad Kamminga of Film Score Reviews criticised it as "dull and unmemorable". [8] Edmund Meinerts of Tracksounds also wrote "For being basically competent and containing few outright unpleasant or unlistenable moments, The Bourne Legacy scrapes a five out of ten, but when one of the year’s dullest score albums comes from an action-packed thriller, you know something has gone wrong." [9] Filmtracks.com also gave a negative review, commenting "The score is competent in each of its parts, but it concentrates more on respecting its predecessors than taking the opportunity to explore potentially convincing new avenues with that basic sound." [10] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "even those sections are reasonably elaborate in the way they’re constructed – it’s easy to tell how much effort has gone into it – but it just never quite all comes together and too much of it is just boring". [11]
In contrast, James Christopher Monger of AllMusic wrote "The resulting score for The Bourne Legacy is as relentlessly taut as it is atmospheric, expertly doling out layer after layer of chilly electronics, thundering kettle drums, and dissonant strings, before careening feet-first into the familiar opening strains of Moby's "Extreme Ways," which appears here in a slightly updated form". [12] Brent Simon of Screen International wrote "Nicely incorporating different percussive elements, Newton Howard’s score captures the film’s nervous energy". [13] Richard Propes of The Independent Critic commented "James Newton Howard's original music is fine, though a bit more cliche'd than one might expect from the acclaimed composer". [14]
Howard received a World Soundtrack Awards nomination for Film Composer of the Year losing to Mychael Danna for Life of Pi . [15] He was longlisted for Best Original Score at the 85th Academy Awards along with 104 contenders, this include his scores for The Hunger Games and Snow White and the Huntsman , but failed to receive a nomination. [16] [17]
Credits adapted from CD liner notes. [18]
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