'POINT BREAK' Original soundtrack
'POINT BREAK' Original soundtrack
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La La Land has been showing a lot of soundtrack love to the silliest shoot-em-up’s from the mid-80’s to the mid-90’s- a period when buddy cops, car flips, self-reloading guns, endless body counts and knowingly goofy scripts transformed the action movie into a red-splattered comic book. Now after releasing the era’s grooviest scores with Mark Mancina and Harold Faltemeyer’s soundtracks to BAD BOYS and TANGO AND CASH, La La Land has unleashed what might be the holy grail of action music with Mark Isham’s score to POINT BREAK.
Perhaps no formulaic flick reached BREAK’s Tsunami-like peak of high concept, as Keanu Reeves’ FBI agent Johnny Utah hung ten with Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi and his band of surfer dude bank robbers called “The Ex-Presidents.” Filled with enough insane plot twists and howlingly awful lines to inspire the currently running parody show POINT BREAK LIVE! (now playing in LA), the film’s jaw-dropping idiocy was balanced by the bravura creativity of director Kathryn Bigelow’s action scenes, and Mark Isham’s legitimately terrific score- a inventive mix of orchestra and Zen electronic vibes that still stand as a high water mark in creative action scoring. Just ask director Edgar Wright, who used its “Foot Chase” in HOT FUZZ- a compliment to the enduring glory of POINT BREAK if there ever was one.
Perhaps no formulaic flick reached BREAK’s Tsunami-like peak of high concept, as Keanu Reeves’ FBI agent Johnny Utah hung ten with Patrick Swayze’s Bodhi and his band of surfer dude bank robbers called “The Ex-Presidents.” Filled with enough insane plot twists and howlingly awful lines to inspire the currently running parody show POINT BREAK LIVE! (now playing in LA), the film’s jaw-dropping idiocy was balanced by the bravura creativity of director Kathryn Bigelow’s action scenes, and Mark Isham’s legitimately terrific score- a inventive mix of orchestra and Zen electronic vibes that still stand as a high water mark in creative action scoring. Just ask director Edgar Wright, who used its “Foot Chase” in HOT FUZZ- a compliment to the enduring glory of POINT BREAK if there ever was one.
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