Firewall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK]

Alexandre Desplat (Composer)

Product Details

• Composer: Alexandre Desplat
• Audio CD (February 14, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000E0OEQW
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #164,270 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Firewall

2. Surveillance

3. Breaking In

4. The Bank

5. First Night

6. Hostages

7. The Camera Dances

8. The Epi-Pen

9. The Family Theme

10. Escape From The Bank

11. Looking For Help

12. Exchanging The Files

13. The Fight

14. Rainy Day

15. Together Again

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The thrilling score for Firewall was composed by acclaimed newcomer Alexandre Desplat.

About the Movie:
Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) works for the Seattle-based Landrock Pacific Bank. A trusted top-ranking executive, he has built his career and reputation on designing the most effective anti-theft computer systems in the industry, protecting the bank's financial holdings from the constant threat of increasingly sophisticated internet hackers with his complex network of tracers, access codes and firewalls.

Jack's position affords a comfortable life for him, his architect wife Beth (Virginia Madsen) and their two young children--a standard of living that includes a beautiful home in a residential community just outside the city. But there's a vulnerability in Jack's system that he has not accounted for: himself. It's a vulnerability that one very ruthless and resourceful thief is poised to exploit.

Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) has been studying Jack and his family for many months; monitoring their online activity, listening to their calls and learning their daily routines with an arsenal of digital and video recorders and parabolic microphones that tap into the most personal of information. Having spent the better part of a year methodically infiltrating every aspect of Jack's identity, Cox is now ready to make good on his investment.

Leading a tight team of mercenary accomplices, he seizes control of the Stanfield house, making Beth and the kids terrified hostages in their own home and Jack his unwilling pawn in a scheme to steal $100 million from the Landrock Pacific Bank.

With every possible escape route shrewdly anticipated and blocked by Cox, every potential ally out of reach and the lives of his wife and children at stake, Jack is forced to find a breach in his own formidable security system to siphon funds into his captor's offshore account--incriminating himself in the process and eradicating any electronic evidence that Cox ever existed.

Under constant surveillance, he has only hours to accomplish the risky transactions while desperately hunting for a loophole in the thief's own impenetrable wall of subterfuge and false identities to save his family and beat Cox at his own game.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine suspense score, and then some. . ., April 30, 2006

By	Nathan Blumenfeld "mastadge" (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I must disagree with the previous reviewer. This score is yet another fine one from Desplat, who's one of the most exciting up-and-comers in the movie score business. But you need to keep in mind that it is a suspense score, and suspense scores are not exactly known as the most accessible genre. You don't go into a suspense film expecting memorable themes; mostly what's there is quieter underscore -- and it's notoriously difficult to make that underscore engaging on its own terms as well as appropriate to the movie. Here, Desplat succeeds, crafting a score that can, for the most part, hold its own with those by great suspense composers like Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann (though sometimes his musical sensibilities, while more his own than almost anyone else in Hollywood, have more in common with Danny Elfman or Elliot Goldenthal than those others). This is a well-crafted, above average suspense score, the highlight of which is the 10-minute "Escape From the Bank", but where it really shines is in the action cues -- the opening "Firewall" and "The Fight" mark the first balls-to-the-wall action that I've yet heard from Desplat, and prove that he's more than capable of writing loud action music in addition to the more subtle dramatic stuff he's known for.

This is not an instantly memorable John Williams fairy tale score, and it's not trying to be. As a suspense score, it's a well-crafted, well-constructed piece of music that further shows Desplat for the remarkable young composer he is.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very basic really, March 6, 2006

By	tayloran9 (London UK) - See all my reviews

I must say I'm really bemused at the top reviews this score has received from some of the top soundtrack critics. I'm new to Desplat's music and was really expecting something quite special and enjoyable with this score after reading some of those reviews, however, I really don't see how this score can be regarded as anything other than often monotonous, passable underscore. I haven't seen the movie, and I can sense that the music would certainly be apt but I'm afraid that as a seperate listening experience, there is very little music here that could be described as memorable or impressive.