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Rambo - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Rambo finally returns to the movies, and it also means new music! This CD contains almost the entire score by Brian Tyler. His versions of main and action themes do the first three movie scores justice. Although the tracking is a bit odd, the music is exciting and worth turning the volume up!! My favorite track in particular is track 2 (No Rules Of Engagement). Tyler has his own blend of powerful action themes and percussion and strings to give it it's own rythm. Tracks like The Aftermath and The Village present some of the more peaceful moments in the music. Track 7, Hunting Mercenaries, gives a real "charge"! Tracks 1 and 19 are simillar and represent two versions of the opening scenes of the film, track 19 being the alternate version to track 1 that was heard in the film.

The best part of the whole CD is the used of the original Rambo music by the late Jerry Goldsmith, which can be heard on tracks 1,2,8,12,18,19,and 20. Those themes brought back the original emotions of the original soundtracks of the first three, and I can happily say that Brian Tyler did Jerry Goldsmith's themes justice!

I believe this is worthy of calling it Rambo music. Enjoy!!

The score is (nearly) perfect! Brian Tyler does a GREAT job combining his themes with those of Jerry Goldsmith. My only gripe is that (again) the music is not in order as you hear it in the film. It is a HUGE pet-peeve of mine...sorry. Also, the track 'Rambo Theme' sounds more like the main title music as opposed to track titled 'Rambo Main Title'...weird. And for those looking for the music that accompanies Rambo's final act of gut-wrenching vengeance, check out the end of track two - No Rules of Engagement...AWESOME!

This is one of the most surprisingly emotional and gripping scores I have heard in a long time. The wonderful nostalgia of hearing the original Goldsmith theme combines with the epic new themes from Brian Tyler to create an extremely satisfying CD. The action from Tyler is, as always, top notch with soaring orchestra and massive percussive thunder. But it is the memorable new Rambo theme that really sets this apart.

I know I've said it before but I still cannot believe that Brian Tyler, a composer who first came to my attention with the wonderful Bubba Ho-Tep (Signature Edition) score, could so quickly turn into a hack churning out 'noise' scores for trash movies such as The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift [Original Motion Picture Score] and the inarticulate, bombastic sounds of Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. What a disappointment this obviously talented man has turned out to be. Or was the music of Bubba Ho-Tep merely a fluke?

Living up to Jerry Goldsmith is no easy task even for a vetran, so it puzzles me why Tyler should receive that honor above everyone else. Think of how good the score to Rambo would have been if Chris Young, James Horner or Alan Silvestri had been hired. I'm afraid to say that, as it is, the only good parts of this CD are moments when Tyler more or less directly cut and pastes portions of Goldsmith's work from First Blood: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1982 Film). What little melodic input Tyler uses from his own imagination is sadly generic and forgettable. Also, while he's strengthening his own sub-par music with Goldsmith's why did he choose to leave out the absolutely brilliant main theme from Rambo: First Blood Part II - Original Film Soundtrack, New Expanded Edition? I can just imagine that theme being used to great effect in the finale when Rambo seizes control of that massive gun and lays waste to the bad guys.

Each of the score CDs from the first three movies have signature sounds and themes in pretty much every single track. Unfortunately, aside from the occasional cue containing the wonderful Rambo theme, this CD is mainly filled with more of the tiresome action 'noise' that is so commonplace in film-scoring these days. There's hardly anything memorable about the new material on this CD and I recommend it only to Goldsmith or Rambo fans.

Brian has done it again! Directly after the stunning success of his WONDERFUL AvP:R score, he once again brings it with "Rambo." Goldsmith would be proud at the faithful adaptions and loving treatment of his majestic themes. I also have a feeling Goldsmith would have been proud of the intensely brutal direction Tyler brings to the Rambo franchise. Just like the film, the score pounds with intensity that doesn't let up hardly ever.
Add to all of these positive attributes EXCELLENT sound mixing and an over seventy minute runtime, and you have a nearly perfect score.

This soundtrack is definitively a tribute to Rambo and Mr. Goldsmith musical work done on Rambo movies......Mr. Tyler has done again..captured the escence of rambo's world......all tracks are excelent, but my favorite is BATTLE ADAGIO.....when I hearded for the first time, I burst into tears......I felt Identified with the characters of the movie after the battle......I hope there will be anotther Rambo movie, because this one was really good, actually is one of my favorites, and the soundtrack, touches your soul and heart....you feel yourself inside of Rambo's world.......SIMPLY THE BEST!!!!!

One of the best movie soundtrack I have heard in a long time! When I saw the movie, (which by the way, is the best sequel ever) I was really impressed by the sound track. It pulls you in and makes you a part of the action. When I got the CD, I played it in my car and got so drawn in it that when I looked down at my speedometer, I was doing almost 90 MPH! Crank it up or listen to it on your headphones you will not be disappointed!!!!!

This isn't your father's Rambo soundtrack. It's much deeper and darker. Tyler's score reminds of the Gladiator score in that it really captures the heat of battle (although it comes nowhere near the Gladiator waltz). He gives the score a jungle twist that fits the film's Burmese setting. The score isn't distinctive or memorable enough to give it 5 stars, but it's still a great action-movie soundtrack.

By one of the best film music composer of Hollywood !
The music is fitting the movie very closely, an excellent action film music.
Listen to ''The children of Dune'' from this composer, and you will known that he is a very very good film music composer !!!
And better, he is one of the spiritual sons of Jerry Goldsmith, my favorite film composer.

I am a big fan of the writer/composer of STAR WARS/Jurasic Park's/ect...
Mr. John Williams. But Mr. Tyler and his ability to transcend RAMBO'S character thru music and his use of EASTERN Tibetian/Thai music helps the film and RAMBO'S character end a long standing struggle he has thru the first three and then the last RAMBO with his conscience and his view of the world. A very peaceful and powerful soundtrack. One of RAMBO's... (Stallone's) best pieces of the 4. Soundtrack does this movie JUSTICE and just listening to it GREAT and PEACEFUL.