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The A-Team (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Alan Silvestri

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Director Joe Carnahan's silver screen re-imagining of the popular 1980s television action/comedy series The A-Team brought the resourceful fugitive war heroes out of the Vietnam era and into the Gulf. Enlisting Alan Silvestri to carve out a score was a wise choice, as the veteran composer is well versed in the decade from which the show was resurrected, and while his take on the bloodless vigilantes' shenanigans hardly merits comparison to his work on the Back to the Future trilogy, Silvestri has managed to successfully blend the cheesy, pioneering spirit of Mike Post and Pete Carpenter's iconic A-Team theme (which doesn’t appear in full until the end credits) with the reverb-drenched, military snare, Hans Zimmer-inspired bravado of modern war/action films. The producers also get extra credit for not wantonly inserting a heavily orchestrated, vaguely related torch song from a breakout/already popular/fading female vocalist.

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Loved it

I loved this movie way better than I expected. Great soundtrack, its epic and captures the tense moments but at the same time smooth and sentimental at the same time. Brings together old styles with new.

Action - themes + electronic droning = disappointing.

RECOMMENDED FOR YOU IF: Relentless and occasionally enjoyable action music makes up for a lack of themematic material and depth.

I hate to say it, but Alan Silvestri seems to have fallen into a repeating rut of providing merely functional music for sub-par films. The A-Team is the latest score to take the functional-but-nothing-more route. Varese Sarabande has provided us with an overly-generous 72-minutes of music. At least 15 minutes could have been shaved from this album to make it more enjoyable. As it stands, what we have here is an overlong album for a score which lacks a distinct, memorable thematic identity. This is not to say that the score is themeless. Silvestri has concocted a theme of his own for the team which is usually heard in moments of intense action. It is an heroic, militaristic, simplistic, but incredibly slight theme which doesn't stick in one's memory for long after the first couple of listens. It does its job well enough, but cannot sustain a monothematic score over the course of 72 minutes. Listening to this album all of the way through is more of a chore than a joy.

That said, the score does have its moments of the thrilling action we all know Silvestri is capable of providing. "Saving Face" makes good use of the main theme over some thrillingly punchy brass hits. Also, one of the best set-pieces in the film also makes for one of the best tracks on this album. "Flying a Tank" is an absolutely thrilling action piece which seems to have a brass theme of its own. Another moment which deserves mention is Silvestri's spectacular recording of the original A-Team theme at the end of the album. It's sadly out-of-place, but is a breath of fresh air after the 70-minutes music which has come before and is a great way to end the album.

I cannot help but think about what such a missed opportunity this was for Silvestri. Here he had a chance to give this team a thematic identity and have a great deal of fun with it, but instead it seems as if he just switched himself onto autopilot once again. He could have even worked in a love theme, but passed that opportunity up as well. This is by-the-numbers music that I can only recommend for die-hard fans of the composer. Fans of the original series need only download the final track on the album, because the original theme is nowhere else quoted in full. If you have $10 to spare and are a die-hard fan of Silvestri, then this album may be worth a digital download purchase from you, but I wouldn't pay more than that for the CD.

A new version. With Alan Silvestri.

After making success in Predator (1989), The Polar Express, Night at the Museum and in other films, Alan Silvestri participates in the new version of The A-Team.
Currently, some managers are recreating movies or series, as in JJ Abrams' Star Trek, Tony Scott in "The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3", Sean Bailey in "TRON: Legacy" and among other directors. It was the same with the film The A-Team.
Alan is great in his compositions. I started liking him from the movie "Predator". Haha, of course I had not even born (I'm 15 years old), but I watched some years later. Anyway, congratulations on the Score.

Biography

Born: March 26, 1950 in NY

Genre: Soundtrack

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Of composer Alan Silvestri's many film scores, he is perhaps best-known for his work with director Robert Zemeckis, starting with their first movie project, Romancing the Stone, and continuing through the next decades with many more blockbuster classics. Silvestri began playing music at a young age while growing up in Teaneck, NJ, and was already considering a music career by the age of 15. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but after only two years moved out to Las Vegas and started...
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