Unfortunately, Pinto seems more than content simply to provide the film with endlessly bland see-sawing string chords augmented by an array of bubbly synthesized drum loops, just like every other D-grade thriller score for every D-grade thriller movie in the last five years. A femme fatale leading lady, plot twists, intrigue, double crossing, murder… it all sounds very good. Written for a large string orchestra with additional pianos, keyboard, guitars and his ubiquitous Brazilian rabeca violin, Perfect Stranger would look to have the potential to be an excellent thriller score.
Of course, as always happens in films such as this, nothing is quite as it seems, and as Rowena finds herself getting closer and closer to Hill, her life becomes increasingly threatened… Deciding to investigate on her own, Rowena goes undercover at Harrison’s corporate office disguised as a temp, and uses her ‘womanly charms’ to pump Hill for information, while her colleague Miles (Giovanni Ribisi) feeds her dirty information. When Rowena’s old friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) is found murdered, her attentions turn to powerful New York ad executive Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) – Rowena discovers that Grace and Harrison had been having an affair, and that Grace may have been pregnant. Pinto, having already contributed music to Collateral in 2004 and Lord of War in 2005, has shown an irritating lack of innovation in his music, which continues here – it’s a score which, for all intents and purposes, is just “there”, never really adding any extra dimension to the film, never really doing anything musically interesting, and not making for an especially interesting listening experience.ĭirected by James Foley, the film stars Halle Berry as investigative journalist Rowena, who specializes in going undercover to expose white-collar fraud. A case in point is Perfect Stranger, written by Brazilian composer Antônio Pinto. It’s possibly another holdover from television scoring, where music’s sole purpose seems simply to be to fill the dead air time between the dialogue and the songs, but to have this kind of lack of vision or technique bleeding through to film scoring is unsatisfactory indeed. He was replaced with Joe Satriani until Steve Morse took the place as a guitar player.There’s a disappointing musical trend developing in the world of the modern Hollywood thriller: nobody’s willing to write memorable music any more.
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