Tomorrow Never Dies: Music From The Motion Picture
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Where the previous Bond installment,
Goldeneye
, profited from the gratifying if belated introduction of actor Pierce Brosnan as an 007 for the '90s and beyond, it suffered from a musical mismatch. Composer Eric Serra had scored several successes with French director Luc Besson (
La Femme Nikita
,
The Professional
,
The Big Blue
) but floundered trying to update a genre whose John Barry-penned scores had long ago become legend. David Arnold's music for
Tomorrow Never Dies
is arguably less adventuresome than Serra's for
Goldeneye
, returning largely to Barry's conservative musical pattern for the Bond films. But it's still grandly effective, and probably better than the movie it supports.
--Jerry McCulley