Review of The Firm (1993) by Xianyu — 22 Jul 2020
Never before have I lost interest in a movie due to music choice alone. I usually don't notice music in movies. I can appreciate it when it's insanely well-done (Such as John Wick, etc) but otherwise, music is a background element I pay no attention to. The amount of this movie that I watched, that I could actually stomach, had the single most awfully-chosen soundtrack I have ever heard. Even tense moments were completely undermined by this awful chirpy 'everything is okay and happy' piano chord music that was so distractingly out of place, and was so discordant with the actual happenings on screen that it was like watching the movie on an ipad in a piano bar almost far enough to dodge the ambient piano but not quite.
Needless to say it took me right out the movie when I was watching Tom Cruise sneakily searching through a medicine cabinet or whatever, suspecting that his partner is an ACTUAL MURDERER and the tense scene of him trying to conduct the search without being noticed is underscored by AWFUL CHIRPY PIANO MUSIC.
As I said, I rarely care about music. So for it to completely ruin a movie, it has to be absolutely abhorrent. And it is. It is godawful.
This review of The Firm (1993) was written by Xianyu on 22 Jul 2020.
The Firm has generally received positive reviews.
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