• Composed by Steve Jablonsky

A Netflix action comedy, Red Notice very boldly makes no attempt to hide its inspirations from Indiana Jones to True Lies (amongst many others) – bold, because if that’s what you’re going to force yourself to be compared with, you’d better be good. It isn’t very good, wasting the charisma of its leads (Dwayne Johnson in particular), but it passes the time. Director Rawson Marshall Thurber had worked with composer Steve Jablonsky and, while the film itself may be a bit of a damp squib, the score exceeds expectations. It opens slightly misleadingly with a piece of traditional orchestral adventure music in “The Egg”, full of portent and mystery and wonder; more typical is the fleshed-out arrangement of the fabulous main theme which follows in “Red Notice”. While it sounds very familiar – essentially a variant on the orchestral heist movie sound as heard in things like Mission: Impossible and perhaps most similarly, Ant Man – it’s extremely entertaining, immediately becoming my favourite piece of music that Jablonsky’s ever written.