The ones that stood out for me were “A Terrible Choice,” “And The Warrior Whispers Back” and “Escape Through Paris.” This last track ends with a short version of the famous Mission: Impossible theme, but also Balfe’s main theme for this movie can be found in this track, which is a pattern of three long notes which sound like the first three notes in the old Mission: Impossible theme. Many tracks could be used as an example here. The album is more than 90 minutes long and most of it consists of filler music for the action sequences with long percussion parts – with bongos most of the time – as well as simple melody lines and simple musical patterns laid on top.
For the music, he used 12 percussionists to play the bongos and many other melodic lines and rhythms were done with a large number of musicians as well.
As to the rest of the score, the first track “A Storm Is Coming” sums up his vision perfectly: more massive brass playing chords and bongos – a lot of bongos. Lorne Balfe’s own flavor added to the theme can be heard in “Fallout,” using massive chords from the brass players and bongos, and in “Mission: Accomplished” where he include a choir. Each composer wrote a score in his own style. Almost every Mission: Impossible movie had music by a different composer, with big names such as Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino (for two movies) and Joe Kraemer. The first thing is Tom Cruise, since he has been part of this franchise for more than 20 years, and the second will be its iconic theme composed by Lalo Schifrin. Most of the time when you hear people talk about a Mission: Impossible movie nowadays, two things will probably come to your mind. After seeing the movie, I came to the conclusion that I would really like to write down my thoughts about the music of this score. In the meantime, this score was a subject in many discussions between film music critics on the internet where there was a lot of negativity, but there were also quite some people who liked the score. I was planning to pass this score and focus on others. After exploring the soundtrack of Mission: Impossible – Fallout composed by Lorne Balfe, I really had my doubts if I wanted to review it: I have already reviewed his score for Pacific Rim: Uprising, which was not really positive, and my initial thoughts about his score for the latest addition to the Mission: Impossible franchise were not very positive either.
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