[Thor Joachim Haga]

Silvestri’s score for the new Shane Black film PLAY DIRTY is getting some buzz on film music forums, I see. Well, I’m listening to it now, and it isn’t THAT interesting. Some good tracks, some that seem clearly modelled on PREDATOR (which isn’t so strange, since Black was involved both as script doctor and actor in that film….what’s more strange is that he didn’t go for Silvestri on his actual PREDATOR film from 2018). A lot of those start/stop effects that Silvestri often employs. But some funky and jazzy cues, and some romantic and broad. Nowhere near the level of his wonderful score for HERE last year (which was his TRUE comeback score), but okay.