Dropped my rating of 8 to 6 because of the terrible soundtrack.

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2012)

There seems to be a growing trend of using "pop" songs as a bigger and bigger part of the soundtrack in movies. I've seen quite a bit of this being done on television shows and increasingly in movies. It just seems lazy to me.
If they had paid someone to create a "real" soundtrack, the movie would have been so much better. I was watching the extras on the DVD and someone (I think it was the producer) compared this movie with "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" and "Bullitt". If they had been using this silly technique to create soundtracks from a mixed bag of "pop" songs back then, what a sad experience watching those movies would have been.
I would love it if they would re-release this movie with a real soundtrack. And I'm pretty sure that all of the actors involved would support that idea. They probably thought that they were going to create a pretty good movie but were disappointed when they saw the result with that lousy soundtrack. For me the movie went from a letter grade of "B" to a "D" (80% down to 60%) because of that alone.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, The Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, and all of the other big time directors will start doing the same. Nah...I don't think so. Why? Because it would be stupid! Just imagine if the greatest movies from the past used this technique. It's laughable.