Good flick spoiled by appalling sound track

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2011)

Jason Statham is always a pleasure to watch, but I hope his taste in music is not reflected by the appalling sound track. With its repetitive beat and crashingly dull "melodies," it has to be one of the worst sound tracks I've ever heard - so loud at times that it drowns out the dialogues. At first, I thought it was computer-generated, but a computer would have done a much better job. It would also have been useful to have had sub-titles when Chinese (?Mandarin ? Cantonese) was being spoken. Finally, does "Wall Street" say "Stay alive" to Frank Martin in the shipping container scene? If so, why? He is eventually killed - or at least he seems to be - but it's not clear why he says this to Frank.