Title: Good disc, okay soundtrack.
Product review: While the soundtrack to Blow is a great disc to have around to pop into the cd player, there really is nothing exciting about it as a soundtrack. It is full of period pieces, to go along with a period tale. It seems to have become standard practice to entice viewers to the screen with music for which they are nostalgic, which tends to make the movie fit solidly into a category and not stand so much on its own. It does ring of Goodfellas and Casino, and even of Forrest Gump. That said, the soundtrack has a lot of great songs, but you've heard them all before, and probably have them tucked away somewhere already, especially the best tracks. If you don't, well, then this is well worth the money.
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