Pitchfork

When Cee-Lo Green isn't "Kung Fu Fighting" with Jack Black, the Gnarly Goodie Mobster is with Paul Oakenfold backing up Jason Bourne. And they tell us Gnarls Barkley are The Odd Couple. Cee-Lo and the trance mega-DJ have paired up for the original soundtrack to the video game "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy", and as you could probably have guessed, their collaboration on "Falling" sets Cee-Lo's soulful vocals to Oakenfold's upbeat, bass-propelled electronic backing. Cee-Lo's voice is in fine form as usual, rough-edged and from the chest, even when he's singing stuff he (or Bryan Adams) could've come up with while watching movies for publicity-photo ideas-- from such fine turns of phrases as "There's a big black hole/ It's got my soul" to the finer still "It's so appealing/ But now I'm reeling." And like REO Speedwagon, I can't fight this feeling. Even when Cee-Lo soars on the chorus, there's a heavy-handed spoken-word repetition ("I'm falling") to bring him back down to (virtual) earth. The video pieces together scenes from the game with shots of a Bourne-related concert event featuring members of the Florida Classical Symphony; the game itself could still be pretty cool, but I'd rather watch a kung fu fighting baby.

[from the "Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy" OST]