Excellent

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2008)

My only problem with the movie was the score. Very naive and linear! Jonny Greenwood is not a composer of orchestral music (even though he had help to arrange his ideas!) and it shows...there is an over the top use of "glissando Strings" to create tension and other techniques such as discords etc.. these are useful used sparingly. There is an absence of using counterpoint and harmonic change throughout the whole score and at times the use of gimmicks and just rhythm becomes annoying against the cinematography and dialogue. The score has been written by a guitarist from a band and as a result it is limited and naive to say the least.
Shame as the film is excellent!