Too often, he reserves the choir for the big climaxes, such as in Dead Again and Hamlet, although the choral-driven Needful Things does make up for this lack. Anyway, the song Non nobis, Domine is great, especially the first playing of it on the battlefield, accompanied by orchestra. Amazingly, in less than a decade, this has already started to work its way into the classical world - I hear it on my local classical station from time to time. The only real problems with this are that it is a little repetitive at times, and occasionally lapses into semi-filler. This, however, I think is generally problematic of trying to score Shakespeare in the first place and shouldn't really be held against him.
Scores work best when they have action onscreen to play against.
That's the kind of problem even the greatest film composers could never solve well, and you can't exactly hold it against Doyle for not solving it on his first try. In short, it's a great score for a great film. This is definately one to check out. Go back to the A-I index. Go back to the Doyle index.