Bond 24: 10 Skyfall Flaws That Spectre Should Improve Upon

5. That Forgettable Musical Score

No, not Adele's very memorable - but slightly annoying - title track which shares its name with the movie itself, but Thomas Newman's very unforgettable and mostly bland score, which features exactly zero memorable musical cues and lingers in your memory in absolutely no way. Think back to the score that David Arnold gave us for Casino Royale, which was clever and made use of leitmotifs and a slow, easing-in of the iconic Bond score over the length of the movie (not to mention the way that it incorporated Chris Cornell's "Your Know My Name"). Now there's a film score. To give Skyfall composer Thomas Newman some credit, his musical score sounds nothing like anything else he's ever done (and everything else he's ever done all sounds kind of the same). Still, you come away from Skyfall having taken nothing at all from the soundtrack but its standing as a bit of background noise; there's no sense of coherency between Bond movies on the musical front, either, which is somewhat jarring. Spectre needs to give a little more in the way of its musical score: you need character themes, you need leitmotifs, and you need musical callbacks to previous Craig flicks.