All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two...well, this wasn't quite two hours, but it was a fantastic watch, good enough to have come from Q branch itself! Full of great interviews and behind the scenes footage, this is really well put together and Bond fans will be in their element. Lots of insightful stories and as others have mentioned here, it's honest about this amazing musical legacy and the times it hasn't quite hit those high notes. So it's great to hear things like Radiohead's Spectre song, and surprising to see it played over the opening titles in a show like this. But it's also very of its time, and focuses on No time to Die at the expense of being more comprehensive. Whilst the scenes with Billy Eilish and Hans Zimmer are brilliant, we could have had less of these to make way for some told the amazing areas they don't cover , like the late Michael Kamen's score for Licence to Kill, or to get more time on Barry's last entry with The Living Daylights. Only briefly do we hear about Chris Cornell's superb work on his Casino Royale theme, and there's no mention of the unusually European sound of Goldeneye. They could also have discussed the secondary themes, like Pretenders or KD Lang. We see Sheena Easton but never really discuss her theme tune, and don't mention Bill Conti's funky score to For your eyes only. Overall, not quite an all time high, but in this ever changing world in which we live in...u should give it a try.
Review of The Sound of 007
