One of the worst sounding Bond films?
What's up with the sound and music in this film?
(And I'm not talking about the Sheryl Crow song, which I actually think is one of the better Bond theme songs)
The dialogue for most of the first half of the film seems to have been re-recorded and dubbed, and not very well, as it's very obvious.
Then the music cues sound dreadfully out of place. Listen to the music in the pre-title sequence (at about 04:40 into the film) just before bond offers the guy a light. One music cue just abruptly stops and another completely different one takes over. It's really jarring. If you use the 'isolated music track' option this bad piece of music editing is even more obvious.
And let's not forget the Bond theme. It's over-used in the film, and there's actually only one scene where it sits well; during the motorbike chase. The rest of the time it feels shoehorned into the scenes without much thought. During a firefight on the stealth boat near the end, the Bond theme is just overlaid onto a completely different piece of (still audible) music. It's a real mess.