A pretty solid Bond entry. I think the overall premise and aesthetic is something that is incredibly evocative of the time. Modern technology existed, but it was fairly nascent, and therefore print media was still prevalent and important. It's a neat little time capsule in that way. Of course, pretty much all of the Bond movies are time capsules in their own ways. It's part of why I enjoy watching the older ones so much.

I think the plot begins great, but ends up being underwhelming. At the beginning, it seems like Carver is a lunatic who wants to create and control the news. But then, at the climax, it's revealed that he's doing all of this so some Chinese general can step in to foster peace, and Carver will get Chinese broadcasting rights in return. That's incredibly disappointing! How mundane. It would've honestly been more satisfying if Carver was just crazy.

- My favorite part about the remote control car is how Bond's hands are not even properly on the controls for a good 80% or more of the time during the whole parking garage sequence, yet it still is driven flawlessly.
- After the motorcycle chase/helicopter explosion, there is naked baby butt on the screen in the foreground for like 8 seconds. Why they do that.
- Near the end, after Wai Lin takes out the engine, Bond comes on screen and fires his pistol. It visibly has a silencer on it, yet they used regular non-silenced gunshot audio for it. (Not that Hollywood silenced gunshots are ever realistic, but this wasn't right, either.)
- Very weird application of slow-mo for some of the action shots in the finale. It sticks out because it's not used regularly, and it also didn't really serve a purpose...
- Wai Lin _could have_ been a good character... but they dropped the ball hard by not even trying. She just randomly shows up wherever Bond happens to be, unexplained, until they finally are forced to work together, and then they just keep working together out of momentum more than anything. How did she end up scuba diving to the shipwreck _at the exact same time_ that Bond was there?! They don't even bother trying to explain this! They could've had a few establishing shots showing her tailing him, but the problem there is that they had Bond HALO dropped in by the CIA because they wanted the token Joe Don Baker appearance, so it would've been impossible for Wai Lin to know that Bond was going to be there when he was there. It was just pure random chance. Stupid.