20 Movies So Good You Ignore Huge Plot Holes

12. The Long Walk - No-One Could Walk For That Long

In Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, a marathon walking contest is held. 50 young men are given a simple instruction: walk or die. By the time the context concludes with its sole survivor, this contest has unfolded over 300 miles and around five days. This scenario is completely impossible.

No-one, not even a trained athlete, could walk for that length of time and that distance without stopping or sleeping. Furthermore, the young lads featured in the film are not athletes; they are everyday citizens living in a dystopian society that presumably has little in the way of sports training. It would've been theoretically possible if the competition took place over two or three days at the very most, but not this. 

Nonetheless, this particular flick compensates for this plot hole many times over. The Long Walk is a remarkably powerful dystopian thriller that's one of the most impressively bleak mainstream films in recent memory, and the performances are absolutely fantastic, too. It'll pull audiences in far too much for them to think too much about its lack of believability.