10 Complex Movie Schemes That Actually Make No Sense

2. Every Dark Knight Villain Relies On Luck, General Idiocy

Danny Ocean might rely on a surprising amount of lucky breaks for his capers to be pulled off successfully, but that's nothing compared to every villain Batman faces in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. Take, for example, the bank robbery at the start of The Dark Knight: it requires absolutely expert timing for everything to work out properly, including every member of the team killing each other, and that school bus crashing through the wall just in time for The Joker to not get shot himself. How did the Clown Prince Of Crime know that would happen at exactly the right moment? He didn't. He probably should've just shot the guy. The League Of Shadows definitely win the prize for the most complex schemes which make no sense, however. For one thing, they're weirdly obsessed with Gotham City - and their plans to bring it down rarely hold any water. In Batman Begins they plan to turn every member of the city into murderers using a transmitter on a train, which is a terrible way to "tear a city apart" and also, why not just use the Scarecrow's fear gas? Then the Dark Knight Rises...right, what was Bane's plan even? And why did it involve ruining Wayne Enterprise's stock? And how would that even work, since he held the stock exchange up so clearly Wayne Enterprises didn't do all that dodgy stuff? Why not just kill Batman and get it over with at the start?