10 Huge Movie Moments That Didn't Matter At All
1. Silva's Convoluted Plan Makes No Sense - Skyfall (2012)
The twenty-third James Bond movie became the biggest movie of the franchise. It even won awards - so it’s odd that so few people have noticed that the plot is such utter nonsense, isn’t it?
The villainous Raoul Silva has his men steal a hard drive containing the names of British undercover agents, hacks MI6’s server and blows up the headquarters of British Intelligence. 007 heads to China to track the hard drive down, captures Silva and brings him back to MI6’s new underground HQ for interrogation.
But! It was all part of the plan. Silva has a vendetta against M: he escapes, foiling his pursuers with an elaborate prison break scenario planned years in advance that includes explosive charges to bring down the roof on the London Underground.
How did Silva know that Bond wouldn’t just kill him? it is, after all, what 007 is most famous for doing. How does he know he’ll be brought back to England, rather than some off-shore black site? How does he guess that Q will be stupid enough to hook up the computer of a master hacker to the MI6 mainframe?
After all that scheming and plotting, what’s the payoff? What’s Silva done all this for?
Well. All he does is turn up at M’s parliamentary hearing disguised as a policeman and shoot the place up. He and his men could have waltzed into the country under fake passports and done exactly the same thing without any of that ludicrous nonsense... and they would never have known he was coming.