5. Train Crash - Skyfall (2012)
As a recent release I am assuming everyone reading this will be acquainted with the plot of the 23rd Bond film. The London underground acts as the setting for a game of cat and mouse between Bond (Daniel Craig) and the films antagonist Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem). The train crash was a moment highly publicised through Skyfalls trailers and one I was excited to witness in the cinema, I was not left disappointed. In a complex set piece Q is left to decrypt Raoul Silvas device which is highly sophisticated in its security. Once Q deciphers it, it is revealed that all along this has been a ploy, Silva is freed. Bond gives chase and the two finally come face to face below Londons railway as Silva is ascending a ladder to the surface. Silva has a final ploy, he uses his radio as a detonator for a bomb in the ceiling. Bond is confused for he is uninjured and the blast was far from him, sarcastically he states, I hope that wasnt for me. Silva then attributes the explosion to the oncoming train, having created a hole beneath the track of the train essentially trying to use it as a battering ram against Bond. The protagonist is able to evade the descending tube train, though it allows Silva to escape. It is a fantastic set piece and if you were lucky enough to not have seen it before the film, you would have hopefully been pleasantly surprised and entertained. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KXKHnkYVY_s