6 Acclaimed Films With Narratives That Relied On Several Plot Holes

3. Skyfall

This is a bad film. That's right, I said it.

Hopefully, your sense of trauma has faded since I told you my opinions on Skyfall, the most overrated movie of all time. But them theories are for another day. This day is about plotholes, so here they are.

There's the whole beginning of the film. Firstly, the train that Bond and Patrice brawl on withstands losing its cargo, a rampaging bulldozer, eventually being torn in half, and yet the conductor did not give a rat's ass. In any given scenario, the train would stop seconds into the sequence. And what about that which the two were fighting over? The Mission Impossible 2 drive with the names of agents undercover? Yeah, that went when Bond 'died' and arrived safe into the hands of Youtube - all to the horror of a constantly frowning Judi Dench. After that, it disappeared. Honestly, there's no mention of the drive after the outbreak. The viewer never finds out whether the next few names on the list were aired, or even if MI6 recovered the whole thing. That's pretty much abysmal story telling.

What else is a bit funny about this film, is 007 himself. Apparently, he can survive a high calibre bullet to the chest and a fall hundreds of feet high, within five minutes of each other. This. Is. Not. Possible. The way he fell, and from that height, would have made the water below as fatal as concrete. Yet, everyone was alright with it. I mean, why wouldn't they be? Adele's impeccable voice would have healed him, no problem. Come to think of it, why didn't Eve go after Patrice after she shot Bond? Eye locking from a hundred yards away won't stop world terrorism.

Silva's plan had absolutely no sense, whatsoever. The amount of coincidences he relied on for it to work boggles the mind, to the point were it actually takes the enjoyment out of the film. In fact, there were 9 coincidences in total. Here they are: Patrice needed to be apprehended or neutralised by MI6. Patrice needed to have his Casino chip present on his person at that time of capture/death. Bond had to take down Severine's three body guards at the casino, all the while being there at the exact same time as her. Bond had to have a tracking device given to him before the mission, so MI6 would know exactly where and when to send a full squadron of agents to his location. MI6 had to have hooked-up Silva's personal computer to their entire mainframe. The date and time that MI6 would try to hack the computer, had to be the same day that M's enquiry took place, and had to be the same day that Silva's agents were in the subway to hand him a police uniform. The armed guards that watched over Silva mustn't have known how to use a gun, or how to put bullets in it. Bond had to start chasing him to a secret cavern were explosives would have been planted approximately weeks or months before. A train had to be passing that cavern at the exact same time Bond caught up with Silva, otherwise the whole 'radio' thing would be pointless. I hate this film.