Spectre: 6 Stupid Plot Holes That Ruined The Movie

5. How Would All The Bond Villains Have Worn The Same Ring?

One of Spectre's big reveals come in the form of a huge bombshell in which the audience learns by way of a special ring that all of the bad guys from previous Daniel Craig Bond movies - that being Le Chiffre, Dominic Green and Raoul Silva - were all working under the Spectre organisation the whole time (more on that logical fallacy later). Shocking! This crazy twist is discovered when Q, using a "DNA scanning machine," realises that a Spectre-marked ring that Bond recovers during the film's epic opening sequence from an assassin named Marco Sciarra has DNA traces from all three bad guys on it. As in: their DNA has somehow wound up on the same ring. Now, thinking on this for a just second, you wonder how the screenwriters ever arrived at a point where they felt like that made sense at all. Firstly, why are the odds that all three villains have shared the same Spectre ring over time? Secondly, if it was another long-standing Spectre member's ring (that's to say, it was Marco Sciarra's ring) how would they have each managed to get their hands on it whilst he was supposedly wearing it? To actually try to make sense of such an illogical plot hole is an exercise in futility: were audiences supposed to buy into the fact that the ring was passed on between all the villains, one by one, that coincidentally dealt with James Bond? What are the odds?
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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.