Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[innerSpaceman]

Spoilers wherein I discount Alex's problems with plot holes and raise the one that instead bothers me a lot:

Spoiler:

For what it's worth (i.e., I don't think the absurdly perfect plot of Silva merits real dissection), I did not figure his plan relied on Bond specifically, but only that he would allow himself to be captured and taken to London. And I will allow for the tube station roof explosion to be the only part planned, perhaps to cover his tracks or perhaps to thwart any live pursuit, but that the train timing was coincidental in the context of the film ... and such "coincidences" in action films were hardly invented last week for Skyfall.

Spoiler:

No, the one that really bugged me was the elaborate assassination of the dude viewing the painting on the high floor of a skyscraper. Everyone in the room with the target was in on the plot, so why bother having the assassin in a tower across the street? Why not have him in the bedroom or the closet or under the sofa in that very room?

Even if I go so far as to assume the room was secured and the personnel checked for weapons by the cautious target (when nothing in the film eluded to this), it's hard to believe the three of them could not simply kill the target with a bottle or by strangling or by really poor art depression. The complex assassination was just absurd ... and struck me way moreso than the main villain's super-elaborate London plot.

But neither detracted me from the enjoyment of this Bond movie, and rare is the one without absurd plot holes.