Through the magnifying glass

 James Bond is one of the longest running series in film history, known for its awesome action, beautiful women, cool gadgets and oh-so handsome Bond himself. In short it’s also popular for its totality.                          

But what we’re looking at today are a few plot holes that made us actually stop and say “Wait, what?!”

 

1)     During the Day of Dead.

                  

During the otherwise excellent opening scene to Spectre, during the Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mexico City, Bond tracks down and assassinates an assassin named Marco Sciarra. While trying to kill his target, Bond accidently shoots a suitcase filled with explosives, which blows up half a building.

Aaaand no one notices....

                     

Bond returns to the street to pursue his target and the festivities are still going on as normal. I mean surely somebody would have seen a building collapsing in the middle of everything? Or is it regular thing over there?! An explosion goes off in a packed city during the busiest day of the year and it’s completely ignored by everyone.

2)  How all the bond villains ended up wearing the same ring?

                  

‘Q’ using a DNA scanning machine, realises that a Spectre- marked ring that Bond recovers during the film’s epic opening scene from an assassin named Marco Sciarra has DNA traces from all the three bad guys from the previous movies( Daniel Craig’s), namely Le Chiffre, Domininc Green and Raoul Silva,  were all working under the Spectre organisation the whole time!

The question is how their DNA somehow wound up in the same ring.

Do the script writers want us to believe all three have shared the same ring while Marco Sciarra was supposedly wearing it? Were the audience supposed to buy the fact that the ring was passed on between all the villains , that coincidentally dealt with James Bond.

What are the odds?

3)   The CNS building is empty at night.

          

When M, C and Q go to the CNS building, why is it empty? Surely it should be staffed 24 hours a day especially on the night they are going live with the new system? Looks like “We have people everywhere” became with the budget cuts to Spectre’s staff “We have people everywhere...between 9am and 6pm”

4)  Blofeld as the “Author” of all Bond’s pain.

            

       As the film reaches its climax, Blofeld, who turned out to be agent 007 ‘s half-brother with daddy issues and thus seeking vengeance against Bond, claims to be the author of all of Bond’s pain. How could Blofeld have masterminded all of Bond’s pain when Bond was randomly assigned most of his cases, or stumbled upon them by accident? Le Chiffre didn’t plan to meet Bond; James was sent after him. Dominic Green had other things on his plate long before Bond got involved. Silva was going after M and wanted revenge on her, Bond aside.

Trying to shoehorn all four Bond movies into one continuity was a huge plot hole in itself as it suggests that Blofeld somehow manipulated all the events that led James Bond to each villain, which clearly wasn’t the case. How could he have known that bond would be assigned to each and every villain? How could he have even predicted that Bond would become a secret agent, thus drawing the pair into the scenario that Blofeld wanted?

       Spectre gave tough competition to those Hindi daily soaps when it came to frustrating the heck out of its audience.

                                                                                             -Rtr. Rishika Banerjee