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However, that train crash cannot be justified on any level. It required extreme clairvoyance and almost ESP levels of precognition by Silva to have been able to predict that he would be followed and set up (one presumes some time in advance) a remote controlled diversion as elaborate as that train. To have it pointed directly at Bond even further stretches the bounds of credibility.
I personally feel that those justifying this particular event are hurting their credibility in being able to defend other parts of this film's plot, where a defence may be possible.
The train sequence stands out for being more poppycock than 'gambit', imho of course..
It may have very well have been Mendes' intention, but the execution was terrible.
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You're right. But, it was a russian facility. You really think these guys would design and build such impregnable construction? ;)
I agree @DaltonCraig007. I think they just made it up as they went along with that pretitles, because the two sites (bungee jump and plane catch) seem to be from two completely different locations.
I didn't think much of it because I had already been taken out of the moment by the terrible CGI when Bond jumped off the mountain, and even when the title song kicked in and we see the plane with him in it fly by for a victory lap...
For me, the bungee jump was so brilliant that I didn't care that they messed up that ending part.
Here is a picture of the Dam used in the film. Now in the film universe The runway could just be beyond that mountain as seen in the picture. Bond may have needed to jump off the damn to infiltrate the facility by going in a place where nobody would suspect.
But hey, that's only a theory...A Bond theory! Thanks for listening.
Now I've decided not to include the Facility in this equation because there is no telling how big the Chemical facility was. The film version of the facility is much different than the game version. So within the confines of the Dam and Runway. It's hard to tell how long these branching paths are in relation are to eachother. But I believe this is why the Geography looks strange in the film. :)
Then whilst inside they either climb an awful lot of stairs or go up a very long lift shaft. Which would probably make the chemical facility taller than the tallest building in the world. We'll give them that one too.
Bond runs after an airplane on foot and manages to catch up with it. Okay, let's be generous and say that the plane was only at taxiing speed. And Bond can run faster than Usain Bolt. We'll give him that one too.
And we can just about accept that there would be no way off the runway apart from catching up with the plane. Of course, we do have to wonder why they have motorbikes up there if the only way out is by plane. Maybe there's a hidden road that we can't see.
But that still doesn't get round the basic problem. Bond willingly jumps off a cliff expecting to be able to catch up to a falling plane which has a head start on him. And planes with engines running do not fall straight down. Secret agents do.
But, c'mon. let's be realistic. We are all fans here. We make allowances for stuff like this, and for the comedy Russian accents (Borreees?). We even make allowances for Sean Bean trying his best posh accent.
But the worst sin for me has to be the struggling but macho face that Pierce pulls while trying to level the plane off.