- May 19, 2011
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I watched it for the first time yesterday. It seems to me that there are two flaws in the plot:
The more serious one:
Near the end of the film, Logan sees a load of drones fly in the direction that the kids are heading. Considering that this film is based in the future and there's a fair bit of new tech on show, couldn't the drones have been used as part of a stealth strike at night, firing tranquiliser or something fatal at the kids while they slept (like the operation on the mansion in X2), or be used as a surprise strike while they're in the forest? Also, instead of rounding the kids up, why weren't more drastic techniques in use? How on earth did such an op turn into humans running after children with mutant abilities? The film already described how the kids were being killed once they weren't needed any more, and while I can see the need to ensure that no evidence is left behind (so no particularly messy techniques that could leave evidence plastered on nearby flora, making identification difficult and also lengthy cleanup operations), it seems to me that the scriptwriter made the usual mistake of "let's capture all the good guys and put them in an easily escapable situation".
Second, speaking of the easily escapable situation, the girl's absence wasn't noted (surely in a 'no evidence' situation, they would have checked off each captured kid on a list or something?), and she was able to sneak up on the troops? Heh?
Both flaws strike me as the result of the scriptwriter's need to have Logan die in a violent finale. The first flaw also played against a running theme in the film being "don't stop to rest, you have to keep moving", then the bad guys apparently think, "you know what, we can wait until the morning", and for some reason they know exactly where and when the children are going despite the fact that they only had the co-ordinates of where the children were staying, and the drones weren't searching a wide area, they all went in a group in the direction the children were going, and it's logical that the drones weren't used to search the buildings where Logan slept because the vehicles were already on their way to the forest.
Near the end of the film, Logan sees a load of drones fly in the direction that the kids are heading. Considering that this film is based in the future and there's a fair bit of new tech on show, couldn't the drones have been used as part of a stealth strike at night, firing tranquiliser or something fatal at the kids while they slept (like the operation on the mansion in X2), or be used as a surprise strike while they're in the forest? Also, instead of rounding the kids up, why weren't more drastic techniques in use? How on earth did such an op turn into humans running after children with mutant abilities? The film already described how the kids were being killed once they weren't needed any more, and while I can see the need to ensure that no evidence is left behind (so no particularly messy techniques that could leave evidence plastered on nearby flora, making identification difficult and also lengthy cleanup operations), it seems to me that the scriptwriter made the usual mistake of "let's capture all the good guys and put them in an easily escapable situation".
Second, speaking of the easily escapable situation, the girl's absence wasn't noted (surely in a 'no evidence' situation, they would have checked off each captured kid on a list or something?), and she was able to sneak up on the troops? Heh?
Both flaws strike me as the result of the scriptwriter's need to have Logan die in a violent finale. The first flaw also played against a running theme in the film being "don't stop to rest, you have to keep moving", then the bad guys apparently think, "you know what, we can wait until the morning", and for some reason they know exactly where and when the children are going despite the fact that they only had the co-ordinates of where the children were staying, and the drones weren't searching a wide area, they all went in a group in the direction the children were going, and it's logical that the drones weren't used to search the buildings where Logan slept because the vehicles were already on their way to the forest.
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