Plot hole: Silva spent years planning his revenge against M, yet the ability to carry out his plan depended on conditions that were entirely out of his control, such as being captured by MI-6 despite having no way of knowing that Bond was coming for him, and only escaping custody because Q triggers the Trojan - there's no way Silva could predict when that would happen, could have been hours, days, weeks, or never. He then ambushes M at the courthouse despite having no way of knowing that she would be there that day.
XIII
11th Mar 2013
Skyfall (2012)
9th Nov 2012
Skyfall (2012)
Corrected entry: On the boat to meet Silva. Bond takes the radio, switches it on, and puts it in his right pocket. After Silva has shot the girl and when the helicopters arrive to arrest him, Bond pulls out the radio from his left pocket.
3rd Nov 2012
Skyfall (2012)
Corrected entry: When the helicopter is flying towards Bond's old house, it is generally light outside. Just before Silva lands, it is already night.
Correction: 'Generally light' is a big over-statement. It is clear during the raid that the sun is well into 'sunset.' Silva would have planned the raid this way given the limited visibility at night. There are tall mountains at a distance in the surrounding the area, so when you look up at the approaching helicopter is may appear to be daylight but when it reaches the house it would be much darker.
9th Nov 2012
Skyfall (2012)
Corrected entry: When Bond is on the tube train he looks at the underground map to see where Silva is going. They get on at Temple, get off at Embankment, the next stop, but after a short foot chase Silva comes above ground at Embankment, after dropping the train on Bond, but Bond comes above ground at Westminster, then proceeds to run up Whitehall.
Correction: After they get off at Embankment the chase leads them towards Westminster, the explosion (and the train wreck) obviously blocks Bond's path from chasing Silva any further. Bond already know Silva is heading towards Westminster so he heads there directly through the underground instead of trying to make his way through the wreckage, climb up and then head towards Westminster anyway.
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Suggested correction: His plan was always to blow a hole in the tube to have a train crash at that location. This would have caused mayhem and take up a lot of resources (police/ambulance/fire). Bond chasing him had no impact on this part of the plan. Then when his team picked him up, his team would have known where M would have been on that day and would have driven him there. With resources on high at the train crash site, it would have made it easier to reach M.
XIII
This aspect is a bit of a plot hole for me too - one of the factors outside Silva's control is when he can escape MI6 custody, which depends on when Q triggers the 'Granborough' Trojan, which Q only spots with a bit of help from Bond. That triggering could have been hours, days, weeks or never - pretty fraught with risk to rely on individual(s) making that happen at a plot-convenient moment... otherwise Silva has a bunch of associates hanging around London for a few days permanently on a few minutes alert for a random event.