What are Mr. White`s/Quantum men doing in this sequence? Are they trying to rescue Mr. White? If so, why are they shooting at the Aston? Perhaps they`re aim is to disable the Aston, force it off the road and rescue White that way, but there is also the possibility that, trying to achieve this, the machine gun fire could hit White in the car`s boot, thus killing him, and defeating the object of his rescue in the first place. Likewise the same thing could occur if the Aston was forced off the road and White was killed in the resulting crash. Yes, it`s possible that White could have survived if the Aston had crashed, but in planning the operation, would Quantum have taken a 50/50 chance on it going the way they wanted, i.e. White`s survival?
If the attack on the Aston was to rescue White, why was Mitchell already in Italy, waiting to rescue White from the forthcoming MI6 interrogation? Some will defend this by saying that a back up plan was required, but wouldn`t it have been better for the Quantum organisation to have had just Mitchell rescue White in the MI6 building? As it turned out, the MI6 building was the best environment in which to rescue White, because Mitchell was able to control the situation better, unlike the Aston attack on an open, winding road, where just about anything could have happened.
Likewise, if the attack on the Aston was to kill White, (thus preventing him from revealing anything about the Quantum organisation to MI6) why, shortly afterwards, did Mitchell help White escape? Why didn`t Mitchell just shoot White there and then?
As an exciting action packed sequence, the car chase works for me. As a logical sequence of events taking place just after Bond meets White at the end of CR, it doesn`t.
Anyone else agree/disagree?
Best
Andy
Edited by Auric64, 20 May 2010 - 09:30 AM.