Fifth Avenue Forum

The entire movie is dependent on the bad guys ignoring their own intelligence on " Kaplan". We find out almost immediately that Vandamm knows Kaplan (who they believe to be a government agent) already has passage booked to Rapid City, SD, which is the exact piece of random-ass podunkery where their lair is located. Like........... maybe kick this one over to Plan B fellas. But nope, the movie ends in South Dakota. Even if they had killed Kaplan/Thornhill at the beginning, the "US Intelligence Agency" apparently already knows the bad guys will be at Mount Rushmore by the end of the week with plans to leave the country. Everything that happens in the movie is entirely incidental to the outcome as regards Vandamm. And yet the coppers seemed prepared to let him vamoose until Thornhill rescued Eve. The feds were nowhere to be seen before our heroes started climbing down Rushmore. Here's a thought: Maybe the instant the airplane's wheels come to a stop after landing, swarm the f**king place. But no.

The whole crop duster scene - among the most iconic 4 minutes in movies - makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Vandamm thinks Thornhill is Kaplan, but the whole point of the remote meeting is Thornhill wants to meet Kaplan. So the bad guys arrange the meeting............... who do they think is meeting who? Kaplan wants to meet himself? Thankfully, the villains are well-connected in the assassin crop duster pilot community and can quickly cobble together an impromptu death by strafing run.

How does the Professor get in contact with Eve to arrange the cafeteria incident?