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Biggest plot hole (spoilers?)

posted 7 years ago by Jerico1974
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I'm sure someone's thought of this before but I couldn't find it in the discussion thread.

If Cage starts over each day with only his memory of the other day's experiences, what about his muscle memory and definition? Are we to assume that his ability to be an ultimate soldier and command his body and the mech suit only exists in his mind??

every day he is born again a physically soft officer who can barely walk in the exo-suit (as seen in the first iteration), but somehow after repeated experiences he's a grunt prodigy despite his soft officer body. How is this possible? Does the time-travel experience carry over his phyiscal progress? I think not. Prove me wrong. Otherwise, great movie :)

[–] TyrionForPresident 7 years ago

I don't think his muscles physically adapted during the loops, and I don't recall seeing any evidence in the film that they did so. He had difficulty using the suit the first time not because he wasn't strong enough to use it (it's powered and moves itself to match the wearer's movements) but because he had never been in one before and wasn't accustomed to it. He got better not because he became physically stronger, but because with an immense amount of practice, he honed his experience, knowledge, reflexes, fortitude, confidence, boldness, and so on. The suit provided the strength; he just had to learn how to use it.

[–] Jerico1974 7 years ago

I agree that a huge about of his progress would be in his mind, but we have to assume that a man in his position wouldn't be nearly in the shape that the soldiers would be in since they train all day every day up until the battle. Think about all those training scenes with the those spinny robots. Trained reflexes and coordination involve physical strengthening on top of mental strengthening.

So maybe it's not the biggest plot hole, but it is at least a minor one.

[–] TyrionForPresident 7 years ago

Maybe. But they never actually show him getting physically stronger or buffer, or bothering to work out in a strength training sense, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[–] SpiltPersonality 7 years ago

I agree with Tyrion,

I hear what you're saying, and there is probably an argument there, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief (and I'm pretty hard on my suspend disbelief meter :) ).

If he was an ordinary soldier (i.e. not augmented) then I'd agree with you, but he is almost a 'matrix style' plug in on the suit. All strength and physical traits are taken over by the suit.

That's my take on it anyway.

SpiltPersonality