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A View to a Kill (1985)

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• Crew or equipment visible: During the fire engine chase in San Francisco, on the back end of the truck you can see two crew members with a camera.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fire engine chase, when James becomes tillerman, the ladder is locked.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the scene with Lee, Bond, and Stacy at Stacy's house there is an outside shot of the front of the house. The shot has two cars in the drive way. When Lee comes out of the house, there is a third car there, just behind Bond's Ford.
  
  

• Continuity: In the Golden Gate Bridge scene, the boats consistently change position. First, a wake passes and a small boat is seen on the left most part of the screen for a split second. Two shots later, that same boat is seen entering from the right side. Moments later, a cargo ship is exiting the right side of the screen. Two shots later it is seen entering from the left side.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When MayDay pushes Bond's Rolls Royce into the water, a cable that pulls the Rolls into the water is visible for a moment.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Boom mike reflected in the car window when Bond drives off in the taxi at the Eiffel Tower.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt man driving during the Paris car chase.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the Paris chase, Bond drives the front half of a car which apparently still runs. This is impossible even with front wheel drive because the gas tank would be in the back. The brakes would also no longer work because the lines would have been cut.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Zorin's safety harness is visible as he pulls Stacey into his blimp.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Max Zorin falls from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge he is on the Sausalito side, but when he hits the water he is on the San Francisco side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond's safety harness is visible as he flips over the railing of the Eiffel Tower.
  
  
• Continuity: When James is chasing May Day up the Eiffel Tower, she turns around and whips a fishing line at him, which sends him sprawling over the rail. As he is suspended upside-down halfway over the railing, his legs are spread apart, however when he regains his balance and begins unwinding the fishing line, his legs are now bound together.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When May Day tells James that she has to hold the brake, the audio does not match her lips.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is using the fire hose to pull Stacey up from the burning elevator shaft, there is a patch of flames immediately below him which would certainly impede her progress, but when the camera angle switches to show her from his point of view, there are no flames.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When May Day jumps off the Eiffel Tower, she is about halfway up in the tower after being chased up the stairs, but when the jump is viewed from below, it is obviously made from the top of the tower. A special platform made for jumping is clearly visible mounted on top of the Eiffel Tower.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Rolls Royce is sinking into the lake the windows are open, but are closed when it is underwater.
  
  
• Continuity: The recorded conversation between Max Zorin and Bob Conley in the dock warehouse does not match the actual conversation.
  
  
• Continuity: Angle of the drawbridge when the officer looks down at the patrol cars beneath them.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflected in the side windows of the goons' limousine as it leaves Stacey's house following the fight.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond attempts to free himself of May Day's wire in the Eiffel Tower. He is seen holding his gun when he goes to reach the wire. In the close-up shot, he is shown freeing himself with both hands and no gun. The next shot has him back holding the gun.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Flipped image: when Bond is hanging from the ladder of the fire truck, he knocks the hats off men in a white Cadillac, which appears to be driven from the right side.
  
  
• Continuity: Zorin's shoes change between shots at the end of the movie.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just after Stacey has climbed out of the mineshaft, a shot of the airship coming over the edge of the quarry towards the camera shows a crew member lurking in the bushes immediately below.
  
  
• Continuity: After Pola Ivanova sneaks out of the baths, she climbs into the car with General Gogol; however, there is clearly a different actor behind the wheel.
  
  
• Continuity: The locomotive that Scarpine drives/rides in the quarry throughout the mine sequence has an all green radiator, but when he and Zorin come out of the mine, the top of the radiator is black.
  
  
• Errors in geography: A British registered airship (indicated by a registration beginning "G-") is highly unlikely to be flying around in the US (all of the shots of the airship which show the registration number clearly visible were filmed in the UK).
  
  
• Continuity: At the Golden Gate Bridge, Stacey is missing when Bond and Zorin are fighting, there are inconsistencies in the ships sailing underneath and then when Stacey and Bond are together at the end, the fire axe has disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: Mr Howe's office exit-only office door is marked "Divisions of Oil and Mines" during the corridor shots and when James goes out, but is marked "Division of Oil and Mines" when Stacey leaves.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: A sound of an airplane crashing is played as the helicopter is spinning out of control in the opening fight sequence.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When May Day is winching James Bond and the bomb out of the mine shaft, the cogs of the winch are not moving.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just as Zorin pulls Stacey into the Airship you can see a large number of crew reflected in the Airships windscreen. The next windscreen shot shows a guy in a white shirt clearly visible.
  
  
• Continuity: At the drawbridge, with the cop cars having crashed into each other sliding down the raised bridge, the operator makes a move to lower the bridge. But the motion of the counterweight crushing the police captain's car is indicative of the bridge raising, not lowering.
  
  
• Continuity: The locomotive seen outside in the quarry has a higher exhaust pipe above the muffler, in the mine interior sequence filmed at Pinewood the pipe has been cut down to clear the tunnel roof.
  
  
• Continuity: The Rolls Royce has blackwall tires. However, after it has been pushed underwater the tires are clearly marked Michelin in bold white letters in the scenes where Bond is using the air in one to breathe.
  
  
• Continuity: In Zorin's blimp conference, he tosses microchips onto the table which fall onto the map that comes out of the table top. When the map rises the microchips are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene on the blimp where Max Zorin is explaining plan "Main Strike", Mayday can be seen in the background with her sunglasses on and then in her hand without enough time to remove them.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight scene in Stacy's mansion lobby, she crashes the urn over one of the bad guys. There are no ashes in the urn, unless they're somewhere else.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the dinner, when James is reconnecting the phone, you see one of the wires moving after he's punched them down. These are insulation displacing connections, and a loose wire wouldn't work well.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond jumps onto the boat and crashes through the glass ceiling and onto the cake, it is clearly a stuntman.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Tibett enter Mortner's lab by the horse-elevator, the light of the elevator isn't low enough to see the silhouettes you see in the elevator windows.
  
  
• Continuity: Just after Zorrin shoots Howe, his accomplice Jenny Flex enters behind Bond, then turns to leave again. In the next shot, she is still facing Bond, and once more starts to turn.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Zorin floods the fault, the explosive charge in the lake is visible for a few frames before detonation.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just before the Rolls Royce is pushed into the water - you can hear one of the crew say - "mind that door".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When a man is thrown out of Zorin's airship, it is clearly a dummy falling into the water below. Especially the legs look unnatural.
  
  

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