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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: 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.
  
  
• 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: 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: The color pattern of the phone box is incorrect for a 25 pair phone line. And the wire position, (IE the 2 wires in the middle of the block) are in the wrong spot. They should be in the far left if they are coming into the block or far right if they are going into the house.
  
  
• Factual errors: When James takes the cap off the tire valve he, air escapes and he puts his mouth over the valve to breathe the oxygen that is escaping. In reality, there is a stem that must be depressed to let air out which would be impossible to do with your mouth over the valve.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond and Sutton are on top of the burning elevator fire burns the cables and it falls down the shaft. In reality a Molotov cocktail can't produce enough heat to burn through heavy steel cables.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is getting the primary explosive hooked to the lift the timer says one minute and some change. It clicks down unrealistically slow as Mayday had to manually crank the lift, the bomb and Bond up to the surface, load the bomb onto a rail cart and push the cart outside the mine entrance before it exploded.
  
  
• Continuity: At the first horse race you see that Pegasus is Grey. Later at Zorin's stables when they are bringing Pegasus out of a horse trailer it is a brown horse. Then a few scenes later when they show Pegasus going into a stall he is Grey again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Stacey hits the intruder on the head with the vase, the breaking sound is heard before the vase actually hits his head.
  
  
• Continuity: After the fight with the intruders, Stacey tells James that the vase contained the ashes of her uncle (it's OK, he always liked a good fight) but when she broke it over the intruder's head, it was clearly empty as no ashes were released.
  
  
• Continuity: When James's car was pushed into the water, the windows were clearly open but when he opened the door under water to get out, they were closed.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond is cooking for Ms. Sutton, Bond incorrectly equates his quiche with an omelet. A quiche is a baked custard-like egg dish made from eggs and milk or cream, and is filled into a pastry shell. An omelet is beaten eggs cooked quickly in butter or oil and filled with various ingredients, so a quiche and an omelet are not the same.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the fight scene below the laboratory, Moore and McNee are fighting the villains, and their punches are not even close to making contact.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond and Tibbett break into the laboratory, Bond does not even have the basic burglar/spy item of gloves, and leaves his fingerprints all over the lab, let alone "announce" his presence by putting the vial back into the wrong spot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is fighting Zorin's men in Sutton's mansion at the top of the stairs, the railing is perfectly precut and gives way as Bond pushes the thug past the railing, with only the slightest pressure.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond is sleeping with the gun in his lap. When he is awoken by Stacy, the gun has changed positions, and Bond is holding it upright.
  
  
• Continuity: Even though it is filled with rock salt, Bond shoots the rifle repeatedly without ever reloading it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond "unties" the fishing line from his legs, if you look closely, there is nothing there to untie at all.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond falls through the roof of the boat onto a wedding cake. He gets up, perfectly clean. Bond should be covered with frosting.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is submerged in the Rolls Royce, there are many bubbles rising up to the surface. When it cuts to the camera shot of the surface of the water, there are no bubbles rising.
  
  
• Continuity: In the mine office, Bond smashes the glass window in the office with a chair. He jumps out. There is no glass down below the window.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond puts the oxygen tank into the turbine, the bottom part of the tank is the part that gets jammed in the fan blade. Notice that the paint is not damaged very much. When Zorin pulls the oxygen tank out of the turbine, the center of the oxygen tank is where it has been cut, and the paint is also badly damaged.
  
  
• Continuity: Zorin and May Day push the car into the water with Bond and Tibbet's body in the car. When Bond is in the car underwater, Tibbet's body has mysteriously disappeared.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Zorin is gunning people down in the underground mine, his mouth is moving as if he is yelling something, but no words are coming out.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Siberians are shooting at Bond in the glacier, a piece of snow kicks up and gets stuck to the camera lens.
  
  
• Continuity: The helicopter crashes into an icy wall and explodes. However, in the next shot, the explosion is over top of the open water.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The iceberg submarine is way too small to have such a large interior.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Inside the iceberg submarine, Bond says something to his assistant like "Be a good girl will you, and put her automatic" but his mouth is not even moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is talking to Dr. Mortner, the same clip of Bond using the "ring camera" to take a picture is re-used from earlier. You can tell because Bond is not holding a champagne glass at the time he takes the picture, but there is a champagne glass in his hand in the shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When May Day military presses the agent over her head, you can see the wires holding him up. You can also tell he is being suspended, because of the way his body is bent in the middle.
  
  
• Continuity: After May Day and Zorin are wrestling, May Day starts to undress. Zorin turns around and May Day has instantly undressed from her gym clothes and re-dressed into her bath robe.
  
  
• Continuity: When Zorin is sneaking up behind Stacy in his blimp, he is far back in the distance. The camera cuts away and then cuts back, and Zorin is right behind her and swoops her up. Not only is the blimp too slow to catch up to her this quickly, but it is also extremely loud and Stacy would have at least heard it, even though she apparently does not hear Bond's warnings either.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Bond and Stacy exit the burning building, there is a fire ladder leading up to the top floor, even though no firefighters are entering the building that way. Also, the firefighters seem to just stand there on the ground and watch Bond and Stacy make their way down the ladder without trying to help them in any way. It seems as though the ladder was just left there and the survivors are responsible for making their own escape.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The interior "meeting room" set is far larger than the cab of the blimp would have room for.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond enters the turbine, there is a crab on the grate, which appears to be dead and lifeless. On his way back out, the crab is gone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the shower, Bond is engaged in a deep lip-lock with Stacy, yet, he laughs "HAHA" very loudly. Obvious over-dubbing.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, the video the surveillance robot is shooting doesn't match up with the direction it is pointed in.
  
  
• Continuity: When the police cars are trying to jump the draw bridge, one car pulls up to the bridge. There is only one officer, the driver. He gets out. It cuts to a different camera angle, and there are two officers getting out of the vehicle, one on each side. Also, the car is initially farther back and facing towards the right. In subsequent shots, the car is closer to the bridge and facing more towards the left.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the warehouse, the amount of crates on the conveyor belt and their position keeps changing.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Obvious stunt man driving during the Paris car chase (plus a boom mike reflected in the car window), and subsequently crashing through the wedding on top of the cake.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): James reconnected Stacy's phone poorly. One wire is moving after he's punched them all down. These are insulation displacing connections, and a loose wire wouldn't work well.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Division of Mines paperwork on Zorin's wells has HAYWOOD written across it. All other references, and the actual fault, are spelled HAYWARD.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Many people in the mining area are not wearing hardhats, in violation of the rule Bond and Stacy were told about.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pola Ivanova sneaks out of the Japanese bath-house with the (wrong) tape, she leaves her clothes and underwear behind in a pile; supposedly, she's wearing only a robe. Outside, the robe slips, and briefs are visible.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bond climbs out of the elevator shaft easily. There is no reason why Stacy can't climb out. Yet, Bond has to come back with a separate rescue for Stacy - using a fire hose as a rope, rather than putting the fire out with it.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Paris car chase scene, Bond is going in reverse down a small set of stairs, but it cuts to a different camera angle and we see Bond is going reverse down a much larger set of stairs, which appear to be in a different area.
  
  
• Plot holes: The police captain's patrol car is hit by a taxi at a major intersection during the fire truck chase, and five other vehicles swerve to avoid a collision. All come from three directions at once with no signs of yielding to each other, and thus would have crashed or swerved anyway had the pursuit not blasted through the intersection to stop them.
  
  

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