Goofs for
The World Is Not Enough (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: In the boat battle, Bond fires the upper torpedo twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Renard are having a firefight in the missile silo, Bond wounds Renard's left arm with his sub-machine gun. Later on in that scene Renard is uninjured.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bond's BMW is destroyed at the end; the car seen at the end (when he's on vacation) is actually his original Aston Martin DB5.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bond drives his speedboat through the market during the boat chase scene, a view from the driver's perspective shows food and debris striking what is apparently a windshield. While his boat has no windshield, the police car following (whose perspective we see) does.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In Bond's barrel roll in the film's beginning chase sequence, the stunt driver's helmet is seen.
  
  
• Continuity: In one shot during the caviar building action sequence, Bond opens a hatch and climbs out onto the dock, with an empty gun (the slide on his pistol is locked back), and yet he fires it above him, shooting out the feet of the man above him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond's stuntman's face clearly seen while tumbling down the stairs at the caviar factory.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the boat chase, after the boat hits the passanger jetty a camera on a boom can be seen on a boat as the boat speeds away. (DVD Widescreen Version)
  
  
• Continuity: The helicopter supposedly cannot land because of severe wind. When James and Electra disembark on their skis, the only wind action seen is that caused by the helicopter's own rotor, and the pilot manages to keep the helicopter still while hovering.
  
  
• Continuity: After M asks Elektra, "What's the time?", Elektra's body guard Gabor is seen to close the door to M's cell at Maiden's Tower. However, about a minute later, Gabor is all the way across the harbor in Istanbul where he and Elektra's henchmen take Bond and Dr. Jones captive.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the casino scene, Bond remarks "Nothing comes free from you, Zukovsky." However, Bond's lips do not mouth the word "Zukovsky," but the word "Valentin".
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the opening boat chase, the route actually taken through London's Isle of Dogs does not match the route displayed on Bond's on-board computer map. Specifically: The map shows the route through West India Docks, but the chase is obviously through Millwall Inner and Outer Docks. Further, the boats come out of what is, in reality, a dead end.
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the beginning of the movie, it is said the bullet traveling through Renard's brain is in his medulla oblongata, thus killing his senses. This area of the brain controls basic functions such as breathing and heart rate, not the sensory perceptions.
  
  
• Factual errors: It is extremely difficult to move a limb that is devoid of feeling, and a man who has no sensation anywhere in his body would need to learn how to move all over again; he would likely move very stiffly and awkwardly, and we don't see that.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is tied to the torture chair, the left side of his shirt collar is caught in the throat shackle. It's soon in the normal position after.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the boat chase, when the Cigar Girl blows up the balloon, you see Bond rolling down the building; all his hair is wild and uncombed. When he grabs the wire and stops, his hair is nicely combed down and a few hairs in front are a little wild.
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the movie, when Cigar Girl is shooting at bond, she is facing backwards during the close-up shots, but facing forwards during the wide shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the boat chase, when Cigar Girl's Sunseeker boat hits the shore below the Dome, it is clearly low tide. The boat beaches quite a way short of the river wall. Seconds later when Bond's boat jumps over the Sunseeker, it is clearly high tide and the Sunseeker's bow is now touching the river wall.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Lacking appropriate safety systems, a rod of weapons grade plutonium probably would cause a meltdown in a reactor. While it wouldn't technically be an explosion, it would be a massive release of energy, so that's a fair enough word, especially when used by the non-expert, Bond.
  
  
• Continuity: During the caviar factory battle, Bond hides behind a table, holding his P99 pistol as he yells, "Get out!" to Valentin and Christmas. After a cutaway, Bond is holding a machine gun, then after another, he fires the original pistol.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Russian Atomic Energy Commission plane has a French registration number.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A price tag is clearly visible inside a supposedly old and rusty lamp hanging above the table in the room where M is held prisoner.
  
  
• Factual errors: Numerous scientific liberties taken regarding radioactive substances and nuclear reactors.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the camera crane is visible when Bobby's car breaks down.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A remote head camera crane is visible during the opening boat chase (as the lead speedboat destroys the pier on left-hand bank, the wide shot reveals crane in the top left corner).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While in the caviar factory, Bond fires his P99 at the Renard goons, and the slide of the gun can be seen going back three times, but we hear only two shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is speaking with M in her office, he sets down his drink a fair distance from the "stolen report". An immediate close-up shows the drink within a couple of inches of the report.
  
  
• Continuity: The sash on M's outfit after she is kidnapped disappears and reappears in the same sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: In the MI6 opening sequence we see a hole blown in the face of the building when the money explodes. When Bond launches the jet boat, the hole is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the Russian submarine surfaces below the tower in Istanbul, a wide shot shows the ship it used for cover going by the tower, built on a very small island, considerably smaller than the ship. In the next shot the submarine is surfacing in a hall which is at least twice as long as the whole island.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the caviar factory, just as a helicopter cuts through several pipes, Bond is seen moving to and leaning against a vertical pipe. As he contacts one of the pipes it visibly wobbles.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Millennium Dome chase sequence, just before Bond jumps from Q's fishing boat to the balloon, the canopy on the boat is present. When Bond actually makes the jump, the canopy has disappeared without explanation.
  
  
• Continuity: During the caviar factory scene, you see the helicopter hovering above Bond's BMW. The helicopter has the blades suspended beneath it, but when Bond destroys the helicopter, the blades are no longer there.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the missile silo, Bond is holding his silenced pistol in one hand and Dr. Jones in the other. Together they jump into a shallow pit; when they land, Bond is holding two pistols.
  
  
• Continuity: When M is in the tower and talking with Renard, the position of the sash on her shoulder changes between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the gun barrel sequence, Bond walks down a street in Bilbao and you can see an old lady hiding and looking at him as well as the fans (some flashing cameras) being held back by a steel fence so that they don't walk in the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gabor captures Bond on Istanbul he used a Ruger P95 pistol. When he reaches the Maiden's Tower and places his gun on the desk it's now a Colt 1911.
  
  
• Continuity: In the end chase sequence the missiles are fired on after the other. When it shows them traveling underwater they are traveling side-by-side at the same speed yet they still manage to hit the boat one after the other.
  
  
• Continuity: During the game of High Card, while Elektra is being dealt her card, Zukovsky's card is visible in his hand. During the next shot he is being dealt a card.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Electra King claims to be of azeri descent on her maternal side. Thus she thinks she is saving her cultural heritage by rerouting the pipeline around the church. But the church as proved by the priest is Russian orthodox and that is far removed from azeri culture.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Renard first come face-to-face at the silo, Bond puts his pistol on Renard's temple. When the camera cuts on Renard's line, "I did spare your life at the banker's office," the gun has changed position to Renard's forehead.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond jumps out of the pipe after the explosion, his jacket sleeves are both half-way up his arms, yet in the immediately following shot his jacket is perfect.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jones is waiting for the indicator to turn red, the button cover is closed. However, when she goes to press the button the cover is open but she gets pushed away. When she again goes to press the button, the cover is closed again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene where Bond has Renard at gun point, his positioning of the gun moves throughout the different shots.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The protesters at the church are waving Hungarian flags, not Azerbaijani ones.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elektra is talking to M via the web cam, she is wearing a white top on screen as M can see her, yet when the camera shows Elektra closing her laptop, she is wearing a purple top and silk gown.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the submarine scene, Bond and Jones escape from the rearward torpedo tube right before the explosion splits the sub in two. Yet when they are on the surface and waving to the tourist boat, the ocean is dead calm. With all the air escaping from the sub below them, the surface should look like it is boiling, and would draw serious attention from a passing boat.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Renard retracts the shield of the nuclear reactor in the submarine we see the reactor control rods are all fixed to the shield. This is an unlikely design as control rods are required by all nuclear reactors to manage and limit the reaction rate within the reactor. Most reactors require a minimum number of rods inserted to prevent runaway meltdown (the Chernobyl meltdown was caused when too many rods were removed from the reactor during an experiment). Control rods should all be individually mounted so that they can be inserted and retracted at will based on the amount of power needed. If they were all mounted together like in the film the reactor would shut down every time the shield was closed. Since the submarine's reactor did not shutdown immediately on removal of all the rods we can assume it has no safety feature or automatic SCRAM mechanism to prevent meltdown. By removing all of the control rods at once the reactor should have immediately started to overheat and eventually meltdown. It would have cooling mechanisms but assuming Renard was clever enough to disable them, they wouldn't be able to cool the reactor indefinitely. Renard went to all the trouble of stealing weapons grade plutonium to put in the reactor to cause a meltdown when all he needed to do was retract the control rods.
  
  
• Plot holes: In the pipeline sequence we see that someone has reprogrammed a remote control drone, so Bond goes into the pipeline on another drone ahead of the 'stolen' drone in order to intercept it. Firstly, how could another drone be in the pipeline? If it was in the pipeline ahead of the 'stolen' one, then the 'stolen' one would never reach its target as it would crash into the one that Bond uses. Secondly, both drones have on board controls and speedometers, why have this if they are remote control drones only used to test the integrity of the pipe?
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Helicopter with the saw blades is cutting through the BMW, the amount of sparks would have set off the gas tanks blowing the car up. Even if it didn't, after the car was cut in half there was no fluids of any type dripping from the car. No gas, oil, anti-freeze, etc.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): It is stated that the bomb traveling in the pipeline is traveling at 70 miles per hour and has to cover a distance of 106 miles. Bond states that this will take 78 minutes. To cover 106 miles at 70 miles per hour would actually take 91 minutes. However, Bond admits in GoldenEye (1995) that he was never good with numbers.
  
  
• Factual errors: In final scenes where the sub is nose down the position of reactor would make it on the ceiling when the ship is sailing upright.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond skis over the top of the para-hawk, and "slices" the parachute open, this scene is filled with errors. First of all, in the initial shot, his trajectory is way off, and he completely misses the parachute. Second of all, it cuts to a shot where the ski slices the parachute open, and the hole it makes is a long, wide hole. When it cuts to the next shot, there is only a very small, round hole in the chute, and the edge of the parachute is also frayed, despite Bond having done nothing to the edge of the parachute.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Electra are trapped inside the inflatable shield, it is dark. Bond turns on the lights on his wristwatch, and the entire place lights up. Bond moves around around a lot, but the lighting does not change at all, revealing that the lighting is coming from a different source.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Jones assures Bond that he doesn't need any kind of protection before entering the base. Moments later, she stops him, and reminds him to put on his radiation tag before entering.
  
  
• Continuity: In the underground base, when Bond is rushing to get to the door, it is almost completely shut. In the next shot, when Bond is diving through the door, it is only about half shut, giving him enough time to jump through it before it closes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is traveling down the pipeline there are lights on the inside of the pipe. No pipeline would be built with lights inside it.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the opening scene in Bilbao, Spain, after the shots, police sirens are heard, and several cars of the Spanish national police are seen through the window, at several different times. When the police enter the office, however, the uniform worn by the agents is not the one from the Spanish national police, but from the Basque police force, which would not have jurisdiction over this type of event.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the pre-credits boat chase, just before Cigar Girl's Sunseeker crashes outside the Millennium Dome, the first-person view from the boat reveals that the broken railings on the wall which are seemingly caused by the boat's nose, are in fact broken prior to impact.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The acronym for the "Russian Atomic Energy Agency" is written in Greek (Alpha Sigma Delta), not Cyrillic (Russian) characters. The real name of this agency is Minatom.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Plutonium is very dense (19.8 grams per cubic centimeter) and a hemisphere of the size depicted couldn't be handled as if it were made of foam.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The engine on one of the parahawks can be heard to be having trouble even though Bond only managed to damage the parachute.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When displaying the gadget-coat to Bond, R uses the American term "zippers". The British term is "zips".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Bond jumps through the door in the underground shootout, we see a brief shot of him bounding headfirst through a door, with his gun outstretched. Closer inspection reveals that the gun was discharging during this jump, but no sound is heard.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Bond enters the submarine, he threatens a crewman by holding an M1911 type pistol with the hammer down at the crewman's head. The gun cannot fire in this aspect and it does not make sense that Bond would enter a hostile submarine so disarmed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A newspaper report on King has a sentence making no sense: "Both companies will benefit from the takeover. It means few neither jobs nor profits will be lost."
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Renard talks about Hindu pilgrims holding scalding rocks to "test their devotion to God." There is no such tradition.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Renard holds the scalding rock, it burns his skin to the point where smoke comes out. After he lets go of the rock, there is not a mark on his hand. Despite the fact that he cannot "feel pain" his hand would still be visibly burned very badly.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Near the end of the movie just before 007 boards the submarine, Elektra is handed the walkie talkie at gunpoint and ordered to call off Renard. When 007 says this, the camera, while facing him, shows him with his gun raised however when the screen shifts to Elektra, only his arm with the walkie talkie in hand is shown raised.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: The plot never explains who was behind the para-hawk attack, or the reasoning behind it. It is revealed later on that Elektra is the true villain of the movie, however, it would make no sense for her to pay the attackers to try and kill herself and Bond. It also makes no sense for Renard to be behind the attack, since he loves Elektra.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: Bond was wearing a white shirt (and a suit) before killing Elektra. Right after killing her, he rushes to the underground dock for submarine and jumps into the water. Next he is shown wearing a blue shirt in which he gets into the submarine.
  
  

Related Links