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End of Days (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Father Kovak writes down '666' on a sheet of paper to illustrate how it is '999' when upturned. In the next shot it is quite clearly a different piece of paper with a different '666' on it.
  
  
• Continuity: Christine's bathrobe when she's being attacked in her closet.
  
  
• Continuity: After the priests have tried to kill Christine at her home, Jericho is seen walking behind her. One shot the white door behind is open but when the frame changes to Jericho the door is shut and then back open in the next shot.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jericho reads Revelations 20:7 aloud (some were unable to identify it).
  
  
• Continuity: When Jericho jumps on one of the Knights in Christine's bedroom, he knocks a panel out of the open door next to her bed. In the next scene where he is talking with her about her past, the panel has been replaced and the door is shut, but is open again in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jericho follows the priest through the door in St John's church, there is a stairwell behind it turning to the left, leading into the basement. Yet moments before, when we see the door from the other side, it leads into a room on the right. Also, in these two shots, the door opens to different sides.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jericho and Chicago are searching for Christine in the database the computer reads the same files several times. Even Christine's record appears once or twice before it is finally found.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Glock handguns do not have external hammers to pull back. In several scenes, Jericho can be heard pulling back a hammer on his pistols.
  
  
• Factual errors: A voice-over news announcer reports that blood has been seen coming from the hands of the infant Christ child in the sculpture "The Pieta". However, "The Pieta" does not depict the infant Jesus - it is a statue of Mary holding the dead body of the adult Jesus.
  
  
• Factual errors: Numerous problems with the notion that the Millennium begins at midnight Eastern Standard Time on 1 January 2000 . The millennium begins the first second of the first hour of the first year, which would be 12:00:01 Jan. 1, 2001. But the human clock is not necessarily the same clock that Satan uses, and he may not recognize our time zones or daylight savings.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Christine gets out of the shower, we hear the director cue her by saying, "Go," before she walks past the camera.
  
  
• Factual errors: One of the symbols leading Satan (Gabriel Byrne) to his subjects is a pentagram with three of its arms facing upwards. A pentagram with three of its arms facing upwards is *not* a symbol of Satanism. It is a symbol of the Wiccan faith, and Wiccans do not believe in the Devil. A pentagram with two of its arms facing upwards and the other three facing downwards is a symbol of Satanism.
  
  
• Plot holes: It is said that the Mark of the Beast is "666" but in Apocalypse it was to be inverted, so the real Mark is "999". In the time of St. John number "6" was not in use; it is an Arabic sign and came to use several centuries later.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the opening credits several sections of text scroll past in various languages. The last is a section of Hebrew which is clearly upside down.
  
  
• Factual errors: Subway cars do not have big levers on the outside that will uncouple the cars.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the subway car an ad for Crazy Eddie's electronics store chain is seen on the wall. The electronics chain went bankrupt and was liquidated in 1989.
  
  
• Factual errors: In talking about the End of Days, Father John says that the Gregorian Monks created the Gregorian Calendar in order to be able to correctly identify when the Apocalypse was going to happen (1999). In reality, there is no such monastic order as the Gregorian Monks. The Gregorian calendar was actually named for Pope Gregory XIII, who was Pope when the calendar was first implemented in 1582. The calendar was adopted because the old Julian calendar was slightly too long, and the date of Easter was slowly drifting forward.
  
  
• Factual errors: The sign on Spota's bar says they sell package goods. New York City doesn't allow bars to sell package goods.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Arnold and Robin enter the church together, Arnold pulls a gun on the priest and we hear the sound for a hammer being cocked. Arnold is using a Glock 9mm which has no hammer.
  
  
• Plot holes: If Satan can just pick a new host when the current one's body is destroyed, why does he bother to hire extra private security like Jericho at the beginning of the movie to protect him from the sniping priest?
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Much importance is attributed to the date being exactly 2000 years since Christ's birth. The exact year is unknown, and even the best historians admit that the Roman calendar (which was established many years after Christ's death) is probably off by more than 10 years. However, one of the clerics in the movie 'reveals' that in the movie's universe, the Gregorian calendar was actually set up by the Catholic church so as to let Satan's return occur at the turn of the millennium.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bobby surprisingly returns after having been burned to death earlier in the explosion/fire of his vehicle, no singe or scorch marks are seen on his clothing - although he had been surrounded by intense flame. However, Bobby did make a deal with the Devil.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: In the final sequence when Satan has over taken Jericho's body, you can hear Jericho screaming for "Christina" to come out of hiding. The character's name is "Christine" not "Christina". However, in German (Arnold's native language), an E at the end of a word is pronounced like an A in English.
  
  

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