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• Revealing mistakes: When Bond gets away across the lake in the jet-powered ice racer, the cable pulling it along is clearly visible in the overhead shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Aston Martin is flipped, its wing mirror housing is smashed off (and a piece of it flicks away), but the car has intact wing mirrors in all the subsequent shots inside the Ice Palace.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Graves holds Bond captive, and reveals that Bond has again been betrayed, a henchman can be seen behind Graves holding a G36 assault rifle. There is no magazine loaded into the weapon.
  
  

• Continuity: A metal strut in the broken aircraft window repeatedly disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond inspects his sword twice in rapid succession (unnaturally so) before the fencing match.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in Miranda's sunglasses during the initial demonstration of the Icarus satellite.
  
  
• Continuity: Following the Icarus demonstration, there is a woman wearing a fur coat standing behind Bond who is not wearing sunglasses. In a subsequent wide shot, she removes her glasses along with other members of the audience.
  
  
• Continuity: The zip on Jinx's catsuit moves up and down between shots during the laser sequence.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A boat is visible in the lower right corner of the screen filming the three surfers in the opening sequence.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jinx is pressing buttons in the airplane cockpit, the lights next to the buttons are going out before she presses them.
  
  
• Factual errors: Some of the supposedly native North Koreans speak Korean with terrible accents.
  
  
• Factual errors: Zao is not a Korean name, it is Chinese. Although many Koreans do have Chinese names, written with Chinese characters, and although Zao is one of them, the Koreans have no "z" sound in their own language and pronounce the name as "Jo" or "Cho".
  
  
• Errors in geography: Korea, whether North or South, does not have surfable beaches.
  
  
• Continuity: The level of the drink Bond and Jinx share.
  
  
• Factual errors: The camouflage uniforms of North Korean Soldiers are actually South Korean civilian reservist uniforms.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Wheel tracks from earlier takes visible early in the ice-lake car chase.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While in Cuba, Bond pulls the plug on the surveillance camera facing the hidden door. The wire he unplugs is only the zoom control and the iris control for the lens Without this wire the lens will protect itself by closing. The camera will still work, but the image will be completely black (closed lens).
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bond and Zao are swapped in the middle of a thick evergreen forest. Panmunjom, the only point along the DMZ where one can walk between North and South Korea, is grassy fields and hills.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Bond orders the Mojito in Cuba, they make it with golden rum, but when the drink is handed to him, it has been (correctly) made with white rum.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Icelandic car number plates shown in the film do not have the correct typeface (they used the same typeface as on British number plates).
  
  
• Continuity: Jinx is cut on her torso during the sword fight on the plane. Yet, moments later, when she is with Bond in the Korean hut fiddling with diamonds in her belly, the cut is gone and she is scar-less.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bond is talking to M in the subway there is a shot over Bond's shoulder that shows his mouth moving when he is not speaking.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jinx comes out of the water, she is wet (obviously). However, when we see her again just a couple of seconds later, she is dry.
  
  
• Continuity: The cheque that Jinx gives to Dr. Alvarez is different to the one seen a few shots later. The handwriting is different and the surname has changed from Johnson to Jordan.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond lands after surfing the huge pressure wave, the clouds behind him multiply between shots from a few to a sky-full.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The camera is reflected in the back of the Aston Martin in two different shots when Bond carries Jinx out of the car after saving her.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond escapes from Graves' lair by running down the outside of the dome, the stuntman appears to be wearing sunglasses, while Brosnan, in the shots immediately before and after the stunt, is not.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond escapes and jumps from the boat, his hands are clearly visible at the bottom of the screen after he rebounds from the trampoline.
  
  
• Continuity: After the Icarus demonstration, a blond henchman walks up to the laptop to close it with a black haired henchman to his left. After the close up of Bond, we see that the two henchmen have switched places.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Crew members, almost lined up, are reflected in Bond's binoculars at the beach bar as he looks out to sea. (These are not extras at the beach bar, as subsequent shots reveal only a couple of sparsely populated tables within the vicinity.)
  
  
• Continuity: Jinx starts to cut into a whole green fig in bed. In the next shot she is slicing a half of a guava in two once more (creating two quarters of the original whole).
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Lighting equipment is reflected in the land-speed-record car before Bond pitches it over the ice cliff. Suspended vertically on the ice cliff, the camera and the back soundstage wall are visible, likewise reflected in its screen.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond's shadow as he rides the ice wave jumps about inconsistently on the water's surface.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The chandelier misses Zao, landing in the water well in front of him.
  
  
• Continuity: During the ice car chase, the rear bumper of Bonds Vanquish is plain silver but, entering the Ice Palace two black strips appear on the bumper and stay for the whole Ice Palace section.
  
  
• Continuity: The large plane that Graves uses to escape is an Anotnov 124, this plane has a solid nose that lifts up to allow loading front and back, when they go inside to the front of the plane it has changed into a IL-76.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the demonstration of Icarus, the control box is taken inside and the doors open before he manages to swipe his card through the reader.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the very end, the night shot of Vauxhall Bridge and MI6 Headquarters has a 2002 built Wright Gemini double deck bus passing in the foreground, the dubbed bus sound however is clearly that of a early 1960s-built Routemaster bus.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bond places the ticket for the Alvarez Clinic in his inner right pocket, only to remove it later from his inner left pocket. This is a deliberate reference to a similar error in a previous Bond film, Licence to Kill (1989).
  
  
• Factual errors: Right-handed James Bond wore a left-handed fencing jacket.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bond first appears on the platform of the abandoned underground station, the door of the stairwell leading down can be heard to slam shut behind him. Wider shots of the platform show that there was, in fact, no door, and that Bond simply appeared on the platform without entering via any door whatsoever.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Jinx get on the Antonov 124 Jinx's gun is a polished chromed Beretta 92. When Miranda disarms Jinx in the cockpit, the gun has become a matte black Beretta 92.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is flirting with Jinx after she emerges from the sea, his cigar is in/out of his mouth between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the hovercraft scene in North Korea, Bond shoots the land-mines and they eject into the air before exploding. Though this is correct, the mines were shown exploding close to head height whereas in reality the mines would explode a waist level or lower so as to cause the most crippling injuries to soldiers.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The ice-fields and glaciers of Iceland are in the center of the country, not near the coast, where it is barren and rocky.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Jinx is in the cockpit of the plane, the cockpit is actually that of the An-225 Myria, not the An-124 fuselage/Il-76 nose plane used in the film. This is evident because of the six power levers. The plane in the movie only has four engines.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After escaping from the Royal Navy cruiser and swimming to the shores of Hong Kong, Bond arrives on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong (the background shows Hong Kong Island). However, there is no Yacht Club on Kowloon, only on Hong Kong Island.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond leaps through the window at the clinic he takes a grape from the fruit bowl. When he goes through the door of the room he can be seen chewing and then putting another grape in his mouth and eating that one. However he only picked up one grape and therefore can't have been eating anything originally, despite his mouth moving.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives at the ice palace the valet gets into his car, but never takes it away, and is not in the car in the next shot of the car.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bond is caught by a guard outside Grave's quarters at the Icelandic compound after the Icarus presentation, the guard (oddly) talks to Bond in German, asking him what he'd be doing there and telling him to put his hands up and to turn around. Apart from that, the guard's lips movements do not correspond at all to the German lines that are heard. In fact, he doesn't seem to say anything at all.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While inspecting a borrowed Smith & Wesson revolver in Cuba, Bond opens the cylinder and spins it, resulting in a "ZZZZZZ" of rapid clicks. S&W revolvers make no noise when the cylinder is open and spun in this manner.
  
  
• Factual errors: The cruising speed of the Antonov 124 is approximately 500mph, which equates to nearly 1 mile every 6 seconds. It is very unlikely that cars dumped several seconds apart would land within a couple of hundred yards of each other.
  
  
• Continuity: Upon leaving the clinic, Bond has four diamonds. He then gives five to M.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When M visits Bond after he has been traded for Zao, she unlocks the door to enter his sealed room, then leaves 'locking' the door behind her. However, the light on the door locks remain green (unlocked) after she re-locks them, despite them originally being red when locked, then becoming green upon unlocking.
  
  
• Errors in geography: A water-buffalo witnesses the cars crashing into the rice paddy, supposedly in Korea, where no water-buffaloes live (water-buffaloes are creatures of the tropics; Korea has roughly the latitude and climate of New England.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Colonel Moon is shooting the helicopter a soldier next to him is holding his weapon up, but in one shot it is down and he raises it.
  
  
• Continuity: When bond is "surfing" using the parachute and trunk covering (from the jet powered car), as he reaches the big ice berg which he airs off, he pulls the parachute towards him and his hands are below his waist. In the next shot his hands are above his head
  
  
• Continuity: Bond's glass shattering ring changes hands and sometimes is non-existent throughout the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Bond and Jinx are running to get aboard the Antonov, you hear the engines powering up for takeoff. However as the front of one of the engines comes into shot, it shows that the turbine blades are moving very slowly, as if the engine isn't even running.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond returns to the Ice Palace (after stealing the land speed vehicle) he gets back into to his car. When he approaches the car, just before entering, he hides behind it. However, this would be pointless, as the cameras on his side of the car would project the image of him onto the opposite side, as the car is in 'stealth mode'. Which means any guards who looked would clearly see 007 squatting in the snow.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Bond and Jinx take over the plane in the 3rd act, Jinx enters the cockpit after one of the two pilots goes to the bathroom. She takes out the second pilot and controls the plane until Miranda enters and starts a fight with Jinx. However, the fisrt pilot stays in the bathroom for the rest of the flight, even when the plane is shook up by Icarus' laser beam.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and his buddies surf out of the sea onto land and pushes the head covering back, you notice his hair is soaking wet, which would be correct if he's wearing a wet suit, a few seconds later when they go to "meet" the landing helicopter and unzip their suits, they're fully dressed and dry underneath- this would be correct if they were wearing dry suits, but his hair wouldn't be wet if he was wearing this kind of suit.
  
  
• Factual errors: 007 is not wearing the correct fencing uniform during his match. He is right-handed, and therefore the zipper should be on his left side. Also, the jacket he is wearing stops at the waist. These jackets are meant for Sabre fencing only, not Epee.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Jinx and Bond leave the airplane on a helicopter at the end of the movie Bond struggles against time to try to restart the helicopter engine. In reality this would be unnecessary because Bond could safely bring the helicopter down by just autorotating the rotors to slow the helicopter's decent.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond fights Zao in the Cuban clinic, he disarms Zao by switching on an MRI, which makes the gun fly out of his hand, then switching it off to grab the gun. MRI magnets take hours both to charge up and to power down. In addition, everything else in the room - the bed Zao was on, the IV stand, a steel tray that gets knocked over during the fight - all would have gone flying into the MRI along with the gun. In fact, it is impossible to have any equipment in an MRI room other than the actual MRI - a patient's bed would certainly not be situated right next to one.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is running done the dome, the rope changes between the shots. (From a steel wire to climbing rope and back, best seen at the knot)
  
  
• Continuity: When James Bond inserts the remote detonation device into the C4, whilst in the helicopter at the beginning of the film, the first shot shows that it's not fully inserted, the close up reveals that it is.
  
  
• Factual errors: Standard Hollywood make-believe. After the hole is shot in the window of the airplane, several people get sucked out and the plane goes into an uncontrollable dive for several minutes. In reality, although noisy, pressure equalization between the atmosphere and the interior of the aircraft only lasts a very few seconds regardless of altitude, nobody can get sucked out through a bullet hole, and the only reason that a dive would occur would be if the pilot needed to rapidly get below 10,000 feet for passenger welfare.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The knives Jinx uses for throwing (called Tekna diving knives in the original goofs entry, but in reality a similar design made by a different company) while not purpose-designed for throwing, are well suited to the task. Any hobby knife thrower would be able to throw them effectively. Nor will the holes in the handle cause them to tumble: many purpose-designed throwing knives feature holes in the handle.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): M's colleague Charles Robinson pronounces "DMZ" with the American pronunciation of "Z".
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond arrives to the cockpit where Graves is and accidentally breaks one of the windows, there is a shot which depicts the cockpit as being behind the reactors of the plane, but when Bond pushes Graves out of the plane through the same window, the reactors are behind the cockpit.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond escapes from Graves' lair by running down the outside of the dome, the stuntman is shown using a rope tied to his harness, but Bond clips a metal cable to his.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gustav lands in the parachute, a man is seen helping him take the harness off. When the camera angle changes, the man disappears, and he seems to be taking it off himself.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bond enters Vauxhaull Cross Station using the key and mentions that "He had always heard about this place" implying he had never been there, but in the very next scene he is in Q's workshop which seems to be in the train station, indicating that Bond would have been there many times. However, in previous Bond movies, Q commonly sets up shop in different locations, including a monastery in Moonraker and a Scottish castle in The World is Not Enough. Just because Q has a workshop in this location, it doesn't mean that Bond has to have been there before.
  
  
• Factual errors: The license plates in the Cuba scenes are wrong. This is especially notable with the car that Bond gets from Raoul, which has black plates with yellow-ish lettering, a combination that did not exist in the time period the movie is set in. Black plates designated foreign diplomats and had white lettering. The car should have had a yellow plate with black letters, designating a privately owned vehicle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is wearing the virtual reality headset, the virtual reality action scene should be visible from Bond's first-person perspective. In spite of this, the scene is filmed in third-person perspective, with Bond visible. Bond would not be visible in this shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where med-techs run in to resuscitate Bond, he touches one defibrillator paddle to each of the two male technicians and shocks them. In reality this would not work, as the current flows from one paddle to the other through the human body, and the paddles require 25 lbs of force at minimum to establish a good circuit. As the technicians are not touching, there is no completed circuit from paddle A to paddle B and thus, no current would flow.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jinx shoots the doctor in the clinic in Cuba, she fires two shots. She fires one shot, and then she stands up and fires a second shot. For the second shot, it plays the sound effect of a bullet being shot through a silencer, but if you look closely, not only does nothing come out of the gun, but it also appears that she doesn't even pull the trigger.
  
  
• Continuity: In some scenes, Bond's invisible car is completely 100% invisible. In other scenes, the car appears with a blurry outline while "invisible" mode.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Colonel Moon is beating up the punching bag. Afterwards, it is unzipped and a man falls out. However, when he was beating up the punching bag, it was shaped like a regular punching bag, not like it had a man inside. If it had a man inside, there would have been a lot more air in the bag.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the end when Q and M are monitoring Bond from above with the Thermograph scanner, Bond and Jinx's figures are generating a lot of heat, yet, their bodies are not moving at all.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond puts his car into invisible mode, and goes reverse up the wall in order to avoid Zao's car. However, we never hear Bond rev his engine up to go in reverse so quickly, and it would have been extremely difficult for the car to hold this vertical position on wet snow for so long.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond is using the sniper rifle, Jinx utters some nonsense about "Windage 1 and 1/2." This information is useless to Bond, without some type of direction or denomination.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jinx is trying to regain control of the airplane, the automated voice announcements are speaking English. Despite English being the most commonly used language in aviation and international air traffic control, the voice prompts on a North Korean military plane would definitely not be in anything but Korean.
  
  

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