San Andreas

San Andreas (2015)

12 mistakes since 9 Jan '17, 00:00

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Continuity mistake: When they steal the truck at the mall they have to hot wire it to make it start. Later at the San Andreas fault scene where the road ends, in the same truck, he turns the truck off with the key.

Factual error: We repeatedly see Ray Gaines and his daughter, Blake, swimming and thrashing about in crystal-clear floodwater following the tsunami. But floodwater from a tsunami is invariably inky black with thick, churning silt, sediment and debris. The same crystal-clear tsunami floodwater mistake appears in the movie "2012"

Charles Austin Miller

Factual error: In the garage of the supposedly earthquake-proof building the walls are all cinder block. This would never be done in real life - the walls would be poured pre-stressed concrete with rebar inside. The same problem in the restaurant that the ex-wife is in - the walls there were also cinder block on the top floor.

Factual error: Near the end, Emma Gaines drives a small fiberglass boat at high speed straight through the plate-glass window of a downtown skyscraper. Plate glass is incredibly dense, much more dense than the fiberglass hull of a boat. On high-speed impact, the plate glass might indeed shatter, but the fiberglass hull of the boat would be utterly demolished.

Charles Austin Miller

Factual error: This movie makes the same mistake dozens of others have when it comes to tsunamis. When the water is coming into the bay, Dwayne Johnson says 'we need to get over the crest'. Tsunamis don't have crests nor do they act like they are shown here. The water just 'fills' up like in a bathtub.

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Audio problem: When Ray and Emma get in the skydiving airplane, it has a turbine engine, but when it starts makes the sounds of a piston engine.

Continuity mistake: When the helicopter is leaving the restaurant, one of the doors is ripped off. But in several shots, the door is back on. Then off, then back on.

Factual error: While driving the stolen truck, the San Andreas fault has cut off the road, with the opposite (west) side of the fault (the Pacific plate) shifting left (southward). In reality, the San Andreas is a right-lateral fault, and the westward Pacific plate shifts northward relative to the North American plate.

Other mistake: The same section of the Golden Gate bridge is shown being stripped from its suspension cables twice: once when the quake hits and once when the container ship hits bottom and tips over. Also the ship cannot hit bottom, as the depth of the channel beneath the bridge is greater than 600'.

Revealing mistake: When the helicopter is escaping with The Rock and his ex-wife, the helicopter doesn't cast a shadow or a reflection on anything it should have.

Character mistake: Nob Hill is mentioned as the highest point in San Francisco. It isn't the highest point. Mount Davidson is.

Other mistake: At the Hoover Dam scene at the beginning of the film, the dam starts to collapse, when the ground starts to crumble and Kim is running to safety, we see numerous cars on the bridge, most of the cars on the dam have right hand drive wiper blades. This would not be possible since the USA drive on the right hand side. The wipers should be pointing the other way. This is also used for the Golden Gate Bridge scene as well.

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Question: The end of the movie shows the older brother giving the necklace back to her, but it never shows when she lost it. Am I missing something?

Answer: You haven't missed anything. After the successful CPR, Blake is still wearing the two heart necklaces, but a considerable amount of time passes between then and when Ben gives them back to her, so we can presume that the necklaces had fallen off at some point in between. Since Blake had taken it upon herself to wear her sister's necklace with her own, the two chains could have been clasped together (which I've done myself), as if one.

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