Character mistake: Juggernaut says to cut the blue wire to defuse the bomb. At the last moment, Fallon decides he's lying and so cuts the red wire and successfully defuses the bomb. But he failed to tell the other defusers this before he cut it! If he had guessed wrong and the bomb had exploded, the other defusers would have assumed he had cut the blue wire and so would also have cut the red wire and also exploded their bombs (or after the next bomb had gone off, they would have assumed the wire-color was random).
Juggernaut (1974)
1 character mistake
Directed by: Richard Lester
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings
Other mistake: Fallon and Charlie tackle one of the bombs each, and Charlie is supposed to be duplicating the steps that Fallon takes. However, the first screw that Charlie loosens on the cover plate isn't the same one that Fallon first loosens.
Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon: Fallon is the champion.
Trivia: The MacGyver episode "Countdown" was a remake of this film. Initially the bomb defusing scene is replicated in part in the Kurt Russell film "Executive Decision"
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