Corrected entry: In the car chase, you can see when Bond's car flips that there is a large metal plate underneath it, presumably to mount explosives and effects paraphernalia on. A real Vanquish would have an assortment of metal tubes and engine parts.
Corrected entry: In the last scene at the Isla Los Organos, Jinx jumps into the water from a considerable height. She bothers removing her dress, but she leaves her big earrings on. Hitting the water should at least tear them off in a quite painful way, yet we see her just a moment later in the water, the earrings are still there, and she seems rather happy. (00:48:00)
Correction: Nicky Berwick, the stuntwoman who doubled for Halle Berry, did the high dive (from the wall of a castle in Cadiz, Spain) while wearing the earrings in question. Since she was uninjured we can assume Jinx could have got away with it, too.
Corrected entry: When Bond is first speaking to Jinx in the bar by the beach he is smoking a cigar. Various shots of him then Jinx show him sometimes raising his cigar to his mouth, then it not there in the next shot. (00:35:25)
Correction: He takes a puff while the camera is on Jinx.
Corrected entry: In the fight scene at the end, Jinx and Miranda are fighting. Jinx gets the upper hand on Miranda and stabs her. Miranda soon afterwards falls backwards and lands with her arms pointing downwards. When Bond comes into the room after he's killed Graves, Miranda is lying down with her arms pointing upwards. (01:57:10)
Correction: We don't know that she died instantly. She could have moved her arms while writhing in pain or in an effort to get up.
Corrected entry: Outside the ice palace when Bond opens the steam valve, he turns the valve clockwise, which would have only tightened it rather than released it. In any event, what on earth was such a dangerous steam valve doing there in the first place?
Correction: Actually, valves on propane tanks are tightened by turning them counter-clockwise for some reason. Maybe the valve in the Ice Palace works the same way.
Corrected entry: When Bond escapes from the British ship after shocking the doctors, a second or two after he jumps over the side you can see his hands fly up, presumably because he landed on a mat not that far down. In reality, the deck would be quite far from the surface and you wouldn't see anything when he hit the water. (00:25:45)
Correction: He could have just thrown his hands up reflexively as he was falling, enabling us to see them no matter when he hit something (or what he hit, for that matter).
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bond pulls himself out of Hong Kong harbour you see the Hong Kong skyline in the background, therefore he has come ashore on the Kowloon side (also a reference to "The Man With The Golden Gun"). He then turns to see that he's at the Hong Kong Yacht Club - but the Yacht Club is on Hong Kong Island, not the Kowloon waterfront. (00:26:15)
Correction: The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is on Hong Kong Island; the Hong Kong Yacht Club as depicted in the film is fictitious.
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when Bond is fighting with Moon on the hovercraft, Moon shoots at Bond with the flamethrower. If you use slowmotion just as Moon is beginning to fire the flamethrower, there are a few frames where you can see that it is shooting water at Bond, indicating that the fire was "drawn in."
Correction: That is a real flamethrower supplied by Any Effects Ltd. It uses 'Sterno', camping lighter fuel, mixed with hydraulic fluid. This produces a very low temperature flame which is also very 'dirty' - meaning it can be seen on camera (and in real life.) What you see when freezing is the unburned sterno just before it hits the spark plug.
Corrected entry: Why does Bond look so shocked when Moon calls him by his real name? Moon just blew up his helicopter, about half a dozen guys have grabbed him, and there's a gun at his head. Clearly, Moon's figured out Bond isn't who he's pretending to be. In fact, why doesn't Bond realize even before Moon blows up the helicopter? He's looking right at Moon and Zao while they talk and cast furtive glances at him.
Correction: Just because Moon and Zao are talking furtively, it doesn't automatically mean that his cover's blown - he may well have felt concern at that point, but if he showed any nervousness, it would be out of character for who he's trying to play. After the destruction of the helicopter, obviously Bond knows that his cover has been blown somehow, but there's no way that Moon should actually know his name - after all, he's a top covert agent for British Intelligence, so his name would hardly be common knowledge. For Moon to call him by his real name is still going to be one hell of a shock, as it tells Bond that Moon has a source of information within British Intelligence - basically that there's a mole somewhere who's just sold him out. A certain amount of shock is quite reasonable.
Corrected entry: When we first meet Jinx, she has just been swimming. When she meets James Bond and starts talking to him, she has lip gloss and eye shadow on. Surely she couldn't put it on that quickly? (00:34:55)
Correction: Perhaps it's waterproof makeup. If she wasn't in the water too long, it wouldn't come off.
Corrected entry: When Bond is being chased in the rocket car by the sunbeam, for a few seconds he's in the world's smallest coniferous forest, which seems to exist for no other reason than to shear the sides of and look good on fire. After that he's back on the sheet of ice, with no vegetation to be seen for miles. (01:28:20)
Correction: The scenes were actually filmed in Iceland, and Iceland does have a lot of lush greenery.
Corrected entry: In the scene after Bond uses his high frequency ring to smash through the glass floor, the translated text on screen says that Graves is telling his men in Korean to kill him "quietly". Surely, in all the pandemonium, the translation should say "quickly".
Correction: He says "quietly" because the numerous party guests are still there and he doesn't want them to hear what's going on.
Corrected entry: How did Graves manage to undergo gene therapy, create a diamond business, design, construct, and launch Icarus, become world famous and get knighted all in the 14 months Bond was held in Korea?
Correction: After his gene therapy the colonel killed the real Graves and took his place. This explains the diamond business & knighthood. Icarus must be written off as a miracle of engineering and logistics for the sake of the movie.
Corrected entry: Before chaos erupts at the ice palace, there are lots of people inside it. Only about 30 seconds afterwards, there are no people are around, or at least none of them notice what is going on. Where did all of the people go?
Correction: We've seen the plane land - they've all headed off to board it. The only people remaining at that point are the ones that Graves has ordered to remain behind to deal with Bond.
Corrected entry: The slider crash on Bond's invisible car, it should smash the door and broke the window. but after Bond escapes with it, there is no scratch on it.
Correction: It would cause damage if the car was made out the usual materials, but since the Vanquish shows almost no damage after receiving machinegun fire from Zao's car, it can be assumed that the car is made out of a stronger material.
Corrected entry: When M leaves Bond's bedside, the doors close but the LED of the security computer lock stays green. It should have turned into red to show that the door had been closed, as happens shortly afterwards when Bond locks the medical staff in. (00:23:55)
Correction: It is hinted at later when M has her conversation with the American guy that she left the door wide open for him to escape.
Corrected entry: When M is talking to the American over the webcam connection, look at the bottom of the screen when we see the American. You can see the back of the webcam that is supposed to be taking the image. In the next shot it is gone. (00:47:35)
Correction: While it does look like a webcam it is not the camera that is taking the image. This is clear because if it was he would be looking directly at it. His eyes are looking ahead and not down towards to the camera. The next shot the camera is gone because the camera that is filming him is zoomed in, we cannot see the desk so we cannot say that the webcam is gone.
Corrected entry: Gustav Graves parachutes in to the Buckingham Palace area on the way to collect his knighthood from The Queen. During the scene we see several shots of Buckingham Palace itself, however the Royal Standard isn't flying on the flag pole. Whenever HM The Queen is in residence at Buckingham Palace the Royal Standard is flown. It may have been possible that The Queen was still on the way to the Palace when Gustav parachutes in, but this can't be the case as Miranda Frost says "We can't keep Her Majesty waiting any longer", implying she is already there. (00:49:05)
Correction: We have no reason to believe that Miranda Frost isn't simply making an excuse so that her employer could leave. It wouldn't be the first time that a public relations person lied.
Corrected entry: Why does the part of the ice palace in which Jinx is imprisoned melt so much faster than the rest? And why doesn't that apply to the walls and door? (01:36:40)
Correction: The room Jinx is in doesn't melt faster, it is just sealed, keeping water inside. Walls and doors were probably reinforced with bulletproof glass or something similar but they do melt a bit.
Corrected entry: In the opening sequence in North Korea. When James Bond detonates the C4 in the brief case carrying the diamonds, the diamonds fly into the air and some are embedded into Zao's face. When the C4 is detonated Zao has the back of his head facing the case with the diamonds in. When the case explodes Zao lands face down on the floor. How come he has diamonds embedded into his face - surely they should be in the back of his head? (00:08:10)
Correction: The diamonds are on his back right when the suitcase explodes and they scratch all the right side of his face, which is perfectly possible.
Correction: It's highly unlikely that Bond would have a standard production model. It's completely in line with the story that it would have been heavily modified.
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