Directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Colin Salmon, Halle Berry, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Pierce Brosnan, Rick Yune, Rosamund Pike, Toby Stephens (add more)
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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. [The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is on Hong Kong Island; the Hong Kong Yacht Club as depicted in the film is fictitious.]
Graves tells his people to kill Bond quietly (he doesn't want the party guests to know what's going on). So they fire at him with machine guns and try to mow him down with the Icarus beam? [He says kill bond quickly, not quietly. ]
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." [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.]
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. [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 by Tailkinker
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? [Perhaps it's waterproof makeup. If she wasn't in the water too long, it wouldn't come off.]
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. [The scenes were actually filmed in Iceland, and Iceland does have a lot of lush greenery.]
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". [He says "quietly" because the numerous party guests are still there and he doesn't want them to hear what's going on.]
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? [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.]
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? [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 by Tailkinker
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. [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.]
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. [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.]
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. [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.]
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. [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.]
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? [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.]
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? [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.]
Icarus is shown in low earth orbit, and would pass from horizon to horizon in under 15 minutes - yet the beam is always vertical as if fixed overhead. In low earth orbit, the chances of Icarus being right overhead Korea or Iceland at any given moment are quite slim. On the other hand, if it were in a geostationary orbit, it would be over the equator, and the beam would be at least 50 degrees from the vertical over Iceland. However, from that position it couldn't also target Korea. If there is a geostationary orbit visible from both Iceland and Korea, it would be very low on the horizon and thus useless for hitting a target. [The beam is not always vertical: when it's shot in Korea, it is about 30 degrees from the vertical. The satellite is not geostationary and the bad guy had already planned where and when to fire, so he could have prepared Icarus for that.]
You can't electrocute someone with a medical defibrillator, even if you do hit them with both pads. They come equipped with a very sensitive device which stops the current flow if a heartbeat is detected. [I am a paramedic and that is not always true. You can still do some serious damage with a defibrillator. They don't always stop the current flow.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
When Zao is having DNA alteration he still has the diamonds embedded in his face - what's the point in getting a face change? If they can be removed why hasn't he done this first? If they can't be removed he'll have a different face with a whole mess of diamonds embedded in it, which would be quite a major giveaway. [In the scene previous to the one where Bond confronts Zao, you can see the progress of his face change. All the stage one photos have his diamonds still intact and in situ. Therefore it is part of the treatment that the diamonds are still in place when Bond finds him.]
When Bond is about to sneak into the restricted area of the ice palace, he takes out two guards by opening a valve and causing steam to explode over them. He opens the valve by turning a wheel, which appears to be metal, using bare hands in sub-zero temperatures. Under those conditions his hands would have stuck to the metal and Bond would have left a good few layers of his skin on the wheel. [Only if the metal or his hands had liquid water on them. (That's why your tongue sticks to freezing metal - it's wet). There's no water on the wheel, and I doubt if Bond has sweaty palms in that temperature.]
When Bond and Jinx are trying to escape in the helicopter, they open the door and start the conveyor. The red car drops. Quite a few seconds later, the yellow car is dropped. Yet, later, we see the cars nose down in the mud about 20 feet apart. How did this happen when the plane was moving at such speed? [This assumes the two cars falls perfectly vertically, and they won't. Their center of gravity, air resistance, shape, and so on will all make a difference. They could land miles apart or practically on top of each other, as happens here.]
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