John Preston: You're an offender!
Reading Room Proprietor: I'm not!
John Preston: No? Then why are you so scared of me?
When you see cleric Preston's wife walking to the incinerator, if you look very closely, you see that they are not the same person, one is a look-alike. [Director Kurt Wimmer reveals the reason for this during one of the commentary tracks (still a mistake, but here's why). The incinerator scene was shot first. When it came to shooting the house arrest scene (which occurs earlier in the film, but was shot later) the actress was nowhere to be found, hence the use of a lookalike.] See more...
Originally the emotion suppressing drug everybody takes in the film was supposed to be called 'Librium'. Kurt Wimmer changed it after discovering that there actually is a drug with this name. See more...
Directed by Kurt Wimmer, starring Christian Bale, Sean Bean (add more)
Genres: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller
Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.
Another subtitles related problem. Whenever they show Sean Pertwee delivering a speech the subtitles list Angus Macfayden's character as the one speaking. While this later turns out to be the case I still think they could have done a slightly more discreet job. [It may have been a bad idea, given the reveal at the end of the movie, but it is not a mistake. Sorry, but opinions don't make mistakes.]
Corrected by Phixius
Preston supposedly switched his weapon with his partner's in the warehouse raid, but he had his gun in one hand and his partner's in the other and never faced away from his partner and never changed hands. [Brandt offers Preston his gun with his left hand. Preston accepts it with his right hand. After deliberating, Preston hands his own gun back to Brandt with his left hand. Brandt accepts it with his right hand. Brandt pretended not to notice for the benefit of the overall plan to trap Preston.]
Corrected by Phixius
In the scene in which Christian Bale fights several soldiers in bike-helmets with his studded pistol-butts, there is a close-up shot of the first soldier who's visor gets smashed. Immediately after that shot you can see that there are no studs on the pistol-butt. [This has already been corrected. It is impossible to see this without using slow motion, and as such it is not a valid mistake.]
Corrected by Twotall
In the scene where Preston tells the men to shoot the hinges and lock, It shows guns being pointed at four hinges and 2 locks. [There's not enough detail here to constitute a mistake. Does the door *have* four hinges and two locks? Is there perhaps more than one gun pointing at each hinge and/or lock?]
Corrected by Phixius
It seems that every single person in this future society has to administer their dose of prozium at exactly the same time, however, in the scene in the car at the beginning of the movie, the clerics' watches beep but no one outside of the car stops to take their shots. [It SEEMS that they take them at the same time. We only see one shot of many people doing it. It's likely that people of different professions would need to take different doses at different times. The Clerics are fighting routinely and so would be far more biologically aroused than most of the population, which would mean they'd be taking either a different dosage (so they'd be on a different timetable) or the same dosage more often.]
Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
When Preston is beating the guys up with the spikes coming out of the handle of his guns, when he breaks the first guy's glass visor you see the spikes are no longer there, but a few shots later, you see him retracting them back into the guns. I had to slow this down to really see it. [This is completely impossible to see without the use of slow-motion and therefore by the rules of this site the mistake is invalid.]
How is it that Cleric Preston is able to visit with the Father fully armed? The Father even knew that he would not be happy when he arrived so why was he allowed guns and ammunition? They took his sword as he entered but didn't bother with anything else. In the future one would think they would utilize metal detectors or a simple pat down process to protect the omni-present Father. [The DVD commentary clears this up somewhat - there was orginally a metal detector in the script, that was in the next room (after the interrogation)However the scene was cut, so it is never shown. This explains why they had seemingly let him in with his guns -they hadn't checked yet.]
The first gunfight at the warehouse. The guards gather in a bright corridor and blast the locks and hinges from a door that Preston slides into a darkened room upon. Here he waits in total darkness before blowing away all the sense offenders. If the door was blown off the room would have been flooded with light. [As Preston says to the guard whilst waiting outside the door, 'When the door's down, blow the bulbs'.The guards aim at the lights and when the door goes down we here them all shooting out the lights hence the darkness.]
Just after Preston kills Father you can see the cleric holding a gun in each hand. Two shots later he leaves the room with NO guns in his hands. You do not hear him drop the guns, but you CAN hear each of his steps. [Preston can probably retract the guns back into his arm holsters.]
When Preston and his partner are coming back from the Nether, he sees that his partner has a book with him. He asks "Why didn't you leave that for the evidence team?" The partner replies "I wanted to log it in myself, they miss these things sometimes." Later, he has a book and Tae Diggs asks him about it. He says the excact same thing. The problem is that it is not a strech to assume that the best cleric on the force would know that saying that will likely lead to his being outed as a sense offender. [Preston has to say something in response - he's been caught on the hop, doesn't have time to think, so resorts to repeating what Partridge said earlier. Anyway, it wasn't that phrase that caught Preston's attention earlier anyway - his suspicions were aroused by other statements by Partridge - he then investigated and found that Partridge had not turned the book in as he said he would. At the time, he accepted it as a reasonable answer - there's no reason to think that Brandt wouldn't accept it as well.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Sean Bean's character is killed by being shot at close range as he sits, but in the morgue his head and torso are untouched. There appears to be a mark in on his neck in the morgue, suggesting that's where the bullet hit, but it's a trick of the light - a clearer shot shows his neck unmarked. [Partridge is killed by a bullet passing through the base of his neck. This is shown both in the morgue and in Preston's dream where the corpse is put in an incinerator.]
In the scene where Preston is about to enter the room, he orders that they blow the bolts to the door with the Shotguns. However the scene where they do this is repeated. [Er, no. Preston's order is, "When the door's down, blow the BULBS", meaning, "When the door's down, blow the lights out so the Resistance members can't see." The police sweepers take up stations near the door and aim at the hinges and lock so Preston can take the door down easily, but none of the motions or shots are ever repeated.]
When Preston slices Brandt's coat we see two pistols - still in their holsters -falling out of the coat. Yet in the next shot, when the pistols hit the ground, only one of them is holstered. [You actually only see one of the guns hit the ground, it slides out of the holster while falling. This is easy to verify since they both fall on different sides of his body, and the holster visible in the shot right next to the gun is empty.]
This is a mistake between the audio and the subtitles: When Preston is discussing killing Father with the other members of the Resistance he asks them about war and cruelty. Jurgen says that they've been 'Replaced by the Tetragrammaton' but the subtitles show the line as 'Replaced by a touch of Grammaton'. [When I watched the movie on VHS (without captioning,) Jurgen did say "Replaced by a touch of Grammaton?" at this point. Maybe there's a discrepancy between versions?]
When Christian Bale and Sean Bean are in the car on the way back from the Nether, and it is time for them to take their intervals, none of the people outside take theirs. [Because they've already taken theirs. Watch the sequence again. The crowd outside takes their injections as Father is speaking. It is AFTER that that the wrist indicators beep and Preston and Partridge take their intervals.]
In the society of Libria, all form of emotion is supposed to be outlawed and with it all objects that can provoke it. Yet Preston's daughter is shown eating chocolate cereal. Chocolate stimulates the release of endorphines into the brain, generating a feeling similar to being in love. Shouldn't it hence be outlawed? [Several things. First, the submitter postulated that the cereal was chocolate simply because the cereal is brown. It could just as easily be brown because it's a healthy fiber-based cereal like Total. Secondly, even if it is chocolate-flavored, the endorphin release caused by chocolate only applies to REAL chocolate, not artificial chocolate flavoring such as that found in cereals. Thirdly, the endorphin release is greatly overstated here; chocolate can produce, at best, a feeling of very mild euphoria in 99% of the population. This would be easily counteracted by the drug Prozium. Fourth, we see near the end of the film that Preston's children have both been off the Prozium dose since their mother was arrested years ago. If the cereal IS chocolate-flavored, they may be eating it as a small act of rebellion.]
In the begining of the movie, when the clerics and the SWAT team enter a building full of deviants, they are in a room with windows. But when Preston enters that room, it's completely dark. [Not the same room. The surviving sense-offenders (the ones who weren't killed by the heavy gunfire at the front of the building) retreated to a darkened room in the hopes that the Tetragrammaton wouldn't be able to take them on safely without heavy losses. As indeed they would have, had not the Clerics shown up.]
Do you remember when Preston finds the room with the snow globe? The music plays and he crys. You should also remember that the room was very dark and he had to light the lamp to see...but how did he find this room? He saw bright white light shining through a bullet hole in the wall. [When Preston enters the room the lights flicker and go out. That is why he has to re-illuminate the room.]
Early in the film, when the woman reaches across the table to grab the vial from Preston's hand, the actors need to lean-in, where later on, when she finds out that Preston is a sense offender, the two relaxingly touch hands in the center of the table. Did the table shrink? [Actually, it is the same room. but new tables to indicate that the two characters are getting closer to each other, Kurt Wimmer says this in the Comentator option on the Reg1 DVD. So yes, the table did get smaller.]
When John Preston is fighting the guards in the corridor and does his spectacular over-the-head pick up of the gun at the end, there is a shot of the guards in front of the door getting shot and the one on the right is standing still for far too long in comparison with the other shots. That same shot also shows them both falling to the side when in actual fact, they stumble backwards into the door. [Preston is actually killing guards on the other side of those doors, too. He shoots the 2 guards in the room that he is in, and the bullets go through and kill the guys on the other side of the door. That's why there's 2 different death scenes. If you watch closely, you can see that the doors have different designs on them, according to what room they are supposed to match.]
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