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Equilibrium (2002) - 40 mistakes

Directed by Kurt Wimmer, starring Christian Bale, Sean Bean

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Mistake Continuity: During the final battle scene, Preston throws the two "weighted" magazines down the corridor, where they stand upright and wait for him. But as he battles his way down the hall, in various shots his guns already have the weighted mags in them, before he drops his regular mags and inserts the new ones from the floor.

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Mistake Revealing: When Preston returns to the Equilibrium after he has uncovered his window, there is a shot where the camera slowly moves from the front of the crowd to the back of the crowd. If you look at the backs of the people to the right you can see a shadow moving from someone in the film crew. Submitted by Mortug

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Mistake Visible crew/equipment: When Brandt picks up Preston from Equilibrium you can see the white screen in the reflection of the front passenger window.

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Mistake Audio problem: When Preston is confronted with the dog, the guard says to him "Unknown individuals are subject to summary destruction" but watch his mouth when he says the last bit. It doesn't match what he's saying.

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Mistake Revealing: When Preston is seeing the body of Sean Bean he opens up his picture holder. When he does this, watch Sean Bean's shoulder and you'll see his muscle twitch by his neck. This happens at the end of this shot before it changes to a close up of the photos.

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Mistake Continuity: During the second Preston/Mary interview, when the two are facing away from each other, the camera cuts between close-ups of the two. During Preston's close-ups, Mary's face is turned to the side. During her own, she is facing forward.

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Mistake Revealing: In the final encounter Preston takes on eight Clerics with Samurai swords. Watch him stab the last one and you can see the blade go under the man's arm. The shot changes and the flaw is just as apparent when Preston takes up the sword again, the stabbed Cleric is holding the blade for him.

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Mistake Continuity: In the final showdown, Christian Bale quickly slices up Taye Diggs. Diggs drops his sword before falling to his knees, then it cuts to a wider shot showing the sword still in his hand.

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Mistake Continuity: In the scene where Preston shoots his partner for being a sense offender, pieces of the book fly into the air after he fires. However, when the book is dropped right after, it can easily be seen that there is no bullet hole in the book.

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Mistake Revealing: In the end fight scene when Preston is fighting the guards with the sword, he stabs through one (on the right of the screen) and he falls to the floor. It's painfully obvious that the sword is stuck to the left side of his body and isn't sticking out his back. Submitted by Cybermoose

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Mistake Audio problem: When Preston is confronted with the dog he says "My name is John Preston". In the following shot his mouth is still moving but it's only at the end of this shot that he starts talking again.

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Mistake Continuity: When Preston is crying over Sean Bean he has a face full of tears. When the guard enters Preston stands and he has a tear-free face.

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Mistake Revealing: At the beginning of the scene where Preston is taking out all the guards near then end, before he enters the room with Father,he throws the two balanced clips that stop perfectly in front of the camera and perfectly side by side. This is because each clip has a string attached to it, that is just barely visible, that stops them at the right spot.

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Mistake Continuity: At the beginning of the film when the police arrive at the Resistance hideout we see the police pull up then take cover behind their cars, G36 rifles at the ready. A lone guy comes out and is immediately put down, as this happens you can see the windshields of the police cars are already shot up and cracked even though at this point the Resistance people have yet to return fire.

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Mistake Continuity: When Preston is examining the snow globe it's quite a big one (his hand can barely fit around the wooden base). When he drops the snow globe on the floor it's considerably smaller in size.

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Mistake Continuity: When Preston and Partridge return from the Nethers and shoot themselves up with Prozium, watch Preston's Prozium syringe: even though he inserts a vial of the drug, the syringe is still empty when he puts it to his neck (you can see the tube that the needle's connected to doesn't have any liquid in it). It's only during the close-up that the syringe is suddenly full of the amber-colored Prozium.

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Mistake Audio problem: At the end when Father says "I live, I breathe" the shot behind him shows his mouth saying something else.

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Mistake Continuity: Preston shoots his first partner right in the face or chest to kill him. However, in the scene where he comes to see the body of his former partner there are no bullet holes visible.

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Mistake Continuity: After the final battle, Christian Bale has blood on his collar, dribbling down it in three or four places. In a few close-up shots though, the collar only has a very small amount of blood, right on the edge. Submitted by Jon Sandys

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Mistake Factual error: The library proprieter is listed in the credits as "Brian Connelly", but his name's actually "Brian Conley" - he's a comic/TV presenter here in the UK. No reason why he can't be playing a straight role, but it was a bit of a surprise when he suddenly popped up! Submitted by Jon Sandys

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