X

Quotes

Batman: It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

See more...

Trivia

The Scarecrow's plot to contaminate Gotham's water supply from under Arkham Asylum has appeared several times in Batman fiction, first appearing in the comics and becoming the focus of the Batman: The Animated Series episode 'Dreams In Darkness'. After the film was released it would also be referenced in the Batman: Arkham Asylum videogame. See more...

Picture

Movie Mistakes blog

Popular blog posts:

Top 15 biggest Harry Potter film mistakes

The 10 biggest mistakes in Iron Man 1 & 2

15 biggest mistakes in Titanic

30 Biggest mistakes in the Star Wars movies

The 20 biggest mistakes in Jurassic Park

Other great sites

Anything Hollywood

Bits & Pieces

Book mistakes

Bullz-Eye Movies

CanMag

Daily Stab

Defamer

Double Viking

EHOWA

Film Drunk

Foundry Music

Game mistakes

Geek Tyrant

Gone Hollywood

Hollyscoop

Hollywood Outbreak

I Am Bored

I Love Bacon

Joblo movie news

Movie Buzz

Movie spoilers

Movie timeline

Other crap

Rock Paper Everything

Screenjunkies

Sky movie reviews

Something Really Funny

Tengossip

Trailer Addict

Unreality Magazine

Update alerts | Exclude type?

Batman Begins (2005) - 42 mistakes

Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Katie Holmes, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

This is a "rebooting" of the Batman movie franchise, so any mistakes relating to discontinuity between this movie and any of the earlier movies aren't valid.

Where is Batman Begins ranked on the ultimate best to worst list? Cast your vote and find out!

Mistakes
Trivia
Pictures
Quotes
Easter Eggs
Corrections
Questions
Submit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When the burning log falls on Bruce, it lands near his feet. Camera cuts and it's now by his neck.

Edit Submitted by Starchild Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Audio problem: After Bruce and Rachel kiss, Rachel says, "But maybe he's still out there somewhere". Her head is seen from behind, but you can see from the motion of her jaw that her mouth is moving before the words are heard.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: Before Alfred knocks down the man outside the burning mansion, there are several shots from the inside of the building. In one of them, there's a burning table with a globe on. When Alfred and Bruce escape, they enter the room with the piano, and the same table is seen again. There are lots of flames around the table, but the table itself is no longer on fire.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Sergeant Gordon puts the jacket around a young Bruce, the jacket is lying smooth around Bruce in the first shots. In the consecutive shot where Gordon says, "It's okay" for the second time, there's suddenly a huge bulge in the jacket on Bruce's left shoulder, but in the next shot, the jacket is smooth again.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Factual error: The bat signal at the end of the film defies physics. The spotlight is a few feet across and is projecting the signal onto clouds far above. To do this, the light beam should get wider as it climbs up (like a flashlight's beam aimed at the ceiling). Yet the shot of the clouds shows rays of light getting wider as they go downward, like sun rays through the clouds. For this to exist, there's either a bat signal floating far above and through the clouds, or the one on the roof needs to be several miles wide, focusing a beam that narrows as it climbs.

Edit Submitted by johnrosa Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When the Tumbler leaps toward the steeply-angled rooftop (the shingled roof with dormers), beyond it is a tall office building on the opposite side of a highway that is running perpendicular to the Tumbler's direction of travel (and parallel to the face of the office building). In order to leap onto this highway, the Tumbler will need to make a hard left or right turn, as going straight will take it across the highway into the face of the office building. But as the Tumbler reaches the end of the angled roof, suddenly the office building has moved far to the left, and the highway is now nearly in line with the Tumbler's direction, running into the distance next to the office building, and passes along the left side of the shingled roof, making it easy for the Tumbler to leap easily onto the roadway.

Edit Submitted by johnrosa Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: After the big explosion, Bruce is shown holding Ducard at the edge of the cliff. Bruce's body is over the edge, only his arm remains on the ice to anchor them. But as he lifts Ducard to safety, Bruce's body is suddenly on the ice, only his right arm is over the edge.

Edit Submitted by johnrosa Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Batman is chased by the cops while he is trying to save Rachel, he reaches the roof of a parking lot and stops. A cop orders him to switch off the engine of his vehicle and get out. Later when Batman is chased inside a tunnel, we see a cop asking on his radio what the Batmobile looks like. The Batmobile then zooms past him and he says "never mind". The only problem is that it's the same cop both times, so he knew full well what the Batmobile looks like when it stopped in front of him initially. Probably caused by the order of those sequences being switched in editing, but still a mistake.

Edit Time
⇑
⇓

Plot hole: The manner in which the Microwave emitter is used to vaporize the city's water would not go as intended. Microwave emissions coming from a device located inside of a train that has a very metallic exterior will unavoidably be affected by the photoelectric effects resulting from any microwave beam that is focused at the water mains below the train from within it. A fork placed within a relatively low powered kitchen microwave would encounter a similar effect.

Edit Submitted by RootofInsanity
⇑
⇓

Continuity: During the training exercise on the ice, just after Ducard says that the parents' deaths were Dr. Wayne's fault, Bruce gets up and launches after Ducard in anger. In the shot from the front, he doesn't wear any scarf. The next shot from his back reveals that he is wearing a red/gray scarf over his jacket.

Edit Submitted by ployp Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When the thug attacks Bruce in the beginning of the movie, the man grabs his hair, yanking it straight up. In the next shot, he's suddenly yanking it sideways. His action is shown in real time, visible on screen at all times, and therefore can't be corrected by saying it only takes a fraction of a second to move his hand.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha
⇑
⇓

Revealing: When Batman flees from Gordon after their first meeting, he leaps across an alley and catches himself on the railing on a fire escape. This fire escape fails, dropping him (as well as the clothing left to dry on the railing). Batman grabs the next railing and again, this second fire escape collapses. Exactly the same as the first, with the same clothing falling off. When he climbs onto the 'third' fire escape, we see he's only come down one level, not two. The scene was artificially lengthened by using two perspectives of the same stunt. This isn't the same as showing one explosion from multiple angles because it is timed/edited precisely to appear as a longer fall in continuous time, not as repetition of the same moment.

Edit Submitted by johnrosa
⇑
⇓

Revealing: When the Batmobile is in the parking lot, there are skid marks under the Batmobile revealing the previous takes.

Edit Submitted by Starchild Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Batman drives over the cop car, using his batmobile for the first time, he knocks the light bar off. Camera cuts and now the light bar is back on the car.

Edit Submitted by Starchild Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: After Bruce and Rachel kiss, as Rachel says, "He never came back at all", her hand is touching his face, but in the next shot, her hand is gone from his face.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Thomas Wayne dies, in his last two close-ups, there's a crack in the asphalt under his head, as well as another one on his left, that weren't there in the previous wideshot.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Bruce is pinned down under the burning log, the position and amount of flames on the log keeps changing, including some consecutive shots. The amount and position of the debris by his head also changes several times.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Thomas Wayne carries Bruce into the mansion, in the first shot, Bruce's legs are pointing outwards. In the next shot, they're hanging downwards.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Bruce and Rachel kiss, in the third shot, the fingers of Rachel's left hand can be seen on Bruce's neck, but in the previous shot, her hand was nowhere near his neck.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha Time
⇑
⇓

Audio problem: During Bruce's birthday party, the guests sing "Happy Birthday", but the song does not match their lips.

Edit Submitted by Kylantha