Corrected entry: In the scene where Jim Gordon caught the Joker (after the car chase), we can see Gordon wearing "SWAT" glasses, but a few seconds later, he speaks with someone else and now wearing standard glasses.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Bruce Wayne is driving his Lamborghini through the city streets to protect Reese, his car's license plate says Illinois.
Correction: Actually, it says "Gotham" in cursive lettering similar to the Illinois plate.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Joker sets fire to his half of the money with Lau sitting on top, where did the money come from? Lau took the mobs' money out of Dent's jurisdiction. Joker had time to kidnap Lau, discover the location of the money, divide it in half and stack it to stage Lau's demise?
Corrected entry: In the shot of the construction building where the Joker is watching the boats in the harbor, Bruce uses the cellular waves as a sonar and you can see the S.W.A.T. designs on the back of the officers' vests. This is impossible due to the fact that the S.W.A.T. lettering is flat and would not show up as another color. Instead, almost all surfaces would show up as one color.
Corrected entry: As the Joker begins the explosions to destroy Gotham General Hospital, bricks are raining down all over the street, yet the car and ambulance parked in front suffer no damage.
Correction: Watched this scene closely twice now... the Joker is standing a good distance down the street when he sets off the explosions, and there are no good close-up shots of the two vehicles after the explosions. It's not possible to tell the extent of the damage, and it is also possible - although unlikely - that the two vehicles didn't get struck with any of the debris.
Corrected entry: *Spoiler alert* During the car chase scene while transporting Dent the armored truck says GPD (Gotham Police Department) but later Gordon is told he is the new commissioner and his turtleneck says GCPD (Gotham City Police Department).
Correction: This happens throughout the film, but it's not uncommon in other cities. In Baltimore, the Fire Department has some equipment marked BFD and others marked BCFD, and still others marked BALTIMORE CITY FD, so as not to confuse it with Baltimore County materiel. The license plates are marked BFS (Baltimore Fire Service). Go figure!
Corrected entry: In the scene of the assassination attempt the Joker, without his makeup, is disguised as a police officer. And yet not one single person, not even one of the legit police officers, ever notices that something is wrong? Here is this guy with the same facial scar as the Joker right in front of them and nobody recognizes him?
Correction: Joker's appearance as a police officer is markedly different from that of his white-faced look. The fact that you and I recognize him in uniform is because we know Heath Ledger, and the plot demands it. In our reality, we'd have a very difficult time recognizing the clown from our kid's birthday party when his make up is off and he's shopping at Wal-Mart. Also, he's replaced all the cops in the honor guard with his henchmen, and Gotham is a big city where no cop knows every other cop, so it's even easier to not recognize that something isn't quite right.
Corrected entry: Although the Joker is by far the most popular Batman villain, this is only his second major feature film appearance.
Correction: Third, sorry. The Dark Knight, Tim Burton's Batman back in 1989 and the 1966 movie based on the Adam West TV series.
Corrected entry: During the opening heist, when one of the robbers is suddenly hit by the bus that smashes through the front of the bank, watch closely. The bus comes nowhere close to actually hitting the man. (00:05:50)
Corrected entry: Batman scans a shattered bullet in a wall and finds a fingerprint on it. Firing the bullet would have certainly destroyed the fingerprint, as the bullet would be in contact with the barrel. Part of the fingerprint is seen on an area which would be in direct contact with the barrel. Airflow over the bullet would also more than likely destroy a fingerprint.
Corrected entry: During the interrogation scene, right after Gordon leaves, the lights turn on. But, a split second before batman slams the joker's face into the table, the joker squints his eyes. It's possible that Heath Ledger could've done it because he knows that his head is going to be slammed down so he makes a face to prepare for it.
Correction: Well, you try sitting in a really dark room and then have somebody switch on the lights. You'd squint - everybody squints. It's a natural reflex under those circumstances.
Corrected entry: In the prologue, when the Joker is acting as one of the thugs, he has combed back, tidy, brown hair. But then as soon as the bus driver crashes through the building and opens the door, the Joker's hair turns green, but still tidy and combed. And then when he goes up to the bank manager and takes off his mask, his hair then changes again, to messy and uncombed.
Correction: The Jokers hair is messy because he removed his mask, he slides it up above his hair which messes it up.
Corrected entry: When Bruce Wayne and Lucius Fox are looking at new Batman equipment, after Bruce picks up one of the arm plates, he presses a button which makes the blades come out, and as he does this, he is holding it towards himself, so the blades are facing him, but in the next shot, he is holding it to the side of his body, and so when he pushes another button, the blades shoot out and hit the wall, when they should have hit him in the chest.
Correction: Not so. Just before the shot changes, we see the arm plate turn away from him.
Corrected entry: When the SWAT truck is pushed into the river, you can see the shadow of the helicopter that's filming the shot on the wall just above where the truck fell into the river.
Corrected entry: One side of Harvey's face is severely burnt, also leaving his eye without an eyelid, if this was the case that the fire got so close to his eye to take the skin off then his actual eye should have been equally damaged.
Correction: The eyelid was burnt to a point that it could not be saved, but had protected the eye beneath. The hospital would have removed such a damaged eyelid.
Corrected entry: This one bothered me throughout the trailer and in the film. Batman is driving through the mall-looking area on the bat-pod and shoots out the glass to the doors, the shot cuts to him riding up a ramp and then back to Batman now crashing through the glass he had just shot. The shots seems out of place.
Corrected entry: During the bank robbery, the camera operator's shadow is visible on the vault door as he/she passes it. (00:04:10)
Correction: Jim Gordon normally wears prescription glasses so he must have put them back on during those more than ample "few seconds" since he didn't need the safety glasses anymore.
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