Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

127 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: When John and Lucy are having an argument at the start of the film, Lucy's hair is over her shoulder or not over her shoulder, depending on the shot. (00:04:20)

Ssiscool

Factual error: In the beginning of the movie after the scene where John watches his daughter go inside, he is called on his police radio. The gentleman on the other end is in fact talking to him on a land-line telephone and not a radio, but from Johns end you hear the mic being keyed on and off. Police radios cannot make or place telephone calls and vice-versa. (00:06:45 - 00:07:50)

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Suggested correction: Although very unpopular and very unlikely to have been installed in a Police car, some radios can indeed ring landline telephones. They were known as "Mobile Radio Telephones" but they tended to be extremely unreliable.

Continuity mistake: John throws Matt to the floor when Matt is first being shot at. John lays on Matt to protect him and you can see that John's legs are off to Matt's left and are lying flat on the floor. The scene cuts to a view that's from behind their feet and now John's legs are no longer flat on the floor, his lower body is turned and he is lying on his right hip. (00:11:20)

Nick Bylsma

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Continuity mistake: When McClane knocks the fridge over so it's on its side near the start, his head is above the top (side) of the fridge. Camera cuts and it is well below the top (side) of the fridge. (00:12:45)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When McClane tells Matt to get ready to run when in the apartment, McClane's position changes instantly. (00:14:05)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When Running to the car after the apartment shootout, Farrel gets in the car and McClane is not around by the car as we can see the car. However when Farrel shuts his door, McClane is already in the car. In the previous shot we could see McClane behind Farrel. (00:15:35)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When the one bad guy has got McClane near the start in the alleyway, there is one shot where the bad guy is facing the other way. He goes forwards feet first for one quick shot then goes backwards to hit the dumpster. (00:16:05)

Ssiscool

Continuity mistake: When in the traffic jam, just before the first accidents, the background doesn't move in the shots of Ferral, but it does, and quite fast, in the shots of McClane. (00:22:00)

Ssiscool

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Continuity mistake: In the traffic jam in the beginning of the film (right after all the lights have changed to green), the car next to McClane's is black/dark. But a few seconds later when you see it from a helicopter, it has changed to white. (00:22:30 - 00:23:30)

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Continuity mistake: During the traffic jam scene, when the truck crashes against the taxi, the view inside McClane's car shows the taxi colliding against the car, dragging it away violently. From the aerial angle, the taxi doesn't touch McClane's car at all. (00:22:35)

Sacha

Plot hole: The hackers cause a massive traffic jam by manipulating the street lights. Yet, only minutes later, the streets are conveniently empty when McClane is being chased by the chopper. Sure, one or two streets were secured by police, but the chase scene goes through many more streets. (00:23:15 - 00:38:55)

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the scene where Bruce Willis's own car is involved with a crash between a dustcart and taxi you can see his driver's door opening during the aerial shot after he has left the location. (00:24:25)

Continuity mistake: During the traffic jam early in the movie, John and Matt get out of their car and walk away on foot. In the next aerial shot looking down, you see someone stepping out of the very same car they were in. (00:25:27)

Continuity mistake: When McClane first brings Farrell to the Cyber division, McClane has a cut over his eyebrow that he gets from a fight scene later in the film. [This mistake is pointed out in the DVD audio commentary: this scene was filmed after said fight scene was completed. Still a mistake, though.] (00:29:00)

Cubs Fan

Factual error: The "police" radios shown in the police cars are actually amateur band radios on an amateur band frequency. (00:34:20)

Audio problem: After the terrorist in the helicopter opens fire on John and Matthew, a policeman yells something about backup into his radio. What he's saying doesn't match up with his mouth. (00:37:45)

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Continuity mistake: When McClane is driving the police down the ramp to the tunnel so he can elude the helicopter, the car's windshield doesn't have any bullet holes or cracks in it, even though it did just a few seconds earlier. (00:37:55)

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Continuity mistake: While McClane and Farrell are in FBI Police car 279, the windshield's rearview mirror repeatedly vanishes and reappears. (00:38:25)

Super Grover

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Continuity mistake: When McClane and Farrell are fired upon during the escort to DHS, Agent Johnson is killed and slumps against the steering wheel, and in the next shot the deceased's foot slips off the brake so the car jolts forward and hits the FBI's SUV in front of them. Four shots later, in the interior shot from the back seat directly behind McClane ducking inside the car, we see Agent Johnson sitting upright very much alive, at the left side of the screen. (00:38:35)

Cubs Fan

Revealing mistake: In the tunnel, as John does the 180 handbrake turn, if you look on the floor you will see skid marks exactly where he performs the 180 turn. Clearly from previous takes. (00:40:00)

Ssiscool

Thomas Gabriel: [Probing a gunshot wound in McClane's shoulder with his gun.] On your tombstone, it should say "Always at the wrong place at the wrong time."
John McClane: How about... [grunts.] Yippee-ki-yay... Motherfucker! [Grabs the gun and fires it through himself and into Gabriel.].

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Trivia: The FBI agent who is assigned to escort John & Matthew through D.C introduces himself as "Special Agent Johnson." Then John says "Agent Johnson? Great." This is a nod to the first "Die Hard," which featured two FBI agents who were both named Johnson. (00:31:55)

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Question: When the FBI take McClane and Farrell and the voice of Maggie Q is recognised by Matt - how does she know McClane is with Matt? She says to get her a line to the FBI driver and get me all the info on John McClane. At which point did they even know John McClane's name or who he was?

Answer: The radio line mentioned the officer's name in the seconds after Gabriel's voice recognition picked up Farrell's name.

Answer: They would have called ahead to DHS to advise them that a NYPD office of SO SO name would be coming to hoover building escorting Mr Feral. I would only assume when they said his name and Matt's name over the police band it triggered a hit for Matt's name, and then they listened to it, causing them to know who is riding in the LEO car. Hypothetically of course.

Answer: They sent 5 guys to kill Matt Farrell. 2 survived and stated there was a guy with Farrell as the reason they didn't kill him. I always figured, up until that point, that they had checked to see who was dispatched to Farrell's address before they got to him.

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