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Live Free or Die Hard (2007) - 92 mistakes

Directed by Len Wiseman, starring Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Timothy Olyphant (add more)

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

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Other: 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.

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Continuity: While McClane is taking control of the Freight liner during the final chase, he jumps onto the driver's steps, and we see the driver's side window is closed, he shoots the driver and whips the door open, and the window is now open. He climbs into the truck and slams the door, and the window is once again closed. There was obviously no time for the window to be opened and closed during the fight.

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Audio problem: As McClane attempts to escape from the car in the lift shaft, a henchman shoots at him. As McClane hides between the seats, he cries, "Motherf**ker!" However, McClane's lips aren't moving. ('Unrated'/'Ultimate Action Edition' version only).

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Factual error: The F-35 JSF is shown having 2 guns coming from the side of the intakes and can fire for a long time. The M61A2 Vulcan Cannon on the JSF is above the left air intake and can only fire for 4.8 seconds before it runs out of ammo.

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Continuity: In the scene where the semi driven by McClane is chased by the F35, the semi hits multiple vehicles causing it to damage. The driver side headlights are smashed and the bumber and fender are almost scraping the ground. In the next shot, headlights, bumber and fender are fine.

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Continuity: At the very end when McClane is talking to Farrell, he has three steri-strips over his left eye, but when he goes back to his daughter he only has two.

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Other: If the natural gas could be rerouted to McClane's position at the national grids control center, there are two major problems. The gas would not self-ignite on it's way there as pictured and secondly, the sheer momentum of that massive amount of gas in those long pipes would cause a massive leak at the endpoint. However, after the first (relatively small considering the total energy in all the gas) explosion everything goes back to normal without one giant amount of gas erupting.

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Factual error: As Gabriel is starting the download from Woodlan to the "portable" server set up by his men, the progress bar shows "0 of 500TB used". Even with today's harddrives, one would need to carry 250 to 500 harddrives to reach this capacity.

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Continuity: When John and Matt are in the patrol cars and Gabriel has them rerouted to a blocked road, there are no cars on the road besides the patrol cars, but throughout the scene when the camera cuts you can see traffic moving smoothly along with them.

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Revealing: Airbags are made out of a super strong fabric material with heavy weaving. There's no way McClane would be able to tear it. You can see the texture difference between McClane's fake airbag and the real passenger side airbag.

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Audio problem: Why does the whole city make a 'whooom' noise when the power turns off? And each block makes exactly the same sound.

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Factual error: Where the film shows the power going out on the Eastern seaboard of the US, it shows the lights going out at an airport. At the airport the tail of an aircraft with the Air New Zealand logo on it is seen. Air New Zealand does not fly to any airport on the Eastern seaboard of the USA.

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