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The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - 17 corrections

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Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

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When Pamela Landy is telling Bourne his "real birthdate" (4/15/71) on the phone, Vosen is wiretapping the call and listening to it. Although it is the encoded address of the training facility, Vosen does not react. But after the failed meeting at Tudor City Pl. he needs to ask his crew about the date and is shocked immediately then. [She's listening in to the conversation looking for information that will help her bring in Bourne. His birthday is completely inconsequential, she could get that from his record if she needed it. It's only later that she realizes is was not his birthdate after all, and the significance of the numbers given.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
Near the end of the movie Bourne goes to 415, East 71st Street in Manhattan. We see him outside of the building which is a modern skyscraper. Once inside he has a conversation with the man that "recruited" him in a white room. When the men that are after him break into the room, he jumps through an older type window onto a rooftop. The window is completely out of place for the type of building he is in. When he falls off the rooftop and into the East River, his fall is only forty to sixty feet, contrary to falling from a roof of a modern skyscraper in downtown Manhattan. In addition the address of the building is several blocks away from the East river. [Not true. The front is a skyscraper type, but the training facility is a "wing" and could be a different architectural style. Additionally a wing of a building wouldn't have to be only at 415 location, it could span the rest of the 400 block. When he jumps through the window he lands in the alley/walkway between buildings and heads up a fire escape of a nearby building, which would presumably be the 500 block, which is right beside the river. Google map it.]
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At the chase in Tangier, Nicky Parsons walks up the street. When you see her from behind, you can spot a man filming her in his mobile. [Not sure how this can be considered as a "movie mistake". Perhaps the man is following her and keeping her under surveillance. The video (or even photo) is proof of the target/subject. Otherwise, as strange as it sounds, this can happen in real life. I have friends who like to take videos with their camera.]
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In the paper file regarding Project Blackbriar Jason Bourne's bloodtype is noted as A +, but on David Webb's dogtags its O neg. Even though the names are different (he is under cover and all) it would still be important that they get the bloodtype right. [Since he's undercover, having dogtags with bloodtype O is perfect. It means he can use blood from the "universal donor" bloodtype of O. Bloodtype of O can be donated to anybody, but can only receive O type for donations. If he's listed as O he can only receive O in an emergency, thus, since his bloodtype is really A, he can take O type with no contraindications. The RH factor wouldn't matter since he's not about to become pregnant.]
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When Bourne has broken into the office in Madrid, there is a shot of two surveillance camera monitors. As the armed men arrive in their car, the surveillance camera follows their movement and zoom both in and out, despite no-one being around to operate them. The camera actions are more complicated than simple motion-tracking software. [Most security cameras can be controlled by remote.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
Near the end of the film, an "asset" is called upon to kill Bourne. He is seen in the final car chase and eventual crash with Bourne escaping and the "asset" bloody and near death in an SUV. In a following scene where Bourne is about to jump off a roof as a last resort, the same "asset" is holding a gun on him. [Then quite patently the 'asset' wasn't near death at all. What you have to consider is that Bourne had him with no chance of escape, so the 'asset' simply exaggerated the effects of the crash so as not to be shot.]
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After two big bust ups involving CIA ops, Bourne casually passes through passport control in Tangiers. A high profile target like him shouldn't just be able to waltz in and out without someone in security doing a photo id check under Vosen's orders. [The CIA does not have any jurisdiction or authority in Morocco. They can ask the for the authorities to look out for him but there is no guarantee they will or even if they would spot him. The training Bourne has makes it extremely difficult (as seen in the film) for the CIA to take him out regardless of what precautions they take.]
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We see a lot of cars crashing into each other, among others a brand new Audi driving off a roof and falling both on its back and on its roof - but not ONE airbag is deployed. [Airbags are to deploy on a frontal impact, some newer cars with side curtain airbags can deploy if t-boned, but most are only for a frontal impact. I have seen airbags deploy when a person hit a curb at walking speed, I have also seen airbags NOT deploy when hit at an angle from the side. Most cars have the airbag sensor in the front bumper, and if not hit in that spot, they won't deploy. Also, some vehicles have an airbag defeat switch to deactivate if the owner wants. Rear end collisions usually DON'T deploy airbags, and I've even seen rollovers with no deployment. It's unlikely, but not impossible that the airbags didn't deploy.]
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When Nicky is searching the government database for 'Neal Daniels' location, his first name is spelt 'Neal'. Later on, when in the report on Bourne's induction into the programme, it is spelt 'Neil'. It's highly unlikely a spelling mistake would happen in official government documents. [Why not? Matter of fact, it happens all the time. Those documents are typed up by people, just like any other document.]
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In the scene when Noah Vosen leads the team to Tudor City to capture Jason Bourne, he is using a radio to talk to his team. The camera shows him holding the radio, which has a green LED (receive). When he transmits, the LED should change to red, but it does not. [I use a radio where I work that has a green LED at all times. It merely indicates that the unit is on and it only turns red if there is a problem with the radio.]
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In the early scene where Landy was instructing Vosen's team to look, via their computers, at the various pieces of paper inside Ross's apartment, they found the words "Blackbriar" and "per N.D." in those papers, thereby confirming that Ross's source was Neal Daniels. However, the "Blackbriar" papers shouldn't be in Ross's apartment at all because: (1) Ross met Daniels in Turin in the morning (where he got to know of "Blackbriar" for the first time and wrote it in his papers), then returned to London immediately afterwards, then went straight back to the Guardian office where he received Bourne's call and met Bourne in Waterloo station immediately thereafter. He never went home with his papers which were in his bag at all times. (2) When Ross later got shot in the Waterloo station, Bourne was beside his corpse and took all the papers from Ross's bag (including the "Blackbriar" papers). So the "Blackbriar" papers should be in Bourne's sole possession, with no one or nowhere else. [They were looking at Ross's notes that lead up to his meeting with Daniels, not his notes from the meeting. Obviously he didn't just run into the guy in Turin and sit him down for an impromptu interview, they had arrangements.]
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The CIA can apparently pluck the single word "Blackbriar" from the billions of telephone calls made every day in near-real time, but neither Vosen or Landy seem to know that a major UK paper has printed a three part expose on Treadstone and one of their assassins, Jason Bourne. Jason used this article to find the reporter, Simon Ross. [They only traced agents calls, not billions of citizens, and the article had only been posted for one day, so they found out pretty quickly.]
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In the scene where the CIA thinks they are chasing Bourne to Tudor City, the deputy director is in a black Lincoln Navigator. It is obviously very dirty when they get in, but a few minutes later in another shot of the vehicle, it's very clean. [All of the cars are black Lincoln Navigators Vosens were dirty but the other ones were clean.]
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In the scene where Noah Vosen is waiting for Bourne at Tudor city, Bourne calls Noah from his office telephone. Noah looks at the incoming call on his mobile phone screen and yet he could not recognize his own office telephone number. And tries to locate Bourne in the street. [The office phone was one of hundreds of extensions inside the CIA's New York HQ. It is highly likely that it is a with-held number and therefore Vosen wouldn't have known it was his office phone that was calling him.]
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In the beginning of the movie, Bourne comes out of a door, in Moscow, wounded in the shoulder. But in the end of the Supremacy, he is in New York talking to Pam Landy having recovered from his shoulder wound he received in Moscow. [It's made extremely clear that the opening section of this film occurs prior to his conversation with Landy in New York in the epilogue of Supremacy. The conversation even reappears in this film as an integral part of the storyline.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
In the London tube station, Matt Damon buys a mobile phone from a stand and puts it in the journalist's pocket. Matt Damon calls it and starts giving him directions. Since cell phones take a while to activate, this would not be possible. [He buys a pre-paid cell phone from the stand. These types of phones are activated as soon as you pull them out of the box and enter in the phone card number.]
Edit Corrected by Nick Bylsma
Near the end of the film where Jason Bourne meets Pamela Landy at the building where the secret program started, it is light out as he hands her the evidence to convict Noah Vosen. A few scenes later as Jason jumps out of a window to escape, it is night-time. [And in that time Landy managed to fax the report out of the building and Bourne found the doctor, had several flashbacks, learned everything, and ran out. It is feasible to get dark.]
Edit Corrected by shortdanzr