Shooter

Shooter (2007)

23 mistakes since 22 Jan '17, 00:00

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Continuity mistake: When Bob is preparing to shoot, the bolt for the rifle is out, but in the next shot, it is closed.

Factual error: When Swagger is fleeing from the police in the car wash after being shot, the radio says that he is at a car wash at 9th and Girard. There is no such intersection. On Girard Ave, 9th street picks up south and north of that street.

Continuity mistake: Swagger was shot in the upper right chest and lower right abdomen, making him limp badly. When the teacher stitches him up, there is only the bullet hole in his chest. He also miraculously recovers immediately.

Factual error: When Swagger is about ready to shoot the can of stew he is using a CheyTac .408 with a muzzle break about 8 feet from his dog. At that range it would destroy the dog's hearing.

Movie Medic

Plot hole: When Agent Memphis is about to be executed they ask him if he needs to "Piss" so as to not have government-used drugs in his system before he commits suicide. They even mention writing a suicide note for him. He's had seven shades beaten out of him though and was kidnapped whilst on the phone, mid-conversation and with possible witnesses. Surely if it wasn't the first time they had done this then they would have taken more care to make sure it wasn't a complete fake-out.

Other mistake: When Swagger is dialing in his sight to shoot the Denty Moore stew he is dialing in the windage but they show the elevation moving.

Movie Medic

Other mistake: If you look at the license plate on the government car that mark Wahlburg is driving, they are not government plates but regular Pennsylvania license plates. The next scene the driver tells the FBI guy that they are government plates which they are not.

Factual error: It is stated that Colonel Johnson cannot be charged because the crime was committed outside the United States. The movie is treating him like he is a regular American citizen when he is in a fact a military member. All active military members, like the colonel, are subject to uniformed military code of justice no matter where the crime was committed. Anyone who attempted to prevent the colonel from being charged would be arrested.

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Suggested correction: Crimes are evaluated on a crime per crime basis - Military courts have exclusive authority over all crimes considered purely military crimes which include sedition, failure to obey an order, or insubordinate conduct, among others. However, most crimes violate both civilian and military law and in those cases it may be tried by a military court, a civilian court or both. In this case, this would have fallen under International Law and could be tried by civilian courts although I believe it would be tried by the Hague as crimes against humanity.

Revealing mistake: In the stolen FBI black car Mark Wahlberg is driving over the guardrail into the river the trunk flies open, revealing the inside of the car trunk. The mistake is that everything inside the trunk has been stripped out including the carpet because the car is going to be in the water for the film.

Factual error: In the mountain scene, Wahlberg shoots a sniper through the scope. This is a common myth in Hollywood. Tested by Mythbusters. It is impossible to shoot up a sniper scope due to the amount of glass and the thickness and angles of said glass. The bullet is deflected, even at point-blank range.

Character mistake: In the opening scene, Donnie the spotter gives the range to the the truck as "870 yards and closing." It cannot be "closing" as the camera angle through the scope shows the vehicle driving right to left but definitely diagonally away from them, not toward them. This is further reinforced because the adjusted range for where they choose to take the shot is given as 900 yards. (00:03:45)

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Suggested correction: I think "closing" here means closing in on the US convoy not necessarily actually getting closer to the snipers themselves.

Factual error: In the movie the senator cannot be charged for the conspiracy because the crime took place outside the United States. In reality, the senator would be charged with conspiracy regardless of where the actual crime took place. Simply being overseas does not give an American citizen immunity.

Factual error: During the mountain ambush scene, Agent Memphis gets shot while wearing a steel plate. In reality, he probably would've been seriously injured if not killed by the fragments (called "spall" or "spalling") of the bullet when it hit the plate.

Matdan97

Continuity mistake: When Memphis is being tortured, you can see when they force him to drink water that they've pulled several of his teeth out. When Swagger rescues him, he has a full set of teeth.

Other mistake: When Michael Pena is looking at the photo of Swagger after winning the Wimbledon Cup, it identified Swagger as "Sgt Major Bob Lee Swagger, USMC, from Gillette, WY." Two things are wrong: (1) Swagger is wearing civvies, if he's in the Corps, he should be wearing his uniform; and, (2) Swagger is supposed to be a Gunnery Sgt, not a Sgt Major. (00:44:20)

Character mistake: At his cabin, Swagger asks if the Suburban has the big engine, the 8 liter. There's no 8 liter engine option for a Suburban.

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Suggested correction: Not in 2007 (when the movie was released) but the 2006 range included an 8.1 L / 320 BHP engine. (This is only a valid correction if that truck was a 2006 model. Can anyone comment?).

Character mistake: Mark Wahlberg is asking to take a pic of the engine in the Suburban near the beginning of the film. He asks if this if this is the new 8.0L when in fact this is actually a half ton Suburban which was only equipped with a 5.3L.

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, when Mark Wahlberg shoots a driver, a bit of blood splatters onto the rear windshield of the car he's driving. But in the very next shot, there's much more blood.

MikeH

Factual error: In the assassination scene, it is shown that the Russian sniper used the Barrett M82A1 in the .60 BMG. There is no .60 BMG. Barrett M82A1 is .50 BMG.

Mr. Rate: Would've been a bad job to take, though.
Nick Memphis: How come?
Mr. Rate: Whoever took that shot's probably dead now. That's how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.
Nick Memphis: And you know this for a fact?
Mr. Rate: Still got the shovel.

Friso94

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Trivia: When Swagger is recuperating from the makeshift operation, it's shown that he has a third nipple below the left nipple.

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Question: In the movie they state the colonel cannot be charged because the crime was committed outside of the United States. All active members of the US military like the colonel are subject to the uniformed military code of justice no matter where the crime was committed, so how did the colonel prevent the military justice system from being able to charge him?

Answer: You are completely correct. This is a clear mistake, the colonel could (and would) most certainly be charged for his crimes.

BaconIsMyBFF

Though unlike the movie, it's not up the attorney to decide if a military member gets charged, it's up to the judge advocate general.

Actually it's not a mistake. The colonel is not a member on active duty in the service. He's ex military. He's the one running the contractor group that carries out the senator's dirty deeds.

Answer: Receiving retirement pay and being in the IRR confers jurisdiction, even over retired military personnel.

Answer: "The colonel" was not active duty military, BUT as a retiree he is still subject to the UCMJ.

How are retirees subject to the UCMJ?

They're not, generally. Some service members who've served for more than 20 years but less than 30 are or were subject to the UCMJ. There was a recent legal opinion overruling this though. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/09/new-bombshell-legal-opinion-says-military-retirees-cant-be-court-martialed.html.

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