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Toward the beginning of the film, Watson enters Holmes' room on Baker Street that's full of eccentricities; looking out the window is a mannequin to act as Holmes' doppelganger. This idea was first used in the short story "The Empty Room" found in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". The dummy was used again in the short story "The Mazarin Stone" found in "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". See more...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) - 15 mistakes

Directed by Guy Ritchie (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Continuity: The handkerchief on Moriarty's chess table changes positions between shots.

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Continuity: Position of hat changes when Watson wakes up at his wedding.

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Factual error: When Sherlock and Watson go to Paris, you see a oversight with the Sacre Coeur being constructed. The movie is taking place in 1891, the building of the Sacre Coeur started in 1895.

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Continuity: The first time Sherlock shows his camouflage suit, its brown colour changes between the first and second shot. The first one matches exactly that of the room, but the second doesn't. Clearly the first one was achieved with a green-chroma-suit, and the second angle was a coloured fabric.

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Continuity: On the wedding day, the bottle under Holmes' car changes positions between shots.

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Revealing: When the movie starts, there's an aerial view of London's rooftops. The smoke coming out of the very first chimney doesn't move, revealing it's a painting.

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Other: When Holmes and his gang are running from the Germans through the forest, one of Moriarity's German lackeys yells that it is time to introduce them to "Little Hansel" (in subtitles). Strangely, what he really yelled was, "zu viele Fuchse fur euch paar Huhner," or "too many foxes for those few chickens." Not sure why they made such a change in dialogue (where the German phrase was ever thought to fit in).

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Factual error: In the scene at the peace-conference, Sherlock says that he had been to one of the professor's lectures in Oslo, although Oslo was called Christiania during Sherlock's entire life period, and wasn't renamed before 1925.

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Factual error: In the scene where Holmes enters the factory in Germany, a map can be seen on a table with small German black-red-gold tricolor flags sticking up from it. However, the flag of the 2nd German Empire at the time of the film's setting (1891) was black, white, and red, and was so from 1871-1918.

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Factual error: In the scene where Renč was dying, Dr. Watson examines the dying man and the poisonous arrow that hit him, and concludes that the venom used was curare. Curare is a paralysing poison that causes the body to relax to the degree that respiratory muscles stop contracting and the victim dies of asphyxiation. René on the other hand perished in strong cramps and foaming of his mouth.

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Audio problem: In the beginning when Holmes "shoots" the dog, Gladstone, with a dart and Watson says "What have you done to Gladstone now?", look closely and Watson's mouth doesn't move.

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Continuity: When Holmes is envisaging himself being pushed over the edge by Moriarty his left boot is correct, but just as he falls off of the ledge he is wearing a black and white trainer (sneaker).

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Continuity: When Sherlock is fighting the Russian, he falls on a cart filled with seeds, which cover his right eye. When the angle changes, a frame later, the eye is clean.

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Plot hole: Irene Adler died of a type of tuberculosis that was so lethal that she coughed up blood and died within minutes. Moriarty picks up the blood stained handkerchief and later gives it to Sherlock who is seen sniffing it sentimentally. This lethal variant doesn't seem to affect either of them.

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Continuity: In the sequence where Holmes and Watson escape Meinhardt's arms and munitions factory with the help of the gypsies, Watson is clipped by a bullet in the slo-mo sequence at the bottom of his rib-cage on the right side. Later, in the train, he is seen stitching his wound on the left side.

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