Corrected entry: When Gotham's citizens were being evacuated, there was an aerial shot that showed a gridlocked street (shot at Wacker and Wabash in Chicago) with many cars and individuals. In the next scene, Commissioner Gordon and the Mayor are speaking in his office. The view out his window are on the same streets (Wacker and Wabash) but with normal traffic flow.
Corrected entry: When Bruce is on the balcony at Dent's party he dumps his glass out over the ledge. However, when Rachel walks out and it shows Bruce's back, you can see there is a ledge that the champagne would have splattered on that is dry.
Correction: When the champagne is tossed out of the glass, there is no sound of liquid hitting the ground. Obviously Bruce tosses the liquid past the balcony's ledge.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bruce Wayne is standing on top outside of the building without his mask on you see his whole face. Once he puts the mask on the dark rings around his eyes magically appear black even though he didn't put any make-up on.
Correction: The black is part of the cowl/mask. See the scene in Batman Begins when Alfred hits the defective mask with a hammer (00:58:35). You can clearly see the black membrane in the eye holes.
Corrected entry: When Bruce first walks off onto his balcony during the party, he completely empties his glass over the edge. When Rachel comes out to speak with him, his glass still has a small amount of champagne left in it.
Correction: We do not see him completely empty his glass - he throws the champagne out with a flick of his wrist and it is more than possible that some remained inside. There is only a small amount left in the glass (less than there was before he threw some out), so it fits that some was thrown out but a small quantity was caught in the glass.
Corrected entry: When the Joker blows up the police station, in order to help him escape, everyone around and close to him, including his hostage, gets knocked out with the impact of the explosion, except him.
Corrected entry: After Gotham General is blown up; while Gordon is on the phone, he walks by what seems to be a boom crane on wheels behind him. Why would video production equipment be in front of a hospital? This thing surely didn't roll off a news van.
Corrected entry: When describing ways to fly into Asia, "South Korean smugglers operating out of Pyongyang" was a possibility. However, Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, not South.
Correction: So they're smugglers from South Korea who operate out of North Korea. Hardly implausible.
Corrected entry: When Batman is on the Batpod, he rides up to the shopping mall and starts shooting guns at the glass door. Inside, you can see the shopping mall beyond the glass doors, and next shot, the Batpod is driving through a concrete underpass. Next shot, the Batpod smashes through the glass doors of the shopping mall. The shot of the concrete underpass should not be there.
Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The building has outer doors that he goes through first, then up a lengthy wheelchair access ramp to the inner doors. As he goes through the second set of doors, you can see the ramp behind him.
Corrected entry: The bus slams into the wall backwards during the robbery. (1) It would never have had enough speed to break the wall while going in reverse due to the other buildings across the busy street. (2) They easily open the rear door that would have been damaged and or stuck shut due to the impact.
Correction: The bus goes through glass doors, not walls, and needs little speed to do so. It strikes the wall above the doors, breaking it up a bit, and then comes to a stop quickly. And since the bumper hit the doors and the roof hit the wall above, the bus' back door hit nothing on the way in, so there's no reason to assume the door would be jammed- especially given how little the bus is visibly damaged in the remaining scenes.
Corrected entry: Lau, who is video conferenced in the mobster meeting, seems to see the Joker. But how? All we have is a TV set in the room; where is the camera?
Correction: Just because the camera isn't immediately visible, it doesn't mean that there isn't one there; Lau would hardly set up a video link conference where he couldn't see the other participants. Lau wishes to control the meeting - given that, he would conceal the camera, making sure that none of the mob bosses could switch it off, cutting him out of proceedings.
Corrected entry: During the bank robbery in the beginning, the Joker's hair turns from brown to green within one shot.
Correction: Heath Ledger's normal hair color is brown. There are "tinges" of green in his hair for the first scene of the movie, that change depending upon which direction the light is hitting him. Much like iridescent cars.
Corrected entry: When Batman is about to dive off the building in hong kong to kidnap Lau, he is wearing a high pressure mask with breathing apparatus that cover his face. However when he finally crashes through the building, the mask and helmet change to the normal Batman mask.
Correction: He only wears his new Batman mask that Fox re-designed for him so that he can turn his head. There is no special breathing apparatus or high pressure mask; you can see this clearly when he puts his new headgear on. He's not that high up, he would need no special breathing equipment on a skyscraper or for his extraction on a low-altitude airplane (if he did, he would also need to bring equipment for Lau).
Corrected entry: Once inside Lau's building, Lau's bodyguards fire several shots at Batman while he is fighting. The bullets shatter the glass partitions inside the office but the exterior windows of the building, directly in the line of fire and only a few feet further than the partitions, are all entirely undamaged.
Correction: Previously submitted and corrected. The shots hit Batman and either embed in his suit or deflect away from it, never striking the building's outer glass. The shooters are professional bodyguards, standing still, aiming at a target just a few feet away. We have no reason to assume they missed.
Corrected entry: In the "Clowns are hostages" scene, in which Batman and Fox are using the cell phone sonar, there are no cell phones in the building. It's a construction site and the only people in the building are the Joker, the clowns, and the doctors. Even if each of them had a cell phone, Batman and Fox both see all of the empty floors of the building perfectly.
Corrected entry: In the scene with the exploding hospital, the Joker has rigged what seems like every room in at least the wing shown on our right (since the explosive charges set off one at a time). It would require an absurd number of man-hours setting up so many explosive charges without being discovered, but the Joker has only been in the business of terrorism for a very short while.
Corrected entry: When Two-Face has hold of Gordon's kid and is flipping the coin to "decide" who gets to live, he flips and catches it in his left hand. Between flips, there's a close-up of the kid's face, and Two-Face is stroking the kid's hair - with his left hand. No coin in sight.
Correction: During the flips, when Two-Face strokes the kid's hair, the coin is between his thumb and index finger.
Corrected entry: The Joker's hair length changes dramatically throughout the film. It is noticeably shorter in the police interrogation scene than in the rest of the film.
Correction: When a person's hair is under different conditions whether it be wet or blow dried, or if someone was laying on it for some time, changes in volume occur. The hair seems to change in length but it is only to match the conditions in which the character has been engaged.
Corrected entry: During the 'know your limits' speech Bruce takes his shirt off and we can see that he is covered in cuts and bruises, yet when he's on the boat a day or so later he has no marks on him what so ever.
Corrected entry: When Batman is using his sonar technology in the unfinished building near the end of the movie, the Joker's black eye make-up shows up on the image. However, it shouldn't, as there is no reason for this make-up to resonate differently than the paint on the rest of his face.
Correction: Without knowing what each type of make-up he uses is made of, there is no way we can be sure how each would resonate.
Corrected entry: In Batman Begins, Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) is seen with very bright blue eyes, but in The Dark Knight, the very same actor and character has brown eyes.
Correction: I re-watched this scene two times thinking the same thing. On closer inspection it is the dark lighting of the parking garage that makes his eyes appear brown. On some of the close-ups with the proper lighting (like when he is talking Batman) you can see the natural bright blue color of his eyes.
Correction: Wacker and Wabash are streets in Chicago, not in Gotham City. Just because they used a nearby location for the Mayor's office does not mean it is intended to represent a nearby part of Gotham.