Corrected entry: In the scene where Batman is on top of the building in China across from Lau's office he shoots approximately 3 timed explosives that stick to the exterior windows of Lau's office. When doing this he is at the top of a very distinctive building with "ribs" pointing up and over the top of the building itself. When Batman jumps off this building he glides across, away and down to Lau's office BUT as he gets closer to the building, just before crashing into Lau's office, it is the same one as he was standing on in the scene before.
Corrected entry: In Batman Begins, we see and hear Gordon's infant child (when Batman talks to Gordon at his home), and then 6 months later in The Dark Knight, he has two kids which appear to be about 7.
Correction: So Gordon has three children, the youngest of which is either not home or just not discovered when the family is taken.
Corrected entry: When 'Two Face' Dent is holding Gordon and family hostage, only the undamaged side of his face is visible, while the deformed portion is in shadow. However, the edge of the damaged side is partially visible, and it is clear that there are some undamaged areas that were damaged before.
Correction: I watched for this specifically, and there's nothing inconsistent about the heavily-shadowed side of his face.
Corrected entry: Two-Face has only one eyelid. After 30 seconds or so, this would begin to cause harm, and very soon, blindness and deformation of the eyeball. It would have been more realistic for him to have a dead eyeball on the left side.
Correction: This has already been corrected. If he only has one eyelid he has no choice but to leave it open and seeing as how he has only had the facial scarring for a short time period, it's reasonable to suggest his facial features are not yet further deteriorating.
Corrected entry: When Batman fires his spikes into Joker's face to get the upper hand I found it really odd that Joker did not have the spikes in his face, or at least some obvious injuries, as Batman saved Joker from falling to reel him up. This is because earlier in the film, the spikes are able to stick to walls, but they can't stick to human flesh now?
Corrected entry: When the Joker is riding away from the police station after he 'detonates' one of his henchmen, he is seen hanging out of the back of a squad car. For obvious reasons (possible escape) the back windows of a squad car are inoperable and the back doors can only be opened from the outside.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Commissioner Gordon says that Two Face killed "5 people, 2 cops." Two Face only killed 1 cop; he didn't kill Ramirez. He also killed Maroni's driver (and maybe Maroni indirectly). That equals 3 people, 1 cop.
Corrected entry: When the Joker is in the jail cell and the interrogation room with Batman, his hands are visible with paint stains and long nails. Once he escapes in the police car and is hanging out of the window he is wearing his purple leather gloves again.
Corrected entry: The Joker's suggested backstories of an abusive father and a gambling wife are taken straight from the graphic novel "The Killing Joke", which along with "The Man Who Laughs" were the main influences for the Joker's portrayal.
Correction: In the graphic novel "The Killing Joke" the Joker starts out as a failed stand-up comedian who turns to a life of crime to make ends meet, there is no mention of "an abusive father and a gambling wife".
Corrected entry: In the scene near the end where Two-Face is holding the coin up to show the police officer and his family, the coin switches from the clean side to the burned side when the camera switches back onto Two-Face.
Correction: Ample time for the switch to be made off camera.
Corrected entry: Every scene of the Joker shows him with very yellow discolored and crooked teeth, except in the video tape close up from the news footage, which is running on a loop in the equipment bay area, where his teeth are straight and white.
Correction: All of the televised video shots are in black & white, so you wouldn't be able to see that his teeth are yellow. Even the Joker's red smile appears dark almost black on the videos.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Batman is interrogating the Joker, when the Joker is explaining to Batman how they are similar, there is a shot in which the Joker's vest it folded up, revealing a suspender strap. The shot changes to Batman, and when the camera returns to the Joker no strap is visible.
Corrected entry: The film contains several Bond movie references: the "skyhook" technology that Batman uses to extricate Lau is similar to that used by Felix Leiter at the end of "Thunderball", and Joker's hidden blade in the shoe is very reminiscint of Rosa Klebb's weapon of choice in "From Russia With Love".
Correction: The bootknife could just as easily be a reference to Kevin Kline's use of one in Wild Wild West, which is to say it's not a reference to either. The skyhook is a reference to the actual technology developed by the military, not to some movie which mimicked the same technique.
Corrected entry: As Harvey Dent is being transported in the SWAT van, the Joker shoots at the van many times with various guns. Each time they show the interior of the van, there are jagged bullet holes tearing through the sheet metal from the Joker's bullets, yet from the outside they show that there are no bullet holes.in fact, no visible damage at all. To top this off, as the bullets rip holes in the side of the van, the cop inside inexplicably says to Dent: "Don't worry, they'll need something a lot bigger than that to get through to us", right before the Joker uses his 'bazooka'(actually an RPG launcher).
Correction: There are dents from the bullets. There are no holes, no tears. These would be much harder to spot from the outside than an actual hole would be. Given the dark colouration of the van and the badly lit environment, they simply don't show up.
Corrected entry: When Batman and the Joker have their final confrontation towards the end of the movie, Batman throws the Joker off the building and he falls a significant distance before Batman saves him with his "zipline" device and hauls him back up. But we see Batman pulling up his zipline with his hands only a few times before the Joker is pulled the entire distance back up. Those few tugs of the zipline would have pulled the Joker up perhaps several feet, not the long distance he originally fell.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Gordon and his officers rescue the consultant (Reese) who's about to reveal Batman's identity, they rescue Engel (Anthony Michael Hall) from the TV studio also. He is seen with Gordon and Reese in the police SUV when Bruce Wayne saves the day with his Lamborghini. However, Engel all of a sudden appears as one of the hostages being hustled into the school bus at Gotham Hospital, and is shown in the Joker's hostage video.
Corrected entry: Maroni was dropped from however many stories up, and an audible "crack!" is heard. However, we see him later walking without crutches. He does have a cane, but doesn't even use it while walking around to get into his car.
Correction: He may be wearing a cast boot over the cast on his leg. These boots cover the cast and help support the leg making it easier to walk even without crunches or a cane.
Corrected entry: In the scene of the assassination attempt the Joker, without his makeup, is disguised as one of the police officers who will give the gun salute. Even if we can suspend our disbelief that nobody recognized him specifically as being the Joker (even though he does have the same facial scar), how on earth could he have gotten himself chosen as one of the cops who would give the salute and therefore hold a loaded gun literally next to a high-ranking city official? I'd think that the police force would double-check and then triple-check who got selected to hold a gun in that type of situation. How did he get past that and fool everyone?
Correction: He and his thugs abducted and detained the men who were selected and took their place. He didn't show up at the police station, sans makeup, and apply for a position in the 21-gun salute then, after being legitimately selected, somehow convince the other six officers to fire on the mayor with him.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Alfred is burning documents in the 'batcave' furnace, it starts with furnace open where you can see him shoveling papers into a burning pile. The next shot shows him closing the door to the furnace, except there is no visible flame in the window. In the next shots the flames are visible again through the window.
Corrected entry: In the scene with the 2 ferries, after the black guy throws the detonator out of the window, you can see Dr. Jonathan Crane(the scarecrow) standing in what appears to be a guards uniform, looking panicked.
Correction: No, you can't. There's a vague resemblance, but it's clearly not Cillian Murphy.
Correction: I thought this at first, too, but if you watch closely in the wider shots, you see that these are actually two 'twin' buildings.