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GoldenEye (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: Bond leans against a stone wall in the weapons factory, and it flexes.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond's hair length changes as he goes through the cabin door on the boat.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond acquires gloves after falling out of the plane.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jack Wade shows up at the end of the movie, his helicopters don't make any noise until they are actually on screen. A helicopter anywhere in their general vicinity would have been making a constant, loud noise all the while.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bond is escaping the chemical facility at the beginning of the film, he manages to get into a small airplane. The Russian pilot pulls his sidearm out to stop Bond but Bond manages to shoot one of the motorcyclists with it. The sound is that of a silenced gun, but there was no silencer on the pilot's gun.
  
  
• Continuity: At least one of the soldiers that Bond kills on the runway reappear when Bond and Natalya try to escape the archive
  
  
• Continuity: The dam seen in the start of the film is in a summery snow-free area. When Bond enters the station, he is at the bottom of a valley. When he emerges from the station, he is at the top of a snowy cold mountain, with no such valley in sight.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the tank/car chase in St. Petersburg, Bond plows the tank through a Perrier truck. After breaking through the truck, Perrier cans fly all over the place, but nothing comes out of any of them. Furthermore, from the sound they make as they hit the ground, they are obviously all empty. No Perrier truck would carry empty cans.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the beginning dam scene when Bond is supposedly cutting through a hatch with a "laser", the green laser light that depicts the placement of the laser is not in the same position where the cut is being created.
  
  
• Continuity: While escaping in the plane at the pre-titles sequence, we see takes of Russian base exploding without any of the soldiers or vehicles that were chasing Bond before his jump.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The little helicopter the villains use to escape from the armored train is a Robinson, which has a piston engine. The sound heard is a turbine.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In Q's room.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trevelyan is shooting at Bond on his way up to the satellite dish Trevelyan is holding his gun against his face from the front view and in front of his chest from the back view.
  
  
• Continuity: The front right light of Ourumov's car gets broken at the beginning of the tank chase, but is fixed later in the chase.
  
  
• Continuity: Onatopp's bath robe at the pool.
  
  
• Continuity: Onatopp's lipstick on Bond's upper left cheek when she is attacking him in Cuba.
  
  
• Continuity: Grass on a path that is supposedly usually submerged.
  
  
• Continuity: Previously submerged areas dry quickly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond and Simonova slide down the inside of the dish, the gradient is a lot less than in all other shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond stops sliding by putting his feet on a lip on the hole in the middle that was not there previously.
  
  
• Continuity: The two parachutes on the helicopter escape pod are white in long distance shots but red, white and blue in close-up on the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: When the man on the ship is introducing the waiting public and media to the Tiger helicopter, a large rowing boat goes behind him twice.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Xenia is killing the Canadian Admiral on the yacht, and the ID card is stolen, the uniform shown has British-Style looped multiple bar braiding for sleeve rank and pilots wings above the sleeve braid (also in the British fashion). Canadian Admirals have only a single wide gold bar on the sleeve. The different levels of Flag rank (Commodore, Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral and Admiral) are identified by insignia worn on shoulder epaulets with one to four maple leafs distinguishing the various levels. Canadian military pilots would wear their "wings" on the left breast above any medal ribbons.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the pre-title bungee-jump, camera crew and equipment (including a van) are briefly visible atop the dam, in a distant sideview shot of the jump.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The terrain around Arkangelsk where the pre-title sequence took place is flat. Certainly not enough altitude to a allow a small plane at the foot of a dam to fly vertically down for almost a minute.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is looking through his camera at the boat, he is looking with his left eye, but when we see him again, the camera is on his right eye.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bond jumps from the dam in Arkangelsk, a shot follows him down during the fall, then another shot begins from the top of the dam and follows him down again. In that shot a white European model box truck and a yellow machine (a sort of crane) is visible - you can see these in the "making of the Golden Eye" as used for the stunt. Clearly they are not meant to be there by script, as it is a place deep in Russia that doesn't have western European vehicles, and moreover the facility seems to be locked before his jump (Bond has to unlock the gate to enter). The shot of the dam right before the jump (no more then couple of seconds) shows the entire dam empty.
  
  
• Continuity: When the train is rushing toward the tank, the number of cars attached changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is on the yacht and discovers the body of Admiral Farrell in the closet, Farrell's mouth is closed when we first see him slipping out of the closet door. In the next shot, his body is landing on the floor, and this time, his lips are drawn back and his teeth are bared in a death grimace.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the marching band sequence in the square in St Petersburg, the bell lyre players in the band are not playing, but their sound is clearly audible on the soundtrack.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Bond is chasing Ourumov in the tank, he crashes into and partly runs over one of the pursuing police cars. In the shot following the effects of the crash, the 'driver' of the police car is sitting perfectly still and is clearly a dummy.
  
  
• Continuity: During the opening title scene, when one of the soldiers is hit by a motorbike, he is thrown before the impact actually occurs.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Goldeneye blows up Severnaya, a different alarm than the one already sounding goes off. The screen shows Goldeneye nowhere near Severnaya, but in the next shot of the screen, Goldeneye is shown right on top of Severnaya, about to detonate.
  
  
• Continuity: Position of Trevelyan's legs when Bond knocks him off the antenna cradle go from mid-air above the ledge to just above the ledge when the camera flips in for the close-up shot. Bonds hands seem to move too from mid-air to less than an inch above the ledge.
  
  
• Continuity: The shot of the tank blasting through alley with balcony landing on it appears to be shown twice during chase.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Q is explaining the belt to 007, his eyes can be seen looking back and forth between Bond's face and something over Bond's shoulder to Bond's right (Q's left), possibly reading his lines from a cue card.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond and Trevelyan enter the Russian compound, two Russian soldiers follow them down the stairs. The first soldier falls off the balcony, and lands on the floor below. However, no sound is made when the soldier hits the ground. Obviously some type of crash pad was used.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is fighting the man in the striped shirt on the yacht, Bond wraps a towel around the man's neck and uses it to beetle toss him down a flight of stairs. The towel is wrapped around the man's neck, and it leaves Bond's hands as he tosses him. In the next camera shot, the man goes tumbling down the stairs and the towel has disappeared. It goes to a final camera shot, and the towel is still in Bond's hands and never left in the first place.
  
  
• Plot holes: It's amazing that on an entire vessel filled with military personnel, and with such tight security, that nobody managed to hear two loud, unsilenced gunshots going off.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Natalya types out the password KNOCKERS her typing is not synchronized with the word being spelled out on screen, as she only pressed 3 keys and then hits enter, and then the entire word is spelled out on screen.
  
  
• Continuity: Q states that the pen grenade is activated by clicking 3 times, and disarmed by clicking another 3 times. Bond clicks the pen 3 times to arm it, and Q takes it back and only clicks it once to disarm it.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Natalya walks into the computer store, and asks for computers with 500 megahertz drives. Megahertz (mHz) is a measure of processor speed, not hard drive capacity. Since Natalya's character is a high profile computer programmer/hacker, it's astonishing that her character would say something so computer illiterate.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The trajectory of Bond's watch laser doesn't match up with his wrist movement.
  
  
• Continuity: When Xenia and Ourimov land the helicopter in Severnaya, they are wearing different uniforms than when they took off. (It is unclear whether or not they made an additional stop before landing in Severnaya.)
  
  
• Factual errors: The EMP blast would have caused electrical malfunction in the 3 jets, but would not have caused them to instantly explode in mid air.
  
  
• Continuity: During the tank chase, when the statue falls down and smashes the two cars, the wings break the windshield of the car on the right. In the next shot, the glass is restored.
  
  
• Continuity: During the tank chase, Bond is being pursued by two jeeps. The first jeep is an open-top. Bond turns the corner by the water, and the first jeep crashes into the railing. Just before hitting the railing, the jeep instantly becomes a closed-top jeep, and the soldiers inside are standing and go flying into the water.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ourimov, Natalya, Xenia, and Trevelyan are on the train, the walls do not shake and rattle, as you would expect of a train in motion.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): There really is no point in the train conductor blowing the warning whistle, when his intention is to ram Bond and kill him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Bond and Natalya are flying a plane over the dish, and they get shot with a missile from under the water. The plane that the missile hits is an empty plane with no passengers inside. Also, it appears to not even be in motion.
  
  
• Continuity: When the antennae of the dish is raised out of the water, it is dripping wet in one shot, and bone dry in the next. (The second shot is apparently reversed footage, where they sank the antennae into the water and reversed it to make it appear to be rising out of the water.)
  
  
• Continuity: Near the start of the film, Bond is watching Onatopp and the Admiral returning to their yacht in the harbor at Monaco. Their speed boat is approaching the yacht. James then turns to his car and the boat and it's wake have disappeared.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond and Natalya are flying the plane in Cuba, Natalya says "Turn 10 degrees south, bearing 184." 184 what? This information is useless to Bond.
  
  
• Continuity: During the train scene after Bond shoots Ourumov, Bond checks the armor plating then hangs on the ceiling facing away from Natalya. In the next shot of Bond he is facing toward Natalya.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bond shoots the cannon in the tank at the train we see him hop out of the tank. A second later you see him hop off the tracks and we see the train go by. As the train passes the camera follows it and you can see Bond is a long way away from the tank - probably 1,000 meters. He would have had no time to make it that far in three seconds.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Jack Wade gets out of his plane to rendezvous with Bond, he looks to his left and says, "Banyan trees." There are no banyan trees in the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is running down the ramp to the room in the satellite and Alec is shooting at him, the stunt double flips and in the first shot his leg clips the edge of the railing, but in the second shot he rolls cleanly through the catwalk with both legs between the rail.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Natalya is seen at St Petersburg train station, the train she gets off is clearly made up of old British Rail mark 1 rolling stock painted dark green to look Russian. Thus hinting that the scene was shot at a large British terminus.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The satellites are said to be orbiting 100 km above the earth, but that is far too low. The minimum altitude necessary to place something in a stable orbit is 640 km. Any object lower than that soon falls back to earth due to atmospheric drag.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Wires pulling the cockpit upwards are visible, when Bond ejects it from the helicopter just moments before it explodes.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: You can clearly see a roller under Bond as he slides down the satellite dish with Natalya.
  
  
• Factual errors: Assuming Bond weighs somewhere between 150 and 250 lbs, there is no possible way he would fall at a faster rate than an airplane in free-fall. After skydiving into the falling plane, Bond climbs into the pilot's seat and sits down as if in normal gravity. As both he and the plane are in free-fall, he would be effectively weightless.
  
  
• Plot holes: In the Russian prison, Ourimov fires a weapon without a silencer, killing the minister and one of the guards. Several moments pass, and he then yells for the guards to come in. Apparently, the guards would come running in at Ourimov's request, but not to investigate the sound of two gunshots going off.
  
  
• Continuity: To get to the Russian compound, Bond has to dive to the bottom of a dam that is literally hundreds of feet tall. When Bond is flying away from the compound, it goes to a wide camera shot and the dam is nowhere in sight.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Russians must identify themselves to the base security system, in English, in order to gain access. Russian computer prompts are in English as well. In all probability, these security systems would be designed in Russian, not English.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Obvious lip-sync by the female singer during Bond's meeting with Zukovsky. The tape continues to play for a second even after she stops singing and leaves the stage.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Bond screeches the tires of the army tank. Although a cool scene, this is impossible, because of the manner in which army tanks move.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trevelyan just wakes up from being unconscious, he could not possibly know that Ourimov is holding Natalya at gunpoint in the next room.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Just before Bond steals the tank to chase the General, he falls against another tank in order to hide behind it. You can see the "armor plating" of the tank shaking/billowing from the force of him hitting the tank.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond is in M's office, she gets him a drink and asks if he wants ice. He answers yes. You hear ice in the glass. During a closeup of his face drinking from the glass, you see there is no ice in the glass. When he sets the glass down, there is still no ice in it, but the Foley ice sound is present.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: Position of Xenia's head after dying in tree in Cuba.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: When Boris Grishenko is frozen instantaneously by liquid hydrogen, it is unrealistic. Liquid hydrogen creates a thin layer between of oxygen itself and the object, slowly freezing over several minutes, while moisture and oxygen are evaporated, hence he would be alerted and have time to get away.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: Ourimov "shoots" Trevelyan. However, this gun evidently shoots blank bullets, as it is revealed later on that Trevelyan was not injured, and is working with Ourimov. He uses the same gun to kill a Russian soldier moments later. It becomes unclear whether Trevelyan is working with Ourimov alone, or all the Russians are in on it. This makes no sense in either case. Either all the Russians are in on it and this entire scene is constructed to dupe Bond(which makes no sense because Trevelyan killed a couple Russians on the way in) or Trevelyan and Ourimov are working together without the Russians knowing, in which case they should have noticed Trevelyan was not dead, and Ourimov effectively killed a Russian soldier with a gun that shoots blanks.
  
  

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