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• Continuity: In the Moscow car chase, Bourne's car is hit from the driver's side by a police car. The driver's side window breaks. In the next few shots, you do not see any broken glass on Bourne. In the very next shot the car is not damaged on the driver's side.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase seen in the Moscow tunnel between the yellow taxi and the Mercedes SUV, the Mercedes is shown to have a dangling front license plate. In subsequent shots, the license plate is firmly attached and not dangling.
  
  
• Continuity: In the car chase in Moscow, the taxi gets hit by the Mercedes SUV sideways. Yet, when seen from inside the taxi, the Mercedes clearly misses the taxi.
  
  

• Continuity: In the car chase in Moscow, the taxi gets hit by the Mercedes SUV sideways, it spins out, loses its rear bumper and its trunk opens. Yet in the following shots the bumper is intact and trunk is closed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bourne drops the cell phone beside Nevins (after knocking him out and cloning his GSM SIM) it is left facing down. When Nevins regains consciousness, the phone is right side up.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of Russian militia sequence in front of the airport we hear radio transmission in Russian. Translation: "This is number 17, I am sorry I could not get there, I got stuck in a traffic jam." Ten minutes later during the cab chase the exact same message is aired again, unrelated to the chase.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jason slams Ward's head on the desk, Ward's glasses are either right in front of him or his head is on them. In the next scene of his head on the desk, his glasses are nowhere to be seen.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the scene supposedly situated in Amsterdam, the cars in the background don't have Dutch (yellow with black letters) license plates, but Belgian (white with red letters) license plates
  
  
• Continuity: After Jason jumps onto the boat from the bridge, he grabs his left leg and walks away limping on the left leg. But throughout the remainder of the movie, he limps on his right leg.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Jason steals the car with the tool that he pushes in the ignition he gets out of the vehicle. When he returns to the car he starts the vehicle. The distinct sound of keys rattling can be heard. So obviously he mysteriously got keys to the vehicle he had stolen. This is because an alternative scene was shot where he approaches the owner of the car and buys it on the spot.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Jason is being traced in Naples, we are shown an airborne shot of Canary Wharf in London. Although the film is set in present time, there are two buildings shown under construction by Canary Wharf. Those buildings have been finished for over 5 years now.
  
  
• Continuity: In the fight in the German apartment with Jason's former teammate, Jason clearly has a swollen and cut lip. In the restroom where he washes blood off his hands and looks in the mirror, his face shows no signs of the wounds from the fight.
  
  
• Continuity: The last car hit in the tunnel chase scene is a black VW Polo. The following shot, from behind, is actually an earlier scene. The car we see hitting the wall is not the Polo but the first one hit in the tunnel, and Bourne's taxi is not next to the Mercedes but behind it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the camera shows Alexanderplatz square in Berlin from a bird's perspective, a yellow tram enters from the left in the wrong direction with its back first and the electric pantograph on the rear end. Either they had a rehearsal with the tram going back and forth, or the cutter placed this shot running backward.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Bourne visits his ex-colleague in Munich, the bird singing in the background is an American thrush, probably a Wood Thrush.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the opening minutes of the film, Bourne has his nightmare in Goa and goes to the bathroom. We hear the fluorescent lamp ballast (choke) buzzing at 60Hz, however if Bourne is in Goa, India like the film says then it should be buzzing at 50Hz.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bourne is washing his hands, there are two metal hand dryers in the scene. Faintly reflected onto these on two occasions is a person wearing something blue. It cannot be Bourne as he is wearing black.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the car chase, when one of the Russian police cars crashes and gets spun around, the driver of the car clearly has a full racing helmet on
  
  
• Errors in geography: Some of the Moscow scenes have obviously been shot in Berlin. There are German road signs and advertisements in the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kirill shoots Bourne by the river in Moscow you can clearly see the powder flash and smoke from the explosive charge planted under Bourne's coat to simulate a bullet strike.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase, when Bourne's taxi enters the main stream of traffic and spins you can clearly see the exhaust pipe broken and hanging down. As the car races away it sounds normal and a couple of scenes later it has magically repaired itself.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the car-chase through the Moscow tunnel, many cars are crashed and spun out. But there is a continuous stream of fresh traffic behind Bourne. After the first crash (or two), all traffic behind Bourne's car and the Mercedes would have stopped.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bourne and Marie switch seats when being chased by Kirill in Goa, Bourne lowers the backrest of the seat and they switch. In shots immediately after, the backrest is shown in the upright position.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bourne is burning Marie's photographs and the passports after her death, he is shown taking out what looks like 2 more passports and another photograph of him and her out of his back pocket. In the subsequent shots, he is shown only holding the photograph. This is evident when he folds it up.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase at the end of the movie the location of the chase switches between the road (Naberezhnaya Tarasa Shevcenko) next to the Hotel Ukraine which is opposite the parliament building to a different road (Sofijskaya Naberezhnaya) which is across the river opposite to the Kremlin and then switches back again to the Hotel Ukraine location.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see Nicky walking down the stairs in Amsterdam, you see a newspaper shelf in the background with the name L'echo. L'echo a Walloonian news agency and not a Dutch one.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kiril hijacks the SUV, the passenger side door is clearly closed. In the next shot, it is slightly open as he drives away, but is closed again in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Landy calls Nevins in Naples after Bourne has escaped, she says "I want you to secure that area." But when Bourne plays back the conversation on his tape recorder, Landy is saying "I want that area secured."
  
  
• Continuity: When Jason is on the rooftop observing Pamela and staff through his rifle scope, Jason's view of the personnel inside is clear and totally unobstructed. However, camera shots inside the building show sheer white curtains across all the windows.
  
  
• Factual errors: In Moscow people live in apartments, not in entire houses. So, when asking for the address of the girl from the street cleaner, Bourne should have got not only her street and house number, but the apartment number as well. The huge condominium seen in the last shots of Bourne's stay in Moscow contains several hundred apartments. Besides, it is highly improbable that the street cleaner will know the new address of a person who lived there.
  
  
• Factual errors: When speaking in Russian, both Kirill and Bourne make some language mistakes. Kirill, after the operation in Berlin, says "I'll take a shower" like that: "Ya voz'mu dush", whereas the correct expression is "Ya primu dush". In Moscow shop, Bourne shouts "Vniz!" meaning "Down!", and correct expression for that is "Na pol!", or "On the floor!" And when Bourne tells Irina Neski that he won't hurt her he adds "Ponial?" or "understand?" when he should have used the feminine form "poniala?"
  
  
• Factual errors: When the Berlin SEK unit assaults the hotel Bourne just checked in to, some of the police officers carry Heckler & Kock G36A1 assault rifles. None of the German SEK units uses this type of weapon. It wouldn't make sense either, because it's too bulky for close quarters battle.
  
  
• Factual errors: All German police car sirens in the entire movie sound wrong.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where Bourne is researching the murder, Hotel Brecker's address is listed as Kurtürstendamm 288. The actual name is Kurfürstendamm - one of Berlin's most famous avenues.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Jason enters the train to Moscow at Berlin Ostbahnhof, there is an announcement for a train heard on the platform: "... nach Hamburg. Über Hannover, Bielefeld, Dortmund." (... to Hamburg via Hannover, Bielefeld, Dortmund). There are no direct trains from Berlin to Hamburg going through these towns. In fact, there are not even on the way. Going from Berlin straight westward to Cologne you would get through these cities, Hamburg is farther north and there is a direct connection without any stops (takes 1,5 hours).
  
  
• Continuity: When Pamela Landy arrives in Berlin they get into two black vehicles. The next shot shows these vehicles driving down the road and it is clearly visible that the first vehicles number plate is 'BAS7227' and the second vehicles number plate is 'BWB942'. However when the shot changes you are able to see the vehicles from the back and now the first vehicle with the number plate 'BAS7227' is second in the convoy and the vehicle with the number plate 'BWB942' is now first.
  
  
• Factual errors: In India, Bourne buys a bottle of water from a street vendor. The bottle is Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, stocked only by upper-class areas of India such as 5-star hotels, embassies and expensive restaurants, not by small street vendors.
  
  
• Errors in geography: One scene that is supposed to take place in Russia shows a building with a big Tatra logo on the top. Tatra is an automobile manufacturer in Czech Republic and they have no branches in Russia.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Some scenes in Zurich have 1980's trams on the street. These trams never ran in Zurich, they don't even run in the Eastern Block anymore.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bourne travels to Moscow he arrives on Kievsky railway station (as in Kiev, Ukraine), when in fact all trains from Berlin arrive to Belorussky station (as in Minsk, Belarus).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bourne calls Berlin hotels to find out in which one the female CIA executive is staying, he mispronounces "sprechen". This happens several times. A CIA covert agent trained for work in Europe would not mispronounce such a common word.
  
  
• Continuity: When Neski's daughter in the Moscow suburb comes back home, she walks up the stairs to the first floor. Later, when Bourne and her are chatting, through the window it can clearly be seen that the apartment they are in is higher than the 1st floor.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Bourne tells Nicky to enter the tram it is directed towards "Alexanderplatz". The luminous display inside the tram however reveals "S+U Lichtenberg/DB" as destination - a completely different quarter of Berlin that is not connected to Alexanderplatz via tram.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Bourne 'signs in' at the bank with his palm print, he removes his hand from the palm reader, but as we cut back to him his hand is still on the reader.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bourne is escaping the bank, he drops down from a steel balcony on the side of the building. The balcony only has a very slight dusting of snow initially, but when the police arrive it is completely covered.
  
  
• Continuity: At Pam's hotel, Jason asks the clerk to call Pam's room. The next shot shows her finger hitting the "2", then another "2", and cuts just as her finger was coming down on the "5". However, on the LCD display, it shows "235".
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bourne discovers and writes down Landy's phone number it has the area code 757. "Langley" (CIA Headquarters) is in Mclean, Va whose area code is 703. Area code 757 is in southeast Virginia, home to Langley Air Force Base.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bourne is in hotel Becker in Berlin walking around the hallways and in some rooms, daylight is visible in some shots from the background windows behind the curtains. That scene however was supposedly taking place at night.
  
  
• Errors in geography: There is a scene where Abbott and Landy are in a meeting with their bosses in Langley, where Landy says she is getting on a plane to Berlin in 45 minutes. One of the next scenes shows Abbott in Amsterdam picking up Nicky Parsons and taking her away. We then cut to Landy and Abbott about to board the aforementioned plane (presumably in Langley still), while questioning Nicky. It cannot be possible for Abbott to go from Langley to Amsterdam and back in under 45 minutes.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The clerk at the reception of "Hotel Brecker" addresses Bourne in English at once, although he can't know that he is American.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After Bourne left Hotel Brecker he enters the station "Zoologischer Garten", which actually is the next to the supposed address of the hotel. After passing through the hall he leaves the building and we see a bridge over a river. "Zoologischer Garten" isn't near a river, the rest of the scene is shot at the station "Friedrichstrasse", 4 train stops away.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The banners carried by the protesters contain several spelling errors, including "Meer" (ocean) instead of "Mehr" (more).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bourne calls several hotels asking to speak to Pamela Landy, the greetings and responses from the supposed native Germans are grammatically incorrect. Germans pride themselves on proper grammar, and professionals in a service industry (hotels) particularly so. The first asks "Kann ich Ihnen helfen?" (Am I able to help you?) instead of "Darf ich Ihnen helfen?" (May I help you?). Bourne, who should know better being trained for deep-cover in Europe, says "Kann ich mit dem Gast Pamela Landy sprechen?" (Am I able to speak with the male guest Pamela Landy?) instead of "Darf ich mit der Gastin Pamela Landy sprechen?" (May I speak with the female guest Pamela Landy?). The reply is "Eine Moment." (One -wrong form- moment.) instead of "Moment." (A moment.). The greeting for the 3rd call is "Was darf ich fuer Sie tun?" (What may I do for you?) which isn't the way Germans phrase that question. It would always be "Darf ich Ihnen helfen?" (May I help you?) or "Wie darf ich Ihnen helfen?" (How may I help you?).
  
  

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