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Ocean's Thirteen (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: During the scene where Danny and Rusty are speaking with Roman in his kitchen, the camera, which is filming from outside the window, zooms in and can be seen in the window's reflection.
  
  
• Continuity: The aerial shot of Las Vegas out of Danny Oceans's aircraft shows a square window frame. However he and Rusty boarded a Gulfstream Jet, which has round windows.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Basher was "directing" the truck hauling the tunnel boring machine around the turn in the road, he was motioning for it to turn right (from the driver's perspective) when the truck was really turning left.
  
  

• Factual errors: The tunnel boring machines used to make the Chunnel were huge and took months to assemble. There is no way that one could be transported on the back of a single tractor trailer and put into service in a matter of hours (days). In fact there were 11 Tunnel Boring Machines in total. Some of the machines were dismantled and removed. Some were driven steeply downwards and buried clear of the tunnel.
  
  
• Continuity: No guardrail on first shot of heliport with Rusty, next shot has guardrail added.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Rusty explains to Saul about the "Soft Opening" of The Bank Hotel/Casino, Saul replies that when The Flamingo opened, it was open for good. The Flamingo actually opened in 1946 and had to close after only 2 weeks of operation to fix construction defects and finish the hotel.
  
  
• Continuity: Whenever the principals are at the airport, Gulfstream-class private jets await them. Gulfstream passenger cabins have distinctive oversize rounded "porthole" windows. Only such planes appear on the tarmac; however when there is a momentary in-flight clip showing the passenger's aerial view of the passing landscape below, the window is a small "sardine can" window of a typical commercial airliner. Clearly this was generic stock footage of "anyplane" flying over "anycity". When the highrollers are later disembarking, the windows become classic Gulfstream portholes again.
  
  
• Continuity: In Bank's office, where Rusty is claiming to be a seismologist warning Bank of potential seismic activity, Bank's glasses appear and disappear between shots of his face and over his right shoulder.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the airport scene at the end, Linus is holding a Southwest Airlines ticket jacket (and Southwest is highlighted earlier in the film). The gates shown are McCarran "D" gates. Southwest flies only out of the "B" and "C" gates. Also, the VUP is told that he might make "stand by" - another Southwest "familiarity".
  
  
• Factual errors: By 2006 slot machines - especially those at McCarran Airport - had gone coinless, accepting only paper money and dispensing barcoded vouchers that can either be inserted into another machine or redeemed for cash, thereby rendering the Susan B. Anthony con moot.
  
  
• Continuity: Livingston Dell gets picked up by the FBI. Bank tells his guys to run Dell's prints and get info on his associates. When the image's are sent up to Bank's office, Virgil has the images altered and names changed while Bank is distracted. One of the faces altered is Livingston's, despite the fact that Bank already has his name and has seen his face.
  
  
• Continuity: When Yen is betting on the roulette wheel, when the camera shows the wheel spinning while the ball is waiting to drop, it shows a ball already stopped on the wheel.
  
  
• Plot holes: Terry Benedict's hired thief, François Toulour, begins to follow Danny Ocean's crew before Ocean goes to Benedict for help. How would Benedict know to have someone follow them before he even knew about their plan? (A deleted scene reveals that Benedict knew Danny's crew were there as soon as they arrived and hired Toulour to keep an eye on them.)
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Yen refers to bowling with the 'owner of Samsung' as his connection to being able to obtain the cell phone that Willy Bank covets. Samsung is a huge publicly traded company and does not have an owner, but he could very well have meant the CEO. Or it could have been a simple mistake on his part.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Willy Bank threatens Basher Tarr (acting as Fender Roads) that he can pick up the phone and have Shaun White and Travis Pastrana doing heel clickers and lazy boys (both are tricks done on a motorbike or dirt bike) off the back of the building. Tarr then refers to them as "long hairs riding rice rockets." While Travis Pastrana is a well known competitive motor sports athlete, Shaun White is a snowboarder and skateboarder and has never been known as a motor sports or biking competitor.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the explosion goes off to loosen the cage with the diamonds to be lifted by the helicopter, that helicopter is flying close to the top of the roof when the smoke comes out, but the smoke is not affected in any way, instead of being blown away by the fan effect of the helicopter's rotor. Obviously we are seeing a helicopter model without rotors.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rusty is talking to Banks as a scientist he wears a short sleeve shirt. It is clearly visible that his trademark tattoos from Oceans 11 and 12 are missing on his arms. However in the next shot when they are lacing the hotel room with chemicals the tattoos reappear.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In one part of the movie, from the air, it shows that The Bank Hotel and Casino is on the west side of Las Vegas Blvd and just south of the Excalibur Hotel. In another part, out front of The Bank after the "earthquake", it show The Bank right across the street from the Bellagio Hotel which would make it north of The Excalibur and on the east side of Las Vegas blvd.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Virgil Malloy is talking to Néstor before the workers go to strike, he says "Zapata dijo 'prefiero morir de pie que vivir de rodillas'" ("I prefer to die on my feet than to live on my knees"). This phrase was actually said by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, not by Emiliano Zapata.
  
  
• Factual errors: While most of the Bank hotel seems to carry a Chinese theme, at the opening night there is a Sumo Wrestling match. Sumo Wresting is Japanese in origin, not Chinese.
  
  

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