Goofs for
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: In one shot, George is right in front of his laptop talking to his girlfriend. When the shot goes to the control station the TV is broadcasting the video and George is not in the view of the computer at all.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Many times during the picture, the horns from Amtrak trains are heard - horns which could never be heard on a subway system.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Lt. Staley shows Garber how to use a gun, he shows him the opposite of how the safety actually works (down is safe, up is fire).
  
  

• Errors in geography: When the police pick up the money from the Federal Reserve, they are actually at the Federal Building/Post Office on Church Street, near the Trade Center.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Garber and Carmonetti leave the Transit HQ they drive downtown to the helipad. They then take a long helicopter ride only to wind up exactly where the left from.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Ryder and his men make their escape in the Subway they travel downtown. When they stop in lower Manhattan, when they exit the Subway to the street they are now on Park Avenue in the 40's uptown and to the east from where they stopped.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ryder is first recognized by folks at master control on the internet feed, he is in a short sleeve shirt. Then, on the next view of the same shot, he is wearing a jacket.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The exterior of the control room is the new South Ferry Terminal, not Grand Central Terminal as stated.
  
  
• Continuity: Look closely at Ryder's watch when communicating to Walter over the radio. It's clear that he is wearing a Breitling Chrono Avenger M1 SQ w/ BALCK dial timepiece model. However, when Ryder looks at his watch for the time. The camera zooms in at a different Breitling a Chrono Colt SQ w/ a WHITE DIAL..
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the train is going really fast, you see a quick shot of Shea Stadium (blue facade showing a gate). Shea Stadium was located in Queens (it was demolished before the film's release), and the 6 line does not enter Queens at any point along the line.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The hijacked subway car is operated several times by a person sitting on the left hand side of the operating cab. All NYC subway cars are operated from the right side.
  
  
• Continuity: When Garber is shown the gun to be hidden in one of the money bags, it is a Walther PPK .380. Later, when he obtains the gun from the bag, it is a Kahr K9 9mm.
  
  
• Continuity: When the money car is struck and rolls over, the light bar is knocked off the roof. When the car is shown flipping through the air and when it falls to the street, the bar is back on.
  
  
• Factual errors: R-142 and R-142A subway cars are permanently linked into 5-car sets and cannot operate as single units.
  
  
• Factual errors: On the exterior of the train, the car number was 8837. But in the motorman's cab, the car number was 7426. For the R142A Subway car, the numbers would be in the 7400 number range. 8837 would be in the 8800 number range for the R160B Subway cars
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the subway cars are stopped at the beginning they are supposedly just north of 42nd st. Then they split the train and back up the other cars. Then the passengers walk to the Grand Central to exit. They would have to be at 51st st station.
  
  
• Continuity: When they send out the cops with the money, they buzz down the street that's been rained on and a man is still wearing a raincoat. In no other shot in the movie has it rained.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The watch John Travolta's character uses in the movie during scenes in the train is an Breitling SuperAvenger. Then when the camera does a close up on the watch it is a white faced Breitling Colt.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There are many differences between the real New York City subway system and the system featured in this movie. For example, there is no "Coney Island" station on the real system, but there is one in this movie; additionally, the use of certain station's platforms standing in for other station's platforms. Because of this, these can not be considered as "goofs", and as such are likely to be deliberate creative or logistical decisions by the film makers.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Garber's wife is calling him on his cell phone, we can see the caller-ID on its screen that says "Home". We can clearly see the word "zoom" under the caller-ID, showing us that it's a picture preview and not an actual income call.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Ryder is talking to Garber over the radio in the operating cab, but in several scenes, he's in the middle of the car but still talking to Garber through the walkie-talkie.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the conductor is watching the passengers get on and off, she is in the 5th car. All conductors are always in the 6th car.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the first scene, when we see Garber talking through the microphone the very first time, he presses the red button. From that time on, we see the characters pressing the blue one to use the microphone.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie, Garber chooses to go home by riding the subway. He is then seen staring out of the window, which is very wet from rain. However, before and after he gets on the subway, it's a bright and sunny day and everything is clearly dry.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Walter is chasing Ryder through New York in the taxi cab, the truck makes the sounds of a V8 gasoline vehicle. The truck that he commandeers is a Ford Super Duty with a diesel Powerstroke engine.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the hostage situation, the kidnappers have net connection to buy stocks and watch the news about the incident. The girlfriend of George shares the the web camera feed online, so that the news stations can show them. But the kidnappers never see the feed on the channels they are watching. However, whichever station the girlfriend contacted may be keeping the feed as an exclusive, and the hijackers may not have watched that one channel out of the numerous options available.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: The laptop is first used to broadcast, but that ends due to the battery running empty. Later, the laptop is used again by George to declare his love to his girlfriend, with an empty battery.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the shoot-out between Emri and Bashkim and the police, Bashkim keeps firing his pistol although its clip is empty and the slide is locked.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Ryder (John Travolta) first talks to Walter (Denzil Washington) after taking over the train, he says there are 19 hostages. He then kills the motorman. A little later, before killing any other hostages, Ryder is talking to Walter again, and tells him he can save 17 hostages. There should still be 18 hostages left.
  
  

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