Tomorrow Never Dies: Film – Goofups- Continuity: When in the plane, Bond’s oxygen mask is clearly seen clipped to his helmet in frontal camera shots, but is missing on side profile camera shots.
- Continuity: The scene where the tire re-inflates itself shows a wheel of the “classic” series for the BMW 7, yet the car was equipped with “sports” wheels.
- Crew or equipment visible: “Back-seat driver” in Bond’s car can be seen under black cloth when Bond test drives his car.
- Factual error: Helicopters are physically incapable of hovering in place with their rotors tilted forward, as indicated during the motorcycle chase.
- Continuity: Wade is walking toward the camera with his hat in his right hand. The next shot shows him walking away from the camera with his hat in his left hand.
- Continuity: The rear window of Bond’s car repairs itself soon after the missile passes through the hole in it.
- Continuity: Wai Lin’s outfit becomes less revealing as she and Bond fall down the side of the skyscraper.
- Continuity: Wai Lin is suddenly dry as she steps away to get on her motorcycle.
- Continuity: The handcuff can be seen not closed around the water pipe.
- Continuity: Amount of vodka in Bond’s bottle during the hotel scene.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: The film is set in the present day, yet Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is referred to in the film as Saigon. While it has not officially been called Saigon since the end of the Vietnam War in April 1975, that name is still used by the locals.
- Continuity: The BMW that drives off the roof of the parking deck and crashes into the Avis dealer has a tinted moonroof, instead of the metal panel sunroof (with rocket launchers) seen on all previous shots of the car.
- Continuity: When Bond parks his car in the garage, the tires are turned slightly to the right. Later, when Carver’s people try to break it open, the tires are in straight position
- Geographical error: When the HMS Devonshire gives its position as 114 23 818 E, 37 74 624 N, that longitude and latitude is actually 300 miles inland.
- Factual error: The fleet as seen is missing the Royal Navy’s most powerful units, the aircraft carriers, of which at least one would almost certainly have been sent along with any naval buildup. Further, none of the ships present choose to deploy their helicopters for recon or assault on the stealth ship.
- Continuity: When Wai Lin and Bond are captured and brought to Carver, Carver types their obituary on a giant screen. However, he is only randomly hitting keys on his keyboard. The characters on the screen do not appear as quickly as he types, but that could be attributed to slow hardware (odd, however, for someone so powerful).
- Continuity: When Bond parachutes into the ocean, in the air the tanks are quite spread apart, almost behind each shoulder, but as soon as he gets underwater, the tanks are right next to each other.
- Continuity: When Bond parachutes into the ocean, his swimming flipper is knocked off his foot and floats away, yet in the next shot he is seen swimming away with the flipper in place.
- Continuity: Gupta tape-records Paris and Bond talking. Later on, he plays back a completely different recording of the same event.
- Revealing mistake: When Bond and Wai Lin are being chased by the helicopter, Wai Lin’s fake left arm is much too long.
- Continuity: When Bond and Wai Lin are being taken to Carver’s building by helicopter, we get a shot of the building itself. It has a sloped roof, and a large pole on top, making it impossible for a helicopter to land on that roof.
- Revealing mistake: When Bond jumps from the banker’s window in Bilbao and lands in the street. Fans of the film are visible behind him standing behind security barriers and some are taking pictures.
- Continuity: Wai Lin is tied to a chain and dropped into the water below Carver’s stealth ship. The chain is shown to be attached to a rafter of the ship. When the boat is blown to smithereens, the chain remains taut as Bond works to free Wai Lin underwater.
- Continuity: When Bond is talking to M and Moneypenny in the limo, the blue partition window can be seen being raised during an exterior shot but is then back down in the next shot.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When the jump officer is prepping Bond for the H.A.L.O. jump, and we see him from behind, his mouth doesn’t match what he is saying.
- Geographical error: The street scenes of Vietnam use Chinese and Thai characters, not the Latin-based Vietnamese characters. The Saigon scenes were actually filmed in Bangkok.
- Continuity: When the Chinese agent runs away, having handcuffed Bond to the shower, her hair is completely dry, despite sharing the shower with Bond only a few seconds before.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond and Wai Lin are captured by Carver, Carver says, “I’ll leave you to Stamper and his toys.” The words “and his toys” were dubbed in, and Carver’s mouth never moves along with them.
- Continuity: During the motorcycle chase, the Range Rovers become dusty and dirty while hitting bags on the side of the road. In a subsequent shot when they stop at right angles, they are absolutely clean.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: On the stealth boat, Bond is using a silenced Walther P99 yet the sound of it is as if it is unsilenced.
- Plot hole: There’s no reason why a hotel’s parking garage door should be armored and be able to withstand missiles. (It’s a holdover from an earlier version of the script, where the car battle took place in the villain’s headquarters.)
- Factual error: At the end of the film when HMS Bedford is searching for Bond and Wai Lin, a voice is heard over a loudspeaker calling “This is the HMS Bedford…”. A Royal Navy ship would be referred to as “HMS Bedford” or “the Bedford” or “Bedford”, but never “the HMS Bedford”.
- Continuity: When using his phone as fingerprint scanner it is a Samsung model, but when using it opened up to control the car the Ericsson logo is visible.
- Continuity: When Bond is searching Carver’s lab for the GPS encoder, he is standing at a table with his hands by his sides. In the very next shot, a close-up on his face, he has his thumb on his chin as if in thought for a moment.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Carver is talking about launching his missile into Beijing, and his motive, he says, “Oh, nothing – just exclusive broadcasting rights in China for the next hundred years.” When he says “hundred years” his mouth doesn’t match his speech (obviously dubbed)
- Geographical error: When Bond and Wai Lin arrive in Saigon by helicopter, a Thai flag is even visible flying from a building.
- Factual error: Turboprop engines can’t operate above 30,000 feet as shown in the HALO jump scene.
- Continuity: Just before the assailants shoot holes through the windshield of the BMW in the garage, the car is making a turn, but the steering wheel does not move at all.
- Factual error: It would be physically impossible for the torpedo drill, launched in the first scene, to maintain sufficient forward momentum to overcome the lateral movement of the drill that would be caused by the friction of the cutting discs on the hull of the ship.
- Factual error: In the halo jump scene, Bond has to wear an oxygen mask when jumping to avoid passing out due to the high altitude’s lack of oxygen – yet Bond and the entire plane crew are standing around with the rear cargo door open before the jump with no oxygen masks.
- Continuity: In the opening sequence, after firing the missile, the ship reports back that they have lost contact with the missile because it is out of range and thus it cannot be destroyed. Moments later, back at HQ, M & Co are seen watching the missile’s on-board camera as it flies through the mountains towards its target. If the missile can relay images back to base, they could relay a message to the missile it to self-destruct!
- Continuity: The admiral warns M that she has 48 hours to investigate before the British fleet attacks, but the events of the film take far longer than 48 hours. There’s no way that an overnight party in Hamburg, a morning raid on Carver’s headquarters, at least twelve hours of travel time to Vietnam to investigate the Devonshire, not even counting his rendezvous with Wade, an escape from Carver’s Saigon base, and the investigation of the Chinese bays, could all take place in just 48 hours.
- Continuity: When Bond tries to escape from the parking garage, you can see that the people in the car constantly cycle between no driver (presumably driven by remote control), one driver, and a driver and a passenger.
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