World Is Not Enough, The: Film – Goofups- Continuity: When Bond attacks the Cigar Girl’s boat he fires the upper torpedo on her. In the next shot he fires the same torpedo again.
- Continuity: When Bond and Renard are having a firefight in the missile silo, Bond wounds Renard’s left arm with his sub-machine gun. Later on in that scene Renard is uninjured.
- Factual error: In the opening scene in Bilbao, Spain, after the shots, police sirens are heard, and several cars of the Spanish national police are seen through the window, at several different times. When the police enter the office, however, the uniform worn by the agents is not the one from the Spanish national police, but from the Basque police force, which would not have jurisdiction over this type of event.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: Bond’s BMW is destroyed at the end; the car seen at the end (when he’s on vacation) is actually his original Aston Martin DB5.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: When Bond drives his speedboat through the market during the boat chase scene, a view from the driver’s perspective shows food and debris striking what is apparently a windshield. While his boat has no windshield, the police car following (whose perspective we see) does.
- Revealing mistake: In Bond’s barrel roll in the film’s beginning chase sequence, the stunt driver’s helmet is seen.
- Continuity: In one shot during the caviar building action sequence, Bond opens a hatch and climbs out onto the dock, with an empty gun (the slide on his pistol is locked back), and yet he fires it above him, shooting out the feet of the man above him.
- Revealing mistake: During the battle at the caviar factory, as James Bond tumbles down the stairs, you get a good shot of a stunt double’s face.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the boat chase, after the boat hits the passanger jetty a camera on a boom can be seen on a boat as the boat speeds away. (DVD Widescreen Version)
- Continuity: The helicopter supposedly cannot land because of severe wind. When James and Electra disembark on their skis, the only wind action seen is that caused by the helicopter’s own rotor, and the pilot manages to keep the helicopter still while hovering.
- Continuity: After M asks Elektra, “What’s the time?”, Elektra’s body guard Gabor is seen to close the door to M’s cell at Maiden’s Tower. However, about a minute later, Gabor is all the way across the harbor in Istanbul where he and Elektra’s henchmen take Bond and Dr Jones captive.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: In the casino scene, Bond remarks “Nothing comes free from you, Zukovsky.” However, Bond’s lips do not mouth the word “Zukovsky,” but something else.
- Geographical error: During the opening boat chase, the route actually taken through London’s Isle of Dogs does not match the route displayed on Bond’s on-board computer map. Specifically: The map shows the route through West India Docks, but the chase is obviously through Millwall Inner and Outer Docks. Further, the boats come out of what is, in reality, a dead end.
- Factual error: Near the beginning of the film, it is said the bullet traveling through Renard’s brain is in his medulla oblongata, thus killing his senses. This area of the brain controls basic functions such as breathing and heart rate, not the sensory perceptions.
- Plot hole: In the final scenes on board the Soviet submarine, Bond hits and kicks Renard, making him gasp in pain. If the bullet were killing his senses like the good doctor said, he would scarcely have flinched.
- Factual error: During the briefing, it is stated that Renard does not feel any pain as a result of his injuries, and that the doctor was unable to remove the bullet from his brain, which is still moving through his head. Bullets can only spin so slowly before human flesh stops them altogether, and a bullet left in the brain would cause lead poisoning or an infection, not to mention the autoimmune problems that would result, all of which would kill Renard much more quickly.
- Factual error: It is extremely difficult to move a limb that is devoid of feeling, and a man who has no sensation anywhere in his body would need to learn how to move all over again; he would likely move very stiffly and awkwardly, and we don’t see that.
- Continuity: In the pre-credits boat chase, just before Cigar Girl’s Sunseeker crashes outside the Millennium Dome, the first-person view from the boat reveals that the broken railings on the wall which are seemingly caused by the boat’s nose, are in fact broken prior to impact.
- Continuity: When Bond is tied to the torture chair, the left side of his shirt collar is caught in the throat shackle. It’s soon in the normal position after.
- Continuity: At the end of the boat chase, when the Cigar Girl blows up the balloon, you see Bond rolling down the building; all his hair is wild and uncombed. When he grabs the wire and stops, his hair is nicely combed down and a few hairs in front are a little wild.
- Continuity: At the start of the film, when Cigar Girl is shooting at bond, she is facing backwards during the close-up shots, but facing forwards during the wide shots.
- Continuity: At the end of the boat chase, when Cigar Girl’s Sunseeker boat hits the shore below the Dome, it is clearly low tide. The boat beaches quite a way short of the river wall. Seconds later when Bond’s boat jumps over the Sunseeker, it is clearly high tide and the Sunseeker’s bow is now touching the river wall.
- Revealing mistake: The trees around the exploded pipeline have been cut cleanly rather than broken.
- Incorrectly regarded as a goofup: Lacking appropriate safety systems, a rod of weapons grade plutonium probably would cause a meltdown in a reactor. While it wouldn’t technically be an explosion, it would be a massive release of energy, so that’s a fair enough word, especially when used by the non-expert, Bond.
- Continuity: Electra King reveals her destroyed ear by removing the earring that was covering it. In the next shot the earring is back on her ear, though she did not put it back on.
- Continuity: During the caviar factory battle, Bond hides behind a table, holding his P99 pistol as he yells, “Get out!” to Valentin and Christmas. After a cutaway, Bond is holding a machine gun, then after another, he fires the original pistol.
- Geographical error: The Russian Atomic Energy Commission plane has a French registration number.
- Factual error: The acronym for what is supposedly the Russian Atomic Energy Agency is written in Greek (Alpha Sigma Delta), not Cyrillic (Russian) characters. The real name of this agency is Minatom.
- Revealing mistake: A price tag is clearly visible inside a supposedly old and rusty lamp hanging above the table in the room where M is held prisoner.
- Factual error: Numerous scientific liberties taken regarding radioactive substances and nuclear reactors.
- Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the camera crane is visible when Bobby’s car breaks down.
- Crew or equipment visible: A remote head camera crane is visible during the opening boat chase (as the lead speedboat destroys the pier on left-hand bank, the wide shot reveals crane in the top left corner).
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: While in the caviar factory, Bond fires his P99 at the Renard goons, and the slide of the gun can be seen going back three times, but we hear only two shots.
- Continuity: When Zukovsky first falls in the caviar, it has a thick, almost tar-like consistency to it. In later shots, it’s much more watery.
- Continuity: When Bond is speaking with M in her office, he sets down his drink a fair distance from the “stolen report”. An immediate close-up shows the drink within a couple of inches of the report.
- Factual error: Plutonium is very dense (19.8 grams per cubic centimeter) and a hemisphere of the size depicted couldn’t be handled as if it were made of foam
- Continuity: The sash on M’s outfit after she is kidnapped disappears and reappears in the same sequence.
- Continuity: The engine on one of the parahawks can be heard to be having trouble even though Bond only managed to damage the parachute.
- Continuity: In the MI6 opening sequence we see a hole blown in the face of the building when the money explodes. When Bond launches the jet boat from the same face of the building the explosion hole is not present.
- Continuity: Just before the Russian submarine surfaces below the tower in Istanbul, a wide shot shows the ship it used for cover going by the tower, built on a very small island, considerably smaller than the ship. In the next shot the submarine is surfacing in a hall which is at least twice as long as the whole island.
- Revealing mistake: At the caviar factory, just as a helicopter cuts through several pipes, Bond is seen moving to and leaning against a vertical pipe. As he contacts one of the pipes it visibly wobbles.
- Continuity: In the Millennium Dome chase sequence, just before Bond jumps from Q’s fishing boat to the balloon, the canopy on the boat is present. When Bond actually makes the jump, the canopy has disappeared without explanation.
- Continuity: During the caviar factory scene, you see the helicopter hovering above Bond’s BMW. The helicopter has the blades suspended beneath it, but when Bond destroys the helicopter, the blades are no longer there.
- Continuity: During the fight in the missile silo, Bond is holding his silenced pistol in one hand and Dr Jones in the other. Together they jump into a shallow pit; when they land, Bond is holding two pistols.
- Continuity: When M is in the tower and talking with Renard, the position of the sash on her shoulder changes between shots.
- Geographical error: When displaying the gadget-coat to Bond, R uses the terms “zippers”. This is an American term, a British person would use the term “zips”.
- Revealing mistake: After the gun barrel sequence, Bond walks down a street in Bilbao and you can see an old lady hiding and looking at him as well as the fans being held back by a steel fence so that they don’t walk in the scene.
- Revealing mistake: At the very start of the film as Bond approaches the bankers office you can see several camera flashes go off in the background. These were people who arrived to watch the filming of this scene.
- Continuity: When Elektra’s main bodyguard (who wears a yellow t-shirt) captures Bond on Istanbul he used a Ruger P95 pistol. When he reaches the Maiden’s Tower and places his gun on the desk it’s now a Colt 1911.
- Continuity: In the end chase sequence the missiles are fired on after the other. When it shows them traveling underwater they are traveling side-by-side at the same speed yet they still manage to hit the boat one after the other.
- Continuity: During the game of High Card, while Elektra is being dealt her card, Zukovsky’s card is visible in his hand. During the next shot he is being dealt a card.
- Error made by character/s (possibly deliberate errors by filmmaker): Electra King claims to be of azeri descent on her maternal side. Thus she thinks she is saving her cultural heritage by rerouting the pipeline around the church. But the church as proved by the priest is Russian orthodox and that is far removed from azeri culture.
- Continuity: When Bond and Renard first come face-to-face at the silo, Bond puts his pistol on Renard’s temple. When the camera cuts on Renard’s line, “I did spare your life at the banker’s office,” the gun has changed position to Renard’s forehead.
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