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Uniform/costume errors: The uniforms worn by the Russian soldiers in the "present-day" (1995) part of the film (after the pre-credits sequence) resemble Soviet uniforms rather than the redesigned uniforms of the modern Russian Federation Army (the Soviet Union ended in 1991 and the film is clearly set in the post-Cold War climate). They are Soviet-style olive green rather than the darker shade of green used today. Ourumov's uniform as a General still follows the Soviet design, Soviet shoulder boards, inward-facing gold leaves on the lapels (as opposed to outwards like nowadays), Soviet belt buckle and he has a Soviet cap badge (red star with hammer and sickle). His cap also lacks the Russian Federation Coat of Arms that is now worn on the crown of Russian military peaked caps. The only Russian Federation part of his uniform is the patch on his left sleeve. The other Russian soldiers also still wear Soviet cap badges, including Xenia in her leather outfit during the Severnaya scenes. The ordinary soldiers (in the scenes following Bond and Natalya's capture after escaping from the helicopter) all wear red shoulder boards with "CA" in yellow letters, these mean Sovietskaya Armiya (Soviet Army).
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When Jack Wade shows up at the end of the movie, his helicopters don't make any noise until they are actually on screen. A helicopter anywhere in their general vicinity would have been making a constant, loud noise all the while.
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In the marching band sequence in the square in St Petersburg, the bell lyre players in the band are not playing, but their sound is clearly audible on the soundtrack.
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In Q's room.
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When Jack Wade gets out of his plane to rendezvous with Bond, he looks to his left and says, "Banyan trees." There are no banyan trees in the scene.
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Bond's hair length changes as he goes through the cabin door on the boat.
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While escaping in the plane at the pre-titles sequence, we see takes of Russian base exploding without any of the soldiers or vehicles that were chasing Bond before his jump.
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The front right light of Ourumov's car gets broken at the beginning of the tank chase, but is fixed later in the chase.
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Onatopp's lipstick on Bond's upper left cheek when she is attacking him in Cuba.
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When Bond and Simonova slide down the inside of the dish, the gradient is a lot less than in all other shots.
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The two parachutes on the helicopter escape pod are white in long distance shots but red, white and blue in close-up on the ground.
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When Bond is looking through his camera at the boat, he is looking with his left eye, but when we see him again, the camera is on his right eye.
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Just before Goldeneye blows up Severnaya, a different alarm than the one already sounding goes off. The screen shows Goldeneye nowhere near Severnaya, but in the next shot of the screen, Goldeneye is shown right on top of Severnaya, about to detonate.
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When Bond is fighting the man in the striped shirt on the yacht, Bond wraps a towel around the man's neck and uses it to beetle toss him down a flight of stairs. The towel is wrapped around the man's neck, and it leaves Bond's hands as he tosses him. In the next camera shot, the man goes tumbling down the stairs and the towel has disappeared. It goes to a final camera shot, and the towel is still in Bond's hands and never left in the first place.
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During the tank chase, Bond is being pursued by two jeeps. Just before the two jeeps enter the demolished alley there's an one second shot which shows both the jeeps closed-top. In the next shot it shows one closed-top jeep and one open-top jeep enter the alley.
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After Bond shoots the cannon in the tank at the train we see him hop out of the tank. A second later you see him hop off the tracks and we see the train go by. As the train passes the camera follows it and you can see Bond is a long way away from the tank - probably 1,000 meters. He would have had no time to make it that far in three seconds.
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Q tells Bond that the pen has a 4 second fuse. When Bond activates it, Q appears to take longer than 4 seconds to deactivate it. Same thing happens when Boris plays with the pen (Count the number of times he clicks it. Remember, three clicks to arm, another three to disarm), and he even drops it and spends precious seconds fumbling for it, and ends up taking far longer than 4 seconds to click the necessary 3 times to disarm it.
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Wires pulling the cockpit upwards are visible, when Bond ejects it from the helicopter just moments before it explodes.
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In the opening bungee jump scene, the camera cuts away to a wide shot as James Bond is free falling. For about half a second you can clearly see the top of the Dam where a large white truck is parked plus another large truck housing some form of bungee jump rig.
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The terrain around Arkangelsk where the pre-title sequence took place is flat. Certainly not enough altitude to allow a small plane at the foot of a dam to fly vertically down for almost a minute.
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The Goldeneye satellite that is targeted to destroy the Severnaya complex is shown on the world map to be orbiting the Earth from east to west. Apart from those in polar orbit, satellites are launched from west to east in order to take advantage of the rotation of the Earth.
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The dam seen in the start of the film is in a summery snow-free area. When Bond enters the station, he is at the bottom of a valley. When he emerges from the station, he is at the top of a snowy cold mountain, with no such valley in sight.
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The EMP blast would not have caused electrical malfunction in the three jets as the Russians intentionally used 'EMP-proof' valves instead of electronics, and either way an EMP would not cause them to explode in mid-air.
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An electromagnetic pulse would not cause explosions or fires at the Severnaya facility. EMPs simply cause non-hardened electronic circuits to shut down.
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At the demonstration of the Tiger helicopter, the French Navy Captain introduces one of the helicopter pilots as "Lieutenant Commander Bernard Jaubert". This rank does not exist in the French Navy, the equivalent rank is Captaine de corvette. Also the name patch on his flight suit says CAPT. JAUBERT but the 3 stripes above it and on his shoulders denote the lower rank of Lieutenant de vaisseau. Also the other pilot is introduced as a Lieutenant and his name patch says LT. BROUSE but his 2 stripes indicate that he's an Ensign 1st Class, or Enseigne de vaisseau de première classe.
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When Xenia and Ourumov land the helicopter in Severnaya, they are wearing different uniforms than when they took off. However, they had to make another stop along the way, for refueling.
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It's amazing that on an entire vessel filled with military personnel, and with such tight security, that nobody managed to hear two loud, unsilenced gunshots going off.
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Bond leans against a stone wall in the weapons factory, and it flexes.
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When Q is explaining the belt to 007, his eyes can be seen looking back and forth between Bond's face and something over Bond's shoulder to Bond's right (Q's left), possibly reading his lines from a cue card.
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The trajectory of Bond's watch laser doesn't match up with his wrist movement.
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Just before Bond steals the tank to chase the General, he falls against another tank in order to hide behind it. You can see the "armor plating" of the tank shaking/billowing from the force of him hitting the tank.
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When Natalya types out the password KNOCKERS her typing is not synchronized with the word being spelled out on screen, as she only pressed 3 keys and then hits enter, and then the entire word is spelled out on screen.
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Near the end of the satellite dish antenna's draining cycle, some of the water leaps from the outer edge toward the drain, a reversal of the laws of physics.
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During the opening title scene, when one of the soldiers is hit by a motorbike, he is thrown before the impact actually occurs.
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When the antennae of the dish is raised out of the water, it is dripping wet in one shot, and bone dry in the next. (The second shot is apparently reversed footage, where they sank the antennae into the water and reversed it to make it appear to be rising out of the water.)
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The communications dish raised from the water (actually the Aricebo radio-telescope) is supposed to be a Russian construction, or at least Cuban, yet the "Danger" warning signs painted on the walls are in English.
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