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Anachronisms (1) |
Character error (3) |
Continuity (3) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Errors in geography (2) |
Factual errors (1) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (2) |
Plot holes (1) |
Revealing mistakes (3) |
Spoilers (7)
Anachronisms
The Access credit card used had been defunct since the mid-1990s.
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Character error
Private Bell tells Jim he is out of bullets as he runs out the window. Soldiers are trained to call it ammunition, or ammo.
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When Frank and Jim are on top of the apartment building talking about the lack of rain, two of the buckets for gathering rain are laundry baskets, with holes in them.
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A soldier radios in "I repeat". In UK signals, "repeat" is reserved for artillery fire. He should've said "I say again".
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Continuity
When Jim is walking through London,the clock on Big Ben says 8:15. In the next shot, it says 6:40.
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In the first shot of Centre Point at Tottenham Court Road, only one lorry is parked beneath the building. In the next shot, slightly closer up, a second one is parked in front of the first.
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In the night sequences at the mansion, despite torrential rain, thunder and lightning, a full moon is seen shining brightly in a clear sky over the mansion.
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Crew or equipment visible
When the camera pulls back to show Manchester aflame, a row of flashing lights is visible in the distance. It's the police keeping traffic back so that the road looks empty. About 2 seconds later, a car drives by in the distance.
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During the first shot of Centre Point at Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, on the left side of the screen, a man can be seen changing the bags of a dustbin to the right of the stationary lorry.
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Errors in geography
The blockade is supposed to be situated North East of Manchester. Yet during the scene when Jim escapes back to it, the signs read Blackpool and Fleetwood, and also shows signs for Lancaster and the Lake District. These signs are only seen on the M6, running to the West of Manchester.
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Frank drives his taxi through the Blackwall Tunnel because "it's the most direct route to the other side of the river." They start on the north side of the river and head north toward Manchester. Going through the Blackwall Tunnel would actually take them south.
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Factual errors
Major West's SA80 fires many more rounds than would likely be in the magazine. Most hand-held weapons give less than a minute of fire before they need to be reloaded.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Rage can spread from human to animal or animal to human, by biting, or infected blood landing in the victims mouth, eyes, or nose. The movie has no infected dogs or birds of prey. The virus may require a host closely related to humans, like the chimps from which the outbreak originally began. This is reinforced when the film shows uninfected horses.
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The recording about the "answer to infection" mentions the M602, 26 miles outside of Manchester. The UK uses Imperial measurements for distances, so the use of "miles" is correct.
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Plot holes
The beginning of the movie explains that the Rage Virus makes people lose a lot of blood. When Jim is walking around the destroyed hospital and streets, there is no blood anywhere.
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Revealing mistakes
About eleven minutes in, someone walks up a distant sidewalk. Since Jim is calling out for someone, that person would've heard Jim, or Jim would've seen him. Clearly, the person is not part of the movie.
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In a shot across the deserted Westminster Bridge, the traffic lights at the junction of Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment are red. However, the national power grid has been shut down.
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After leaving the hospital, when Jim stands at the bottom of steps at the junction of Carlton House Terrace and Waterloo place, someone is walking down the hill on the right.
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Spoilers
Continuity
Towards the end of the movie, Hannah crashes the car through the gate. In the next scene, the car is undamaged.Share this
Continuity
When the Jeep returns to the mansion after picking up Jim, Selena, and Hannah from the roadblock, two soldiers open the gate to let the Jeep onto the grounds. The black soldier is Private Mailer, the soldier tied up in the backyard. In the DVD commentary, Danny Boyle said he was so impressed with Marvin Campbell in the few small scenes he'd shot that he decided to cast Campbell as Mailer. All of Campbell's previous scenes were deleted, except the shot of him opening the gate.Share this
Errors in geography
The jet flies east up Honnister Pass in the Lake District. The farm is on the coast of Ennerdale, which is west of Honnister.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When the soldiers are marching Jim and Sergeant Farrell off to shoot them, they are standing by piles of dead people. A few of the dead victim's chests are rising and falling.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Jim walks into his old house, his dead mother and father are in bed, holding a picture of him. Their nails hint that they've been dead for awhile, but the skin hasn't turned color.Share this
Revealing mistakes
In the alternate ending, after Jim dies in the hospital, he clearly breathes as Selena stoops over him.Share this
