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Casino Royale (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Crew or equipment visible: Camera crew reflected in the door of the Ford hire car and the Range Rover when Bond gets out of both at the hotel.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Towards the beginning of the film, when Bond jumps off the van into the embassy, the patch of ground he lands on is obviously a landing mat with leaves and turf covering it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the very beginning of the film, when Bond is talking to Dryden in his office, a wire can be seen leading from the Dryden's chair off-screen. You later on see that was used to flip the chair.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Camera briefly reflected in a shop window when Bond leaves the bank in Venice.
  
  
• Continuity: During the chase scene at the airport, the Miami Police fire at the fueling vehicle, taking out at least three tires. During the final sequence of the scene, however, the vehicle clearly has all its tires intact.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Boeing 747 does not have afterburners, as depicted during the airport chase scene, when it used them to avoid hitting the Miami police vehicles.
  
  
• Factual errors: When an International fuel truck is being filled it releases air from air brakes. When Bond is driving this truck several minutes later the brake lines are damaged but the brakes do not engage as is normal in truck with dual pot air systems.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the last scene of the movie, when Mr. White exits his car and answers his cell phone- you can notice that he is wearing knee pads under his trousers. Seconds later, while Bond phones him, he is shot in the knee and falls to the ground and the knee pads help break his fall.
  
  
• Continuity: Miami airport. The smashed police car - when already stopped - turns 180 degrees between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Miami airport worker stands next to the truck when killed. Later, his body is a few meters away from the truck.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the opening parkour sequence, Bond is being held at gunpoint just inside the embassy wall. He shoots a propane cylinder with his second shot causing an explosion. This was tested on the TV show "MythBusters" (2003) and found to be impossible with a 9mm round let alone the .380 (9mm Corto) round fired by Bond's weapon of choice the Walther P99.
  
  
• Continuity: Sunlight direction - and also the position of the sun - frequently changes when Bond fights Mollaka on the crane. For example, when Mollaka jumps down the higher crane, the sun is behind him, and when lands is shines from front. There is also a remarkable change, when Bond jumps down.
  
  
• Continuity: Sunlight Direction - When we first see Valenka, she is climbing aboard Le Chiffre's yacht after a swim. In close-up, the sun is in the background, toward the front of the boat. In the long shot, shadows indicate the sun is behind the yacht.
  
  
• Continuity: After Vesper inserts the red wire into the defibrillator pad and presses the red button, the next cut shows Bond awakening and you can see the little red wire from the pad has fallen onto his chest. After the next cut, the wire has been re-inserted into the pad.
  
  
• Continuity: Upon arrival at Casino Royale, Bond receives a package with keys to a new Aston Martin. When he sits in the car, he leaves the driver's door open as he checks out the hidden compartments where the defibrillator and gun are located. After he closes the last compartment, the driver's door is now closed when it was open a moment earlier.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond enters the encrypter password before the tournament, he enters 836547. Later in the film, the password is revealed to be VESPER, which does not match. (It should be 837737.)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the opening chase sequence the "bomber" attempts to shoot Bond with a semi-automatic handgun. He pulls the trigger several times only to discover that he is out of ammo. While many semi-automatic handguns lock after they fire the last round, the H&K USP Compact used by the character is a Double-Action Only model, meaning the trigger could be pulled and the gun could be "dry fired" in this manner.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Originally it is believed that in the final poker hand with all 4 players all in there's a mistake, because the total amount Bond wins is 120 million. Player 1 goes all inn with 6, Player 2 goes all inn with 5, leaving approximately 109 million. Bond goes all inn with 40.5 million which means he can only win 40.5 million from Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre would still have 120 (- 6 - 5 - 40.5 - 40.5) - 92 = 28 million left. It is claimed that the game would not be over. However, review of the actual scenes and Mathis' statement that there is 115 million in the final pot actually reveals that Bond was likely a chip leader and that someone (Felix Leiter, who staked Bond's re-buy) did not buy back in, and that the full potential of $120m would not be seen on the table. It starts with $24m in the pot (a quote from Mathis), to which Fukutu adds $6m and Ade adds $5m. The pot is now $35m. Le Chiffre adds $12m, raising the pot to $47m. A count of Bond's chips shows that he has 26 $1m blue chips, 7 20-chip stacks of $100,000 chips, and 1 $500,000 chip, making his total $40,500,000. When he goes all-in, that raises the pot to $87.5m. That means Le Chiffre needs to add $28.5m to match Bond's raise. He has 20 $1m blue chips, 13 $500,000 chips, 4 $100,000 chips in his hand, one $100,000 chip on his cards, and 5 $100,000 chips sitting away from his neater stacks, giving him $27.5m. When Le Chiffre goes all-in with $27.5m, that brings the pot to $115m, which Mathis points out.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning, an adult is playing a pinball machine. When he walks away from the machine to let a child play, the score reads "1,049", however after five seconds, the pinball machine is shown again and the score reads "0,506".
  
  
• Factual errors: Early in the movie when Le Chiffre is playing poker with another gentleman, he says, "All in. I have two pair and you have a 17.4% chance of making your straight," the 17.4% is correct from his opponents perspective since he knows his own 2 cards plus 4 community cards leaving 46 unknown cards and 8 cards which would give him a straight (8/46=17.4), but from Le Chiffre's point of view, he knows 2 more cards and therefore the probability of a getting a straight would be 8/44=18.2%. It does not matter that he doesn't truly know his opponents cards, he is merely stating the probability assuming he has an outside straight draw.
  
  
• Continuity: At the airport scene, when the bomber first checks his cell-phone to check the bomb's status, before the fight on the runway, the clock on the phone shows 2:13 am. After a long car chase and fight, well over 10 minutes in real life, when the bomber looks at his phone to send the call to the bomb, the phone still reads 2:13 am.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Bond is poisoned with digitalis during the poker game, he has a life-threatening ventricular tachycardia. However the monitors show only a moderate tachycardia (134 -136) which would not be an immediate threat. The heart rate should have been at least 180 - 200 for the scene to make sense (It is also hard to explain how the ECG trace could be obtained with only one lead, the other one being unplugged). Ventricular fibrillation would also have been a credible cause of near-death, but it is ruled out by the rhythmic ECG trace shown.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When James Bond performs CPR on Vesper her chest does not rise at all during mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. However, this is because her lungs are full of water.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When James finds Vesper sitting in the shower, she says "It's like there's blood on my hands and it's not coming off" but her lip movements do not match what she's saying.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the big poker game as Bond returns after the rebuy he sits down and says "shall we raise the blinds?", reminiscent of all the previous Bonds at the chemin de fer table and someone asking to raise the stakes to apply the pressure and show Bond's coolness under pressure. While that is a reasonable request in chemin de fer and maybe even in a cash NLHE game, they are now playing in a tournament and in such blinds are raised at certain times based on the structure of the tournament and not at the whims or requests of the players. Since Bond is supposed to be an experienced player he would have known better than to make this remark.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the major poker tournament Bond passes a chip from the table to the dealer as a tip. While this is done in cash games, in a tournament the chips have no actual value. They chips are just markers to play with as the money is pooled together and paid out to those that cash, in this case in the special account that is unlocked by the password. If the chip had any value Bond would be tipping the dealer with the casino's money as all his winnings were in that account
  
  
• Factual errors: During the opening chase sequence when Bond cuts the cranes rope the boom doesn't move at all. It should spring back up (potentially toppling the crane) as it is under tension from supporting the load.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the airport scene, a sprinkler system can not be operated with a key. Sprinklers operate when a certain temperature has been reached and start off one at a time if the fire spreads never all at the same time.
  
  
• Plot holes: After receiving a call from M about missing funds, Bond calls Mr. Mendel while quickly exiting the Venice hotel. While racing down the stairs, he clearly has both his and Vesper's mobile phones in hand. Minutes later, he is fully submersed under water following the building collapse. This would have most likely rendered both mobile phones unusable. The corresponding failure of Vesper's mobile would have made the subsequent scene with him on the sailboat viewing messages on her mobile most unlikely.
  
  
• Continuity: When M has Bond chipped, the technician injects the chip into the middle of his forearm. But when the scanner checks to make sure that the chip is functioning properly, it shows up on the screen in the wrist, not the forearm.
  
  
• Factual errors: While fighting hand to hand with a villain in the sinking house, Bond holds his opponents shirt as he rips an electrical cable from the wall and then presses the exposed wires against the villains chest. Since Bond was also electrically bonded to the villain by their wet clothes, Bond would have suffered the same electrical shock.
  
  
• Factual errors: No construction nail guns fire without being pressed firmly against a surface. You must depress this lever at the end of the gun to fire it. It would take two hands to do so, but no one firing the gun does so.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond arrives to Nassau he is driving on the right of the road (as we do in America), when in Nassau they drive on the left side on the road (as in England).
  
  
• Factual errors: After Le Chiffre gets the money from the African warlord, he calls his broker and sells short additional shares of the aircraft maker. After his man fails to blow up the plane, his broker tells him that his PUTS have expired worthless. Selling a stock short is not the same thing as buying a put option.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: For most of the car alarms that are going off, the vehicles were never actually touched.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The tour bus with the giant black section in the middle is obviously designed to break away.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Bond is trying to save Vesper from the cage underwater, in one shot the impression of an outline of a diving mask on her "underwater makeup" is clearly visible on her forehead.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: When Mathis is talking with Bond before he is shocked, lighting equipment is reflected in his sunglasses
  
  

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