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Character error (1) |
Continuity (5) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Errors in geography (2) |
Factual errors (3) |
Miscellaneous (1) |
Plot holes (1) |
Revealing mistakes (5) |
Spoilers (3)
Character error
On the TV news broadcast about 11-13 minutes in, the weather forecast is erroneously spelled "Weather FORCAST". This occurs in a couple of different scenes.
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Continuity
While Melina is hanging from the elevator Hauser asks her for her gun but she still has it in her holster when entering the elevator.
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When Lori and Carl fight with each other for the first time, when Carl throws her to the glass in the ceiling you can see that her hairs were tied before. But after she fells her hairs are not tied.
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During the fight in their flat and the following pursuit Lori never reloads her revolver.
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When Melina and Douglas hit the ground in the flying car she is injured, but between the different scenes her head is in different positions.
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When Quaid shows the new guy where to safely hold parts on the robot they are assembling, in the next shot the new guy doesn't seem to take any notice and puts his hand in the unsafe position again and continues working.
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Crew or equipment visible
When Doug and Lori are fighting, Doug gets kicked into a set of stairs. A crash pad is clearly visible when Doug hits the stairs and seconds later is not there anymore.
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Errors in geography
In the beginning of the film, Australia's antipodes is shown as being in Britain, while in fact all Australia's antipodes lie squarely in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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When Quaid and Melina travel to meet the Resistance in the ruins of London, they use the London Underground. However, the train they use is clearly a Toronto subway train, one of a completely different design to anything used on the London Underground, but with London Underground stickers and posters on it. Likewise, the station they use is clearly not one in London.
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Factual errors
If The Fall is free-falling and assuming no resistance, the occupants would be weightless for the entire trip. However people were shown in normal gravity except for the midpoint flip. At 1-G the trip would take 42 minutes (a lot more than the 17 minutes as suggested in the movie), therefore the capsule has to be accelerating/decelerating at higher rates.
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For The Fall to travel the diameter of the Earth in 17 minutes, it would have to maintain an average speed of over 45000 kph (28000 mph). At this speed, it would be impossible for anyone to survive standing on the outside, because of both the airflow and the high temperatures resulting from friction.
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To travel 8,000 miles in 17 minutes the Fall has to have an average speed of 28,235 mph. At those speeds the ship would have to be traveling in a vacuum or the Fall would burn up with the friction of the air.
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Miscellaneous
The music credits mention only Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17, but the first part Quaid played on the grand piano is actually from the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" C# minor op. 27/2 - only the second piece is from the opening of the third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest" in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2.
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Plot holes
When Carl leaves the rebel base in the waste lands he is wearing a respirator, but he enters the "helicoper" without passing through an air lock. Thus he would be exposed to what ever the respirator was meant to protect him against.
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Revealing mistakes
At the very beginning of the movie, Melina falls down a shaft, she moves as if she is attached to cables and not free falling.
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During the zero gravity scene the empty cases ejected from Quaid's weapon are clearly blank rounds.
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When Quaid is opening his passport inside First Bank's vault, at the bottom of the page "Reed Henry" is mistakenly written "Reed Henty".
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The Arabic language written on the top left side of the passports, make no sense. They are single random letters, while in Arabic words are mostly written attached together. Same goes for the Persian language.
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As Hauser plays the excerpt of Ludwig van Beethoven on the piano in his apartment to unlock The Key, there are piano keys which either remain depressed after his fingers leave the key or, more likely, press themselves (like a pianola) revealing that Colin Farrell is not actually playing the excerpt for real.
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Spoilers
Continuity
In "The Fall" when Quaid flies in with a helicopter, he enters a room where he sets the explosives. Right before he enters that room, you can see from the window behind him that "The Fall" is moving. However, the release of it is shown after Quaid enters the room.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
When Matthias is shot, you can clearly see black cloth on the robot's neck and shoulder areas where mechanical pipes and rods are supposed to be. They are visible in wide shots, however the black clothing can be seen on close-ups on the robots standing next to Melina.Share this
Plot holes
Quaid did not know Melina's name even in his dream, but when Cohaagen is explaining how his plan succeeded, Quaid says to Melina that he is sorry, even before her name was told.Share this
