Goofs

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.

Bond acquires gloves after falling out of the plane.

While escaping in the plane at the pre-titles sequence, takes of an exploding Russian base can be seen, without any of the soldiers or vehicles that were chasing Bond before his jump.

As the satellite antenna is re-positioning itself, Bond shoves a lead pipe into the chain and, judging by the shadows and audible footsteps, runs off and down a set of stairs. The next shot after Bond is shown running down steps, the pipe now all of a sudden has a smaller chain wrapped around it to prevent it from coming loose.

The missile blows a hole right through the plane's port wing, yet this mysteriously disappears again for the long shot of the aircraft coming down to the lake.

Onatopp and Ourumov activate the GoldenEye satellite by turning two keys simultaneously. As with nuclear missiles, two keys are used so that no single person can launch. However, the keys Onatopp and Ourumov use are within arm's reach of each other, defeating their intended purpose as one person could easily turn both keys.

During the opening scene, Bond uses a laser to cut through metal plating. Bond is shown staring at the spot where he is cutting with no eye protection. A laser powerful enough to cut through metal that quickly would be extremely bright at the point where it's cutting. Bond would be left with temporary vision loss at best. Also, it would be painful to look at and he would not be able to stare at the spot for very long.

Bond bungee-jumps from a dam in the first scene. When he reaches the bottom, where the rubber-bands are stretched the most, he shoots a hook and winds himself down. That maneuver would demand enormous strength in his hands, since the bungee-jump bands force him upwards, and he needs to hold on to the hook-mechanism pulling him down.

A slamming door could not waft all those candle flames (or indeed Simonova's hair) from across the opposite side of such a large church.

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.

When Bond stops his Aston Martin during the race with the Ferrari, he uses his right hand to pull on the emergency brake. As Aston Martin DB5s have the emergency brake to the outside of the Driver's seat, this is correct. Some assume that this is a goof as most cars have the emergency brake between the seats.

At least one of the soldiers that Bond kills on the runway reappear when Bond and Natalya try to escape the archive. In this particular case it is allowable as twin henchmen are a running gag in Bond lore.

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.

It is very fast, but Q does in fact disarm the pen grenade with three audible clicks before putting it back into his pocket. When slowed down the audience should even be able to see Q's thumb in the middle of the final click after snatching the pen back from Bond.

When Bill Tanner gives a report to Bond and M he refers to satellites being down. He should be calling them earth stations, or satellite earth stations. The satellites in orbit were destroyed by the GoldenEye detonation. That is why Tanner needs to wait for another one to "come into position."

When Bond is rescued from the antenna at the end of the film, a helicopter would not have been able to get that close to him without its blades coming into contact with the metal scaffolding that he's hanging from.

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. This is because the footage is played backwards.

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.)

The cockpit display of one of the MIGs heading towards Severnaya shows ORDINANCE STATUS HOMERS............NORMAL AIR TO AIR........NORMAL AIR TO GROUND.....NORMAL WATER BALLOONS.....READY with some of the letters flipped to make it look Russian.

Bond leans against a stone wall in the weapons factory, and it flexes.

When James Bond drives the armored tank through the cargo truck carrying thousands of aluminum cans of the French carbonated mineral water Perrier, water would have been fiercely spraying everywhere, drenching him, the tank, and the surroundings. Instead, the scene is as dry as can be.

Bond is playing Chemin de Fer against Xenia although in the movie she calls it Baccarat. In the second round, Bond has two face cards and after asking for a third, he wins six to Xenia's five. . In modern baccarat, with forced drawing rules, the Banker Hand would draw with a six or less if the Player Hand drew a six. Thereefore, Xenia could have called draw as the banker. However, in the early 20th century, both sides have free will in every situation, as long as neither side had a natural 8 or 9, which froze both hands at two cards.

The helicopters, despite being already close by, become audible only after Jack Wade calls for the Marines to appear.

During the chase scene in St. Petersburg, James Bond drives the tank, easily bulldozing and demolishing over any and all buildings and cars, without taking damage or even slowing down. But later, for the head-on collision between the railroad train and the tank, the tank instantly, upon crash impact, crumbles into millions of pieces. In reality, such a tough tank would stay mostly intact and the train would be completely derailed off its track.

When Q is showing Bond the leather belt gadget, he is clearly looking past Bond and reading his lines.

The pre-credits sequence of the film is set in 1986. Yet (with very close analysis) a Soviet soldier's newspaper reads "1995" at the top.

Bond and Onatopp talk as if Georgia is part of "Russia", while in fact Georgia got its independence in 1991 as the USSR collapsed.

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).

In addition to the already mentioned inconsistency, the headline in the newspaper in the opening 1986 sequence clearly reads "15 years ago the first Soviet soccer player was allowed to play abroad". This happened in 1980 which puts the newspaper date in 1995.

When the plane is diving towards the ground, there is a high pitched siren that the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" was famous for in World War 2.

It seems to be common to add the siren on any planes that are shown diving in movies.

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.

When Xenia shoots the Tiger helicopter pilots, her gun seems to have a silencer attached but when she shoots, you can hear loud gunshots.

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.

Boris changes a password to "chair" and audibly presses more keys than there are characters.

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.

Wires pulling the cockpit upwards are visible, when Bond ejects it from the helicopter just moments before it explodes.

Right after James Bond meets Jack Wade for the first time, a black car passes by. You can see the reflection of the crew on the side of the passing car.

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.

Arkangelsk, where the pre-title sequence takes place, is on a river delta on the White Sea, and the surrounding terrain is flat. There are no snow-covered mountains and no large dam nearby.

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.

When Bond first enters the repository of monuments from the Soviet era of Russia, an American blue jay's song can be heard.

The locomotive hauling Trevelyan's train is not a Russian design, but a British Railways class 20, with a fake snowplow nose and additional side-skirts.

A satellite in the low earth orbit does not require such enormous dish to communicate with. Even television feeders for the geostationary orbit are much smaller. Aside from technical aspects, a weapon requiring such large antennas would be to easy to be paralyzed by enemy simply by destroying the large ground antenna with a small missile or even a grenade launcher.

Minister Mishkin brings Bond's Walther with him while interrogating Bond and Natalya and just sets it on the table within both Bond and Natalya's reach. Yet he did not unload it first, it makes no sense for him to set a loaded gun on a table within reach of one person he suspects is a terrorist and another person he suspects of being a traitor.

When Trevelyan realises that Bond and Natalya have arrived at his base in Cuba, his order is "Kill them". But when his soldiers catch up to Bond, they take him prisoner instead.

Trevelyan's plan was to steal all the money from the bank of England before destroying London with an EMP blast, thus crippling England's economy beyond repair, leaving Trevelyan and his accomplices rich. This makes little sense as England's GDP would have been completely destroyed in the process, rendering all the money Trevelyan stole worthless.

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.

The satellites are said to be orbiting 100 km above the earth, but that is far too low. The minimum altitude necessary to place something in a stable orbit is 640 km. Any object lower than that soon falls back to earth due to atmospheric drag.

Bond drives the tank with the driver's hatch open, but really doing so would result in injury from all the rubble that falls down onto the tank (not to mention metal cans of water).

When Bond is talking to Valentin Zukovsky and says the line "They used the chopper to steal a nuclear weapon", he pronounces the word nuclear as "nucular". Not the kind of error someone of Bond's sophistication and education would make.

During the briefing with M over the Severnaya incident, Ouromov's file misspells Arkhangelsk as Arkhangeesk.

Bond (along with Trevelyan and Ourumov) do not appear to age much in the 9-year span in the film. However, Bond later appears to age much at the time of 'Die Another Day', which is presumably set 7 years later.