Goofs

During the caviar factory battle, Bond hides behind a table, holding his P99 pistol as he yells, "Get out!" to Valentin and Christmas. After a cutaway, Bond is holding a machine gun, then after another, he fires the original pistol.

During the opening scene, before Bond jumps out the window, he is clearly shown tying the curtain rope to his belt (this is also seen again as he is falling). Yet, when he lands on the ground, he simply lets go of the rope and walks off without undoing it.

In the underground base, when Bond is rushing to get to the door, it is almost completely shut. In the next shot, when Bond is diving through the door, it is only about half shut, giving him enough time to jump through it before it closes.

When Bond is sitting in the torture chair, and his right hand becomes free, you see him release his neck restraint, but never his left arm as he jumps from the chair.

In the opening scene in Bilbao, Spain, after the shots, police sirens are heard, and several cars of the Spanish National Police are seen through the window, at several different times. When the police enter the office, however, their uniforms are not of the Spanish National Police, but the Basque regional police (Ertzaintza), which would not have jurisdiction in this case.

Dr. Jones claims that six kilos of plutonium is not enough to make a bomb, yet the "fat man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki contained six kilos of plutonium.

Renard's file says that the bullet traveling through his brain is in the medulla oblongata, thus killing his senses. This area of the brain controls basic functions such as breathing and heart rate, not the sensory perceptions.

King can't be a terribly good engineer. He's built his oil pipeline over a glacier. Glaciers flow. The pipeline would break within a year.

While obviously played for laughs and hampered by the "not under 12" rating restrictions, fact remains that any device which would allow one to see through a person's outer clothing would not somehow magically draw the line at undergarments.

When James is being told why Robert Carlyle's character is so deadly (no pain etc.), they mention a specific part of the brain - Medulla Oblongata, which the character has a bullet travelling through. This area of the brain controls basic functions such as breathing and heart rate - you can't survive with a bullet there...

When Bond stands up behind the glass doors after the MI6 explosion, he is dry. When he climbs into the jet boat, he is already wet. This is from the sprinkler system that activated immediately after the explosion.

Assuming - wrongly - that a rod of weapons grade plutonium probably can cause a meltdown in a reactor, while it wouldn't technically be an "explosion" it would still be a massive release of energy. So that's a fair enough word, especially when used a non-expert such as Bond.

When Bond drives his speedboat through the market during the boat chase scene, a view from the driver's perspective shows food and debris striking what is apparently a windshield. While his boat has no windshield, the police car following (whose perspective we see) does.

In the opening sequence we see a hole blown in the face of the MI6 building when the money explodes. When Bond launches the jet boat, the hole appears to be gone. It's because the hole is obscured by a lamp pole and the smoke from the explosion.

When Bond slices the parachute with his skis, not only is the damage in the wrong place and the wrong size in the next cut, but there is no reason for the engine to be sputtering once the parachute is damaged - it was not hit.

Plutonium is very dense (19.8 grams per cubic centimeter) and a hemisphere of the size depicted couldn't be handled as if it were made of foam.

When Bond is traveling down the pipeline there are lights on the inside of the pipe. No pipeline would be built with lights inside it.

When Renard holds the scalding rock, it burns his skin to the point where smoke comes out. After he lets go of the rock, there is not a mark on his hand. Despite the fact that he cannot "feel pain" his hand would still be visibly burned very badly.

After the gun barrel sequence, Bond walks down a street in Bilbao and you can see an old lady hiding and looking at him as well as the fans (some flashing cameras) being held back by a steel fence so that they don't walk in the scene.

Although the helicopter-carried buzz-saw blades look impressive, in practice, they would be totally ineffective killing tools against anyone who wasn't taught to run away from things by Prometheus' Meredith Vickers.

At the caviar factory the bullets make bright flashes on impact (which in itself is not realistic), even on wooden surfaces.

In the chase scene with Bond and the Lady in the Sun seeker, in the location near the Millennium dome as the sun seeker approaches the beach you can see that the metal barrier has been already been damaged prior to the sun seeker actually crashing in to barrier.

A price tag is clearly visible inside a supposedly old and rusty lamp hanging above the table in the room where M is held prisoner.

In the casino scene, Bond remarks "Nothing comes free from you, Zukovsky." However, Bond's lips do not mouth the word "Zukovsky," but the word "Valentin".

The engine on one of the parahawks can be heard to be having trouble even though Bond only managed to damage the parachute.

While in the caviar factory, Bond fires his P99 at the Renard goons, and the slide of the gun can be seen going back three times, but we hear only two shots.

When Bond is questioning Valentin after falling into the caviar pit, Bond says "And the payoff in the casino?" However Bond's lips do not mouth the word "casino." The cadence and tone of his voice suggest this line was dubbed in post-production.

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As Bond jumps through the door in the underground shootout, we see a brief shot of him bounding headfirst through a door, with his gun outstretched. Closer inspection reveals that the gun was discharging during this jump, but no sound is heard.

In Bond's barrel roll in the film's beginning chase sequence, the stunt driver's helmet is seen.

During the boat chase, after the boat hits the passanger jetty a camera on a boom can be seen on a boat as the boat speeds away. (DVD Widescreen Version)

At about 8:58 during the boat chase, a barge with "PLA diver London" is visible with a camera on a boom and at least 3 crew members.

The shadow of the camera crane is visible when Bobby's car breaks down.

A remote head camera crane is visible during the opening boat chase (as the lead speedboat destroys the pier on left-hand bank, the wide shot reveals crane in the top left corner).

The protesters at the church are waving Hungarian flags, not Azerbaijani ones.

During the opening boat chase, the route actually taken through London's Isle of Dogs does not match the route displayed on Bond's on-board computer map. Specifically: The map shows the route through West India Docks, but the chase is obviously through Millwall Inner and Outer Docks. Further, the boats come out of what is, in reality, a dead end.

The Russian Atomic Energy Commission plane has a French registration number.

The acronym for the "Russian Atomic Energy Agency" is written in Greek (Alpha Sigma Delta), not Cyrillic (Russian) characters. The real name of this agency is Minatom.

It's never explained why Renard's henchmen are willing to die with him on the submarine. The explosion would kill them too, yet they completely ignore this.

The torture chair would crush Bonds windpipe (pushing from behind against the metal collar) before it would break his neck. The sound Bond makes under the pressure is the sound of a man suffocating, not an under pressure neck.

It is stated that the bomb traveling in the pipeline is traveling at 70 miles per hour and has to cover a distance of 106 miles. Bond states that this will take 78 minutes. To cover 106 miles at 70 miles per hour would actually take 91 minutes. However, Bond admits in GoldenEye (1995) that he was never good with numbers.

Renard talks about Hindu pilgrims holding scalding rocks to "test their devotion to God." Hindus have never had any such tradition.

Elektra King claims to be of Azeri descent on her maternal side. Thus she thinks she is saving her cultural heritage by rerouting the pipeline around the church. But the church as proved by the priest is Russian orthodox and that is far removed from Azeri culture.

After Bond and Christmas climb out of the blown pipeline (which is in Azerbaijan - since shortly before Bond was in Baku, and Electra was called and informed about a problem) Bond says "What are you doing here in Kazakhstan?"