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John Malkovich in Ripley's Game (2002)

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Ripley's Game

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Continuity

In the scene between Reeves and Ripley in Ripley's kitchen, there are two fried eggs on Reeves's plate. However, when Reeves is sat down in the library, there are three eggs on his plate.
When Jonathan Trevanny meets his Berlin doctor for the test results, the doctor's tie appears to completely change over an elevator trip from the doctors office down to the buildings lobby.
When Ripley and Trevanny are on the train to kill the Ukrainian mobster. Ripley puts on gloves before the killing. But after he does not have them on.
The egg stain on Ripley's sofa disappears between shots.
When Trevanny and Reeves first meet in the hotel, Trevanny's cigar changes orientation, between shots.

Factual errors

The protagonists board an IC (Intercity) train to Düsseldorf, and we see the interior of Avmz 111 waggons that were built in the 1960ies and later modernized. Just after the events on the train, the film cuts to a modern ICE train whose production began in 1988.

Revealing mistakes

Blood pouches can be seen under the shirt of the man in the bed before he is shot when the Russian hit men go to get Reeves.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

When Jonathan goes to the doctor in Berlin, the doctor's lips stops moving long before his sentence is finished.

Errors in geography

When the train which Trevanny takes to Duesseldorf leaves Berlin, a historic building can be seen through the windows. This is the "Theater des Westens" which is located just north of the tracks and west to Zoo Station. So the train is traveling east while to reach its destination it would have to go in the opposite direction.
At one point Ripley says: ''Well, don't worry. If they come for anyone, they'll come for me. I think these Balkan types tend to take strangling quite personally.'', referring to the Ukrainian/Russian or German mobsters that are after them, yet none of these ethnicities are from Balkan Peninsula. The term he should had used is Slavic or German.
When Ripley and Trevanny leave the train station, they are supposed to have arrived in Düsseldorf. The approaching police cars have license plates with a 'D' designating them to be in Düsseldorf. However, behind the police cars, the letters "City Carré Passage" can be seen on a building. There is no shopping area with this name in Düsseldorf. They are still in Berlin, at the main train station.
When the train which Trevanny takes to Duesseldorf leaves Berlin, a historic building can be seen through the windows. This is the "Theater des Westens" which is located just north of the tracks and west to Zoo Station. So the train is traveling east while to reach its destination it would have to go in the opposite direction.

Plot holes

As Tom Ripley leaves the Trevannys' house after the home invasion, he tells Sarah to call the police and report it as a burglary gone wrong. However, he takes the gun he used to kill the two 'burglars', and which will make it difficult for Sarah to explain how the two men were killed with a gun that is no longer there.

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