Goofs

When Landy calls Nevins in Naples after Bourne has escaped, she says "I want you to secure that area." But when Bourne plays back the conversation on his tape recorder, Landy is saying "I want that area secured."

In the Moscow car chase, Bourne's car is hit from the driver's side by a police car. The driver's side window breaks. In the next few shots, no broken glass is seen on Bourne. In the very next shot, the car is not damaged on the driver's side.

When Bourne drops the cell phone beside Nevins (after knocking him out and cloning his GSM SIM) it is left facing down. When Nevins regains consciousness, the phone is right side up.

When Jason is on the rooftop observing Pamela and staff through his rifle scope, Jason's view of the personnel inside is clear and totally unobstructed. However, camera shots inside the building show sheer white curtains across all the windows.

During the fight in the German apartment with Jason's former colleague, Jason clearly has a cut and swollen lip. In the restroom where he washes blood off his hands and looks in the mirror, his face shows no sign of the wounds from the fight.

The water heater that Jason supposedly disconnects the gas line, is actually an electric water heater (no chimney). Jason disconnects the hot water line. Also, a pipe fitting can't be loosened without a wrench.

Disconnecting a cooking gas line and attempting to ignite it with a magazine in a toaster does not produce an explosion that blows people off their feet. The gas and air must be precisely mixed; if there's too much air or too much gas, there would be just a small "poof" and not an explosion. That, of course, presumes the magazine lights up in less than five minutes.

When Bourne checks in at the Brecker Hotel, he is immediately greeted by the German hotel clerk in English. As the clerk had no prior knowledge that Bourne was American, he should have greeted him German.

In India, Bourne buys a bottle of water from a street vendor. The bottle is Himalayan Natural Mineral Water, stocked only by upper-class areas of India such as 5-star hotels, embassies and expensive restaurants, not by small street vendors. They probably in India Have street vendors that might sell counterfeit branded water.

When the Berlin SEK unit assaults the hotel Bourne just checked in to, some of the police officers carry Heckler & Koch G36A1 assault rifles (or, more accurately, civilian SL-8 versions of that weapon, mocked up to look like it). None of the German SEK units uses this type of weapon. It wouldn't make sense either, because it's too bulky for close quarters battle.

The banners carried by the protesters contain several spelling errors, including "Meer" (ocean) instead of "Mehr" (more). This is inspired from a real incident where the Germans protested against education budget cuts by putting spelling errors into their banner texts.

When Bourne discovers and writes down Landy's phone number it has the area code 757. "Langley" (CIA Headquarters) is in Mclean, Va whose area code is 703. Area code 757 is in southeast Virginia, home to Langley Air Force Base.

One person writes "In the hotel the clerk punches the buttons 225 on the phone, but the display shows 235." Actually she dials 2235 with 2 being the prefix often used to dial a room in a hotel.

After Jason steals the car with the tool that he pushes in the ignition he gets out of the vehicle. When he returns to the car he starts the vehicle. The distinct sound of keys rattling can be heard. So obviously he mysteriously got keys to the vehicle he had stolen. This is because an alternative scene was shot where he approaches the owner of the car and buys it on the spot.

The clerk at the reception of the Hotel Brecker addresses Bourne in English at once, although she can't instantly know that he is American. In the previous scenes Bourne addressed each person who answered the telephone in German and they answered in German, however in this scene he clearly states "Pamela Landy, please". From this, the operator is likely to have instantly determined the conversation would be in English.

When the camera shows Alexanderplatz square in Berlin from a bird's perspective, a yellow tram enters from the left in the wrong direction with its back first and the electric pantograph on the rear end. Either they had a rehearsal with the tram going back and forth, or the cutter placed this shot running backward. Protesters are also digitally run over by the tram.

When Bourne searches for information on Vladimir Neski at the Internet cafe, he searches for keywords "Politician Neski Russia" and hits search. However, the search results immediately display as "Results 1-10 of about 2,910 for Murder, Berlin, Hotel" and not the keywords he entered.

When the 4WD crashes into the river, Bourne is able to take one breath of air before it fills with water. He then struggles to escape from the vehicle, pulls Marie clear, and attempts to give her mouth-to-mouth three times. He then sits underwater for a period of time. Whilst Bourne may be very fit and trained to work underwater, it seems impossible that he would have been able to perform all this strenuous activity and provide Marie with three mouthfuls of air, all on the one breath. It seems he should have drowned himself.

In the hotel the clerk punches the buttons 225 on the phone, but the display shows 235.

When Bourne is in the Hotel Brecker in Berlin, walking around the hallways and in some rooms, daylight is visible in some shots from the background windows behind the curtains. However, the scene was supposedly taking place at night.

In flashbacks involving Conklin of an assassination that presumably happened before the events of The Bourne Identity, Conklin strangely appears older than he did in the events that occurred later in The Bourne Identity.

In flashbacks of events that evidently happened years before during Bourne's employ by the CIA, Bourne appears the same age as he does throughout the rest of the film.

During the car chase in Goa, the tires squeal as they turn corners. This would not be the case on the dirt roads they're driving on.

At the beginning of Russian militia sequence in front of the airport, a radio transmission in Russian is heard. Translation: "This is number 17, I am sorry I could not get there, I got stuck in a traffic jam." Ten minutes later during the cab chase, the exact same message is aired again, unrelated to the chase.

When Kirill is pursuing Bourne and Marie, he can be seen running towards a road and the sound of heavy braking is heard as he approaches the road (presumably intended to be from the red car that passes him). However, it can be seen that this sound has not come from this vehicle as it clearly isn't seen to be braking heavily when Kirill approaches the road.

(approximately at 1:30:15). When one of the Russian police cars (Mercedes Benz) crashes and gets spun around, the driver of the car clearly has a full racing helmet on.

During the fight in the German apartment with Jason's former colleague, at 42:15 a cameraman is reflected in the apartment window on the right-hand side of the screen.

(at around 10 mins) Right at the end of this shot of Bourne running on the sand his left arm moves out the way to reveal a piece of filming equipment left on the sand.

After Bourne leaves Turin towards Berlin, he wakes from a dream, turns off the car and gets out. As you watch Bourne over the roof of the car, a reflection of a camera lens can clearly be seen to the left of Bourne's head.

The Berlin police car's sirens sound isn't the common one used in Germany.

When Bourne tells Nicky to enter the tram it is directed towards "Alexanderplatz". The luminous display inside the tram however reveals "S+U Lichtenberg/DB" as destination - a completely different quarter of Berlin that is not connected to Alexanderplatz via tram.

Some of the Moscow scenes have obviously been shot in Berlin. There are German road signs and advertisements in the background.

After Bourne leaves the Hotel Brecker, he enters the station "Zoologischer Garten", which is actually next to the supposed address of the hotel. After passing through the hall he leaves the building, and a bridge over a river is seen. "Zoologischer Garten" isn't near a river - the rest of the scene is shot at station "Friedrichstrasse", 4 train stops away.

The bank statement in the amount of $760,000 can be seen, where it is depicted like this: "+ 760.000,00", which is the number format that is used in Germany. Since the bank is located in Zurich, Switzerland the format they would have used is "+ 760'000.00".

The CIA team are convinced Bourne is a threat to them, yet after they realize he has been watching them through the window, well within sniper range, they still do not close the blinds.

They just know he saw them, not that he is within rifle-shot or even that he has a rifle. Since nobody is shot yet, they might reason that if he wanted somebody shot, they'd be shot already.

After the car chase in Moscow ends with an accident he just walks away like nothing happened without having a vehicle and Russian cops just stop chasing him all of a sudden. He couldn't just walk away like that while there were still many cars following him and they wouldn't just let him walk away either.

It is unlikely that the elderly woman at Irena Neski's old building in Moscow would so readily give out Irena's new address to a perfect stranger who was not law enforcement.

When Bourne visits Irena Neski, she tells him that she speaks English, even though he had not identified himself as an English speaker, speaking only Russian.

Bourne approaches the front desk at Brecker Hotel and books a room across the hall from the one he actually intends to break into. This blunder caused him to be needlessly identified and dispatched the police to his location.

After Jason jumps onto the boat from the bridge, he grabs his left leg and walks away limping on the left leg. But throughout the remainder of the movie, he limps on his right leg.

When Bourne calls Berlin hotels to find out in which one the female CIA executive is staying, he mispronounces "sprechen". This happens several times. A CIA covert agent trained for work in Europe would not mispronounce such a common word.

When speaking in Russian, both Kirill and Bourne make some language mistakes. Kirill, after the operation in Berlin, says "I'll take a shower" like that: "Ya voz'mu dush", whereas the correct expression is "Ya primu dush". In Moscow shop, Bourne shouts "Vniz!" meaning "Down!", and correct expression for that is "Na pol!", or "On the floor!" And when Bourne tells Irina Neski that he won't hurt her he adds "Ponial?" or "understand?" when he should have used the feminine form "poniala?"

An agent scans the planted fingerprint using an HP iPaq PDA. Ironically, although this model does have a biometric fingerprint scanner, he doesn't use it - instead, he lays the fingerprint across the touch screen.

Bourne should know it's not safe to drink Goa tap water when he's taking a painkiller for his headache. But he drinks bottled water in a later scene.