Goofs

At the end of The Bourne Supremacy (2004), when Jason is talking on the phone with Pamela Landy (and subsequently walking through the streets of New York), it is clearly summer time, with the trees in full bloom and people in short-sleeve shirts. During the middle of The Bourne Ultimatum (when this scene is re-shot as a significant part of Ultimatum's plot structure), it is now suddenly winter, with Pamela Landy having to wear a heavy coat, gloves, and a scarf outside, and there is clearly snow on the ground.

David Webb's dog tags say his blood type is O negative, but the Treadstone report that Pam Landy reads clearly shows it is A positive.

In the flashback, Bourne's final test is to execute an anonymous captive. He uses the Mozambique technique (body armor drill, to those in law enforcement)- two shots to the body, one to the head. However, when the captive's hood is removed, there is no evidence of the head shot.

When Jason Bourne hot-wires the Audi on the parking garage rooftop, he puts it in drive and slams into a parked SUV pushing it forward. He then puts it in reverse to escape other agents. As the camera shows the full screen shot of the Audi, the front of the car is completely undamaged - like new.

In the last and most spectacular window-to-window jump scene in Tangier, Bourne is holding a gun in his right hand when he jumps off. The immediately following in-air shot from below shows him with the gun in the right hand still, but the next in-air shot from behind shows him with no gun in the right hand while his left hand is covered by his body. When Bourne crash-lands, neither his hand is holding the gun any more, but then he stands up to fight Desh, and the gun suddenly returns into his right hand. This is explained on the extras on the DVD. The shot of the jump was flipped vertically by the editing team.

When Bourne follows Desh on the scooters in Tangier, Desh receives a phone call. He handles the cell phone with his right hand which controls the throttle on the scooter. By taking his right hand off the throttle, the scooter would suddenly have slowed down.

Bourne hotwires an Audi A6 model C5. This model comes standard with immobilizer and cannot be hotwired that easily.

When Bourne types the bank name in the google-bar, the CAPS-lock function of the computer is still on, but lowercase letters appear on the screen

Bourne hot-wires the car which he later drives off the roof - this would be impossible without first using equipment to bypass the manufacturer security, as the vehicle's fuel pump would be disabled.

Moments after the final car crash scene, when Jason points his gun at Paz (trapped in the VW Touareg), Paz's airbag in the VW hasn't deployed.

When Bourne phones Pamela Landy in her office and Vosen's team is listening in, Landy tells Bourne a birth date, which is really code for his target address. Bourne then uses Landy to lure Vosen and his team out of the building, giving Bourne a chance to break in and steal files. Bourne calls Vosen to tell him what he did. Wills, Vosen's assistant, calls him while looking a Bourne's personal file and notices the birth date Landy gave Bourne was incorrect. Wills tells Vosen the same fake birth date they both heard in the original live call. Vosen immediately recognizes it as code for the training facility address, where Bourne is headed, yet he fails to do so earlier. Probably a screenwriting gimmick to give Bourne a way of stealing the files.

Vosen had no reason to suspect it was code until after Wills saw Bourne's real birthday. He thought that 4/15/71 was actually Bourne's birthday, so he didn't give it a second thought.

When running around a busy corner in the streets of Tangier, a bystander can be seen taking a photo of Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) with his cell phone.

(at around 36 mins) Bourne looks at the monitor of the security camera that displays a car approaching the compound. The camera seems to follow the car, and even zoom in and out to maintain a good composition - not the sort of shot expected expected from a security camera.

While trying to save Nicky in Tangiers, Bourne is shown jumping from the balcony of one building through an adjacent window of another while that window closed. Not only does Bourne not cover his eyes and face (which would have been shredded by the impact) he doesn't clench his fists or pull in his arms which would have been severely injured and lacerated by the shattering glass. Additionally, Bourne did not launch himself with enough momentum to have broken the window. At best he would have been hung up in the window's damaged frame and had to extract himself from the wreckage.

The Chevrolet Impala police car driven by Jason Bourne executes sudden slides and, on several occasions, is shown to "lock" the front or rear brakes and wheels. All Impala police vehicles are equipped with anti-lock brakes, which would make this behavior impossible.

At Waterloo Station, as Bourne is preparing to drop the phone into the Reporter's pocket, two extras are walking towards the camera - a man with a beret (on the right) and a woman with a white knit hat (on the left). In the next shot of the reporter, the same two extras walk around the corner, except they've switched sides

As Jason looks over the paper while riding the train near the beginning of the movie, we see the story he is reading. It reads, in part, "His code name was Jason Bourne, but he had many identities, each one seemingly more deadly then the next." This is a case of then/than confusion... it should read "than the next". It should however be noted that the newspaper in question, "The Guardian", used to be notorious in the UK (in the days of manual typesetting) for its spelling mistakes, leading to its nickname of "The Grauniad". It is just conceivable that this is a nod to this reputation.

When Landy and Bourne enter the 415 E. 71st St. facility, it is clearly daylight, not even dusk. By the time Bourne jumps into the river, it is completely dark. The action in the building was relatively short, not several hours.

In flashbacks of events that presumably happened before The Bourne Identity regarding Bourne's introduction into the CIA and the abuse that entailed, actor Matt Damon appears older as he does in the Bourne Ultimatum.

In London we clearly see a car with a license plate beginning LT56 indicating that the vehicle was first registered between September 2006 and February 2007 - after the time in which the film is supposed to take place.

In the opening scene when Bourne evades Russian police, the subtitles indicate that Bourne says in Russian, "My argument is not with you." In reality, he says, "I don't want to kill you."

The CIA Chryslers (300M) and Bourne's Chevrolet Impala sounded like they had V8 engines. Actually the 300M and that generation of Impala were never released with a V8 engine.

During the fight scene with Desh, after Nicky Parsons is struck and falls back, a crew member's foot is seen in the frame as Desh falls back after being hit by Jason Bourne.

(At 00:12.35) There is an overhead shot of a Eurostar train. The shadow of the helicopter passes over the left of the picture.

When the Spanish police stop the American operatives in the street as Jason and Nicky leave the Madrid training facility, the police are heard yelling "Hande Hoch" ("hands up") in German, not in Spanish or English.

In the first scene the location is identified as "Moscow, Russia" and Jason Bourne is chased over a bridge crossing railway tracks and into a station identified as "Kievsky Station". The station is in fact Berlin-Lichtenberg.

At Waterloo Station in London, Bourne instructs Simon Ross to go to the bus stop and stand near the man with the hooded top. The approaching bus is a No. 43 that runs from Friern Barnet to London Bridge. This bus goes nowhere near Waterloo Station.

The Sydney address for Sewell & Marbury is given as 18077 Market Street, Sydney 20031, New South Wales. Tel: 582 9232 2360. Australian street numbers start at 1 and go as high as the length of the street - the highest number in Market Street is 120. Australian post codes are 4 digits - the correct post code is 2000, or 2001 for a general post office address. Australian phone area codes are two digits - the correct area code within the country is 02. The country phone code for Australia is 61 - if the phone number is supposed to include the country code, then it should be 612. However the phone number is in the correct format for Sydney's CBD.

When Bourne goes through the remains of Daniel's briefcase in the morgue, he seizes upon a piece of a document cover with the address, "Central Intelligence Agency, 105 40th Street, New York, NY ..." Numbered street addresses in Manhattan must specify either East or West # Street, to avoid confusion.

Bourne confronts Nicky Parsons in the Madrid safe house, and she tells him she was assigned there after Berlin. The events in The Bourne Ultimatum are supposed to be contiguous with those in the Bourne Supremacy. In Supremacy, Ward Abbott picked up Parsons in Amsterdam and took her to Berlin to aid in hunting Bourne. A) Given the timeline, Parsons would only have been in Madrid for a few days, and B) there was no reason to change her duty station from Amsterdam when she committed no operational errors in Berlin.

When Jason Bourne and Dr. Hirsch finally meet at the training facility, Jason Bourne says he's been running for three years. Yet at the beginning of The Bourne Supremacy, it's made clear that Jason Bourne has had amnesia for almost two years. The Bourne Supremacy takes place over a two week period whilst the main plot of The Bourne Ultimatum is six weeks after the events of The Bourne Supremacy leaving an entire year unexplained.

In the previous film when Bourne questions Nicky about his first operation she tells him he's never been to Berlin, it's not in the file, but when Pam Landy checks his file the first entry is Bourne's hit on Neskey in Berlin.

Character "Neal Daniels" has his first name spelled both accepted ways: Neal and Neil. In the scenes where he's being tracked on the computer it's Neal; later, while Pam flips through some CIA papers, it's Neil.

Most fax machines scan before sending. All Vosen has to do is press cancel and the fax would not be sent. In fact, as he enters the room the fax can be heard to make the first beep of the sending tone, indicating that it's only just beginning to try and send the fax. However, being a high-up member of management in his 50s or so, it is entirely possible that Vosen has no idea how to work a fax machine and so might think it had already sent. Also, this model of fax machine scans with the pages facing down, so he would not see what was scanned until the pages came out. Since they were put in face-up Landy would be scanning blank paper (if there was nothing on the back).

Despite the CIA having both his latest photos and advanced facial recognition software, Jason Bourne never attempts to disguise his features, in any manner, at any point during his pursuit. In fact, Bourne seemingly chooses the most public of places to meet and does nothing to prevent himself from even being recognized by possible field agents in the crowds that he encounters.

Nicky is willing to ruin her life for helping Jason supposedly because they had a close if not intimate relationship before his amnesia. However in Supremacy she had no emotional reaction whatsoever to sending kill orders on Jason and his 'new' girlfriend Marie, was adamant at the Berlin meeting the objective should be "killing Bourne" , and even when terrified he was going to kill her inexplicably failed to mention it.