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Samuel L. Jackson and Onni Tommila in Big Game (2014)

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Big Game

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Continuity

The small number of arrows in Oskari's quiver changes constantly.
When the President is eating a sausage, from scene to scene, it has both ends bitten and/or only one bitten.

He's the President. He can eat his sausages any way he likes.
When the boy shakes hands with his father, from one camera angle he uses his right hand but when the angle changes they shake left hands.
Bill and Oskari find Air Force One nose down in a lake. Only the tail fin is visible above the surface. Later, Hazar blows a hole through the roof of the plane which is above water.

Factual errors

The President of the United States is issued a diplomatic passport for traveling, not a standard citizens passport. "Diplomatic Passport" is clearly written on the cover of the President's actual passport. Also, passports do not list job titles or positions, so the President's passport would not say "President of the United States" on the personal identification page.
The jettisoned pod on chutes would not have same forward momentum to crash anywhere near the partial airliner, which was traveling much faster.

It wasn't anywhere near. They had to travel all day on the ATV and then a considerable distance dangling from the helicopter.
There is no reason for the oxygen masks to be deployed during the descent. Oxygen masks deploy automatically only in the event of a loss of cabin pressure, and there is nothing to suggest anything like that has happened. Passenger oxygen is only required if the cabin altitude rises above 14,000 feet.
When Oskari and President Moore are talking via the "tin can telephone", the string is often loose, which would make communication impossible.

The string was only loose at the end of the conversation when Oskari drops his end. Also, they were close enough to hear each other anyway.
When agent "Echo-Mike" Morris skydives out of AF1, he only straps on the shoulder straps, the way it is done with a regular backpack. It seems as though he has two front straps that go across the upper part of the body and keep the shoulder straps in place. Anyway, without firmly tightened - or at least strapped on - leg straps, the man would most likely have slipped out of the rig upon the opening of the main canopy and plunged to his death, since deploying a chute means breaking the free fall (aprox. 200 km/h) down to a velocity of 30 km/h. That's like crashing a Porsche into a tree at full speed and expecting to survive by simply keeping your arms stiff on the wheel.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Air Force One does not have an escape pod.
Subtitles state that the Pentagon is located in Washington, D.C. Actually, it is in Arlington, VA, but is so linked to Washington's political and economic culture and so close physically that Pentagon employees generally think of themselves as Washingtonian rather than Virginian.
The stars at night are completely unrealistic and look nothing like a Nordic night sky whatsoever.

Au contraire. They look like actual cinematography. The early night sky, facing east, as shown by the tracks of the stars caused by the turning of the Earth, and the rising Milky Way are real and are similar in all northerly locations.

Revealing mistakes

The end scene, where all pictures are shown on the wall, a particular hunter (holding two animals, bow crossed on the back) is shown several times. Sometimes back-to-front, sometimes in color and black-and-white.
When the escape pod is dropped out of Air Force One, two parachutes instantly deploy without the aid of any pilot or drogue chutes. Also, the aircraft's speed (near 250 knots at this point with no flaps or gear down), would likely damage the parachutes in this type of instantaneous, unregulated deployment.
When Oskari and the President are inside the freezer, crashing down the hills and through the woods, they are bounced around and get bruised, but none of the arrows that are sticking out of Oskari's quiver get damaged.
Whenever Oskari bends over and you can see the kitchen sponge they inserted in his quiver to keep the shape and hold the arrows in place.

All the bow hunters of his community do the same thing to keep their arrows from rattling around.
Cut tree trunks that continuously all burn from the top of the cut off without either burning out or catching other trees on fire.

Anachronisms

This was supposed to be Oskari's first solo big game hunt. Oskari's arrows were equipped with target points not hunting points. Also the two times he used it, obviously showed the bow had no penetrating power. Assuming his father had taught him basic hunting skills Oskari had to know he was not equipped to hunt big game.

Errors in geography

When above Lapland, the pilot announces that they're going to prepare for landing, but the capital of Finland, Helsinki, where they are traveling to is actually 1000 kilometres away from Lapland.
The GPS coordinates given for the location of Air Force One is not a lake nor in Northern Finland. The location is Pohjoisväylä road, just north of Pajalantie road in the city of Järvenpää in Southern Finland, quite close to Helsinki.
Lapland does not have mountains. (Filming in the Alps was of course a deliberate artistic decision by the Finnish film maker.)
When the transponder is found near a farmhouse, the caption reads "somewhere in Norway." It is actually in Finland.

Plot holes

There is no sign of Finnish search and rescue, police, or armed forces to search for the planes that came down in the north of Finland.
The escape pod transponder was separated from the escape pod, yet Hazar and Morris were able to find the escape pod.
There would be no reason to eject the President out of Air Force One in an escape pod (if one existed, which it doesn't), simply because the aircraft had been targeted by a laser. The risk to the President would be far greater in an ejection than in waiting to see whether the aircraft was actually under attack, especially since you would be sending the President out unprotected right where the attackers were located.

Character error

Hazar (Mehmet Kurtulus) informs the Safari Pilot (Rauno Juvonen) that he has a targeting system for a "shoulder-mounted, Chinese FN-6 surface-to-air missile," but the box reveals a German Panzerfaust 3, an unguided anti-tank rocket launcher.
Morris asks the aircraft commander (The Captain) of Air Force One what the ETA is, to which the Captain says "45 miles." An ETA is a time (estimated time of arrival), while 45 miles is a distance,
When Morris ditches his Secret Service radio, he says "over and out". No experienced agent would ever say that as they are contradictory terms ('over' expects a reply, 'out' doesn't).

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