Goofs for
Under Siege (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The position of the throwing knife in the dartboard
  
  
• Continuity: Supposedly shooting at a submarine only one mile away, the battleship's guns are elevated to about 35 degrees.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the grenade at the door explodes, you can see that the people are mannequins.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When Ryback finds Jordan Tate in the giant cake, he uses his foot to move the cake out of his way. When he does so, a pulley on the floor is clearly visible that is pulling the cake away from him.
  
  
• Continuity: The CIA officer at the HQ uses a phone without any cable plugged in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ryback is fighting Strannix, Ryback receives a cut above his left eyebrow. Shortly thereafter, the cut has disappeared, but returns in a later shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: At many points through the film, Casey's rank is referred to by different titles. He holds the rank of Chief Petty Officer. Early in the film, Ensign Taylor refers to him as "Petty Officer", something an officer would never do, even as a sign of disrespect. Commander Krill refers to him as "Mr. Ryback", a title usually reserved for junior officers. Many junior sailors refer to him by his first name, unlikely, although not absolutely so, considering he comes from the SEAL community. Most everyone should call him "Chief".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Although the Missouri is supposedly at sea, in deep water, the water around the ship is muddy in several shots (revealing the scene was shot on or around the U.S.S. Alabama).
  
  
• Continuity: Ryback throws the knife in the lower half of the wooden board. When he retrieves it to use as a weapon, it's in the center.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cates and Ziggs release Ryback from the meat locker, they slide the sharpening steel the door is jammed with away behind them, several yards from the door. But when Ryback leaves the meat locker and locks the terrorists in, he picks up the steel from right next to the door.
  
  
• Factual errors: Krill says that, without a security clearance, Ryback could only be "a cook or a yeoman". However, a "yeoman" is a clerical rating, and would have to have some sort of clearance. Also, there are probably deck force jobs he could do without a clearance.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the galley firefight, the suppressed machine pistol seems to have a normal muzzle blast sound, but the un-suppressed semi-automatic sounds like a silenced pistol.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening sequence, when sailors below-deck are talking about wearing dress whites, they are wearing the traditional white jumper with neckerchief, which is one version of dress white uniform. However, when we see the ship coming into harbor and during the resident's speech, all of the sailors on deck are wearing "summer" whites, in which a short-sleeved white shirt is worn in place of the jumper.
  
  
• Continuity: When they are talking about sending in a SEAL team the Admiral says they would be flying in on a CH-53 (Sea Stallion). The SEAL team flies in on a CH-46 (Sea Knight).
  
  
• Factual errors: The assault team is in a CH 46 Sea Knight helicopter, not a CH 53 as stated. The Navy doesn't use attack helicopters, let alone the AH 64 Apache as this is used only by the US Army. The Marine Corps which is a part of the Navy would be using AH 1W Cobra attack helicopter but not in the role shown on this movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ryback introduces an MP-5 to Jordan as an 'Assault Rifle'. The MP-5 is actually a sub-machine gun. Also, he refers to it as an MP-5 when it is in fact an MP5-k [kurz, meaning short in German]. When he gives Miss July '89 a gun, he refers to it as an MP5-k even though that one is just an MP-5.
  
  
• Continuity: During the shootout that takes place while Ryback and his companions are freeing the drowning sailors, a terrorist with a thick brown mustache is killed 3 different times. He is the terrorist that his shot and does a backward roll down the stairs.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the movie, Strannix refers to the submarine with the alias "Tweety Bird" and US military forces with "Wile E. Coyote". However, later in the film, "Wile E. Coyote" is used as an alias for the submarine instead.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the CIWS gun shoots down the F/A-18, the ammo belt appears not to move. This is because on the Phalanx CIWS 20mm weapons system, the ammunition is feed from the ammo tank to the chamber in a closed shroud system. Essentially a tube for the ammo to pass through.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the shootout scene where Ryback is locked in the freezer, the two terrorists are supposedly carrying suppressed (silenced) HK MP5ks . However, when fired they are not properly suppressed leading one to believe that the "Silencers" were not functional, or the sound was added later in post.
  
  
• Continuity: When walking with the stripper through the ship, after she complains about having to carry everything, his MP-5 does not have a silencer on it, in the next shot it does.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Ryback is preparing to blow up the helicopter on the deck he grabs a name-brand can of paint thinner. Firstly flammables such as this would not just be lying around on a flight deck area. Secondly any substance like this would have come from the Navy supply system and would have a very generic-looking label.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Rybeck jumps over the fantail of the ship, the letters of the ship's name are white. They should be black.
  
  
• Factual errors: Stranix is on deck when he main guns are fired, due to his proximity to them he who be quite incapable of hearing afterwards, if not deaf.
  
  
• Plot holes: The Iowa-class of battleships of which Missouri is a part has 8 boilers and 4 propellers, which means 4 firerooms and 4 engine rooms - at least 50 engineers to crew them. If the entire Missouri crew was rounded up and put into the forecastle and the Strannix's group (which arrived on a helicopter) had to both secure the ship and offload the missiles, who was left to handle the propulsion of the ship (and were they trained to operate the machinery)?
  
  
• Factual errors: When CDR Krill reads Ryback's personnel file, he states that Ryback was awarded the Purple Heart with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster. The Navy denotes multiple awards of the same medal with service stars, not oak leaf clusters.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Marine Sergeant allows CDR Krill in the Captain's office, the Sergeant's black leather hat band is properly on the brim but when he opens the door it is unexplainedly raised too high.
  
  
• Continuity: When Strannix demands to have some food in the control room, the voice that responds is that of PVT Nash, who is on guard duty in the galley. He could not have been in both places at once.
  
  
• Factual errors: Chief Warrant Officer Flicker wears rank insignia on both collars. Warrant Officers only wear a rank device on the right side. They wear their former enlisted specialty rating device on the left collar.
  
  
• Continuity: Ryback's machine gun changes from one Heckler and Koech model to another and then back again from the moment he meets Jordan until he uses the megaphone to call Admiral Bates.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Cates and Ziggs enter the meat locker with their guns blazing in an effort to kill Ryback. After a few moments, Ziggs stays back and reloads, while Cates continues walking towards the back of the freezer. A careful eye will show that he only has about 5 feet of space in front of him, and it's obvious that there's no one standing there for him to shoot, yet he continues spraying gunfire in all directions without reason.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Casey Ryback is unscrewing the fuse from the shell in the kitchen so that he can use the explosive to make the bomb he attaches to the submarine, the shell is around 10" caliber. The Missouri has 16" turret guns and 5" mounts, nothing between. The shell Ryback uses should not be on the Missouri.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the private informs Ryback there is a fire, Ryback tells him to "take my pies out of the oven." The private is then shown lifting pies out of the oven, but the burners are those of a propane stove. The U.S. Navy does not use propane/natural gas ovens, to carry that gas on a ship in war would be deadly. All cooking in the galley is done on electric appliances.
  
  
• Factual errors: At one point the terrorists use one of the ship's CIWS mounts to destroy an F/A-18 aircraft which is flying alongside the ship to investigate it's silence. However, the CIWS system is entirely automatic and programmed only to engage approaching threats. It would not fire at anything flying parallel to the ship.
  
  
• Continuity: When Capt. Adams is killed his body is left sitting in a chair. When Ryback later finds his body, it's now on the floor.
  
  
• Factual errors: A Harpoon missile is launched from the Missouri to destroy a satellite relay station on a nearby island. The Harpoon is an anti-ship missile and is not designed to destroy land targets. Its warhead is designed to track and destroy naval surface targets by radar. The TV image of the building being destroyed would have been from an air-launched Maverick AGM. A surface ship would most likely use a conventional Tomahawk cruise missile to destroy a fixed land target.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ryback is "locked" in a meat locker, but for years there has been a safety device in these units - an escape device consisting of a rod with a large push button to allow someone inside to open the door, despite whatever device or lock is on the outside.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The late Capt. Adams blinks, when Ryback enters the Quarters, and discovers the Captain's fate.
  
  
• Continuity: The rail system for offloading the tomahawk missiles is visible immediately after the ship is taken, before it could have been built.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Strannix delivers his "We will shoot you and the man next to you" speech, he is wearing a dark sweater with no jacket or sunglasses. In the next scene when he enters the Captain's quarters he is back to wearing his jacket and sunglasses.
  
  
• Plot holes: Ryback whispers the name of the mercenary Cates before killing him and escaping from the galley, but Cates' name is never mentioned where Ryback could have heard it; the only time it is spoken by anyone is by Strannix in the CIC.
  
  

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