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Sniper (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After Miller misses El Cirujano and the Indians are fired on, Cacique is squatting down over the one who was killed. He motions for the other two to come down and help him carry the body. It cuts to a shot of Miller and Beckett talking and then back showing Casique squatting down glaring at Miller. You can see at the top of the screen the feet of the two men who moments before had come down from the rocks to move the body, still up on top of the rocks.
  
  
• Continuity: When Beckett is using the sleeping Miller as bait, the knife that is seen bobbing in the water is different than the one Beckett later removes. The one that distracts the enemy sniper is a cheap "survival" knife, while the one Beckett is seen untying is a Marine Corps fighting knife, or "Ka-Bar".
  
  
• Continuity: The camouflage paint on Millers face changes continuously throughout the movie.
  
  

• Errors in geography: When Beckett and Miller are getting on the train, the Queensland Rail symbol, QR, is clearly visible on the side of the carriages.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene, Beckett's spotter places the range as 650 meters. From several POVs it is no more than 150.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Miller prepares to shoot the drug runner on the boat, Beckett tells him to adjust his scope two clicks right. Miller uses the knob for two clicks in elevation.
  
  
• Factual errors: Upon hearing AK-47 fire in the jungle, Miller says that he recognizes the "hammer recoil". No such thing: hammer strike has nothing to do with a weapon's acoustic signature.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Beckette and Miller meet the Indians, Miller does not have his shooing glasses on. When the Indian sneaks up behind Miller and puts the rifle to Millers head, Miller is wearing the glasses.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Beckett is a Master Gunny Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. However, the crew chief of the helicopter that extracts him in the opening scenes calls him "Gunny". The term "Gunny" is used as a familiarity with Gunnery Sergeants only, and a Master Gunnery Sergeant would NEVER be addressed as such. The closest appropriate term for a Master Gunnery Sergeant would be "Master Guns".
  
  
• Continuity: After Beckett's spotter gets shot by an enemy sniper in the beginning, the blood on his chin appears, disappears, and finally appears again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Miller loses his balance, slides down the slope and into the water, the overhead shot clearly shows the rifle dipping into the water. When the shot then moves to being in the water with Miller, he's holding the rifle above his head, keeping it dry and protected.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Miller is firing his weapon at his shadow at the church and the weapon runs out of ammo you can hear numerous clicks of the firing pin as he pulls the trigger. With the model of weapon he carries once it is empty the weapon will not dry fire.
  
  
• Factual errors: Beckett refers to catching steelhead in a river outside Livingston, Montana. Steelhead is a fish found only in rivers that drain into the Pacific Ocean and all rivers surrounding Livingston drain into the Atlantic.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the beginning, as Becket uses hand signals with his spotter, he turns to move away. You can see the spotter wearing his rank on his cover. Marines never wear their rank on their cover, only their collar.
  
  

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