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Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

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• Continuity: In the final scene at the café, a fat guy is sipping his milkshake having more than half of his glass empty. When Smith, angered by a row of irritants, starts shooting, a bullet breaks a fat guy's glass, which is surprisingly full. Also the type of glass is changed: the full glass, which exploded was not knurled, but smooth from the outside.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Mr. Smith jumps off the bridge, he shoots a few holes in the top window of the car, but as you can see, in the scene where he actually jumps through the window, there are no bullet holes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Smith first faces the "Lone Man" in the toilet shootout scene, Lone Man checks his gun, enters, lets off 4 rounds and reloads clearly showing that his gun holds six bullets. Smith then attacks him and in the ensuing fight the revolver fires eight times... well guess that explains what happened to the first two missing bullets?
  
  

• Continuity: The hammer on Smith's Sig-Sauer is up and down through out the scene in which he holds Senator Rutledge hostage on the plane.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Various factors place this film in the U.S. (a candidate for President, the "Made in the USA" flags on the Hammerson gun boxes), but various other factors make it clear this was actually shot in Toronto (a prominent Yonge Street address, recognizable landmarks in long shots like the CN Tower and Skydome).
  
  
• Continuity: In the shootout at Smith's house, the lighting changes dramatically from pitch black outside, to broad daylight.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Smith is busy shooting the bad guys in the warehouse, the last two shots he attempts to fire are met with the sound of dry-firing - a hammer falling on an empty breech. It is then shown to the audience that the slide is locked back, which occurs when the weapon runs out of bullets. In this condition the hammer cannot move, and the gun would not make any sound whatsoever if the trigger was pulled.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Mr. Smith and Donna bring baby food for the newborn during the days that he is hidden in the tank. A newborn baby does not eat solid food, ever, only breast milk or formula.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the car scene where Smith shoots out the windshield of his car and the van full of assassins the glass breaks into a few large pieces which easily fall out of his way. Car (and van) windshields are made out of two pieces of glass with a sheet of polymer or laminate between. This means that when broken (even if shot) the windshield will break into many small pieces, but these pieces will be held in position by the laminate. The glass used in the two vehicles for this scene are obviously not 'real' windshields.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mr. Smith's spectacular slide (on his back) through the used motor oil during the warehouse shootout, his clothes are pristine as soon as he is on his feet again.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Smith and Hertz point firearms at each other, Smith tells Hertz his Desert Eagle pistol is a six shooter. However, a .357 mag DE holds 9 rounds, the .44 mag holds 8 rounds and the .50 AE hold seven rounds. This would not include an additional round that could be chambered in addition to a fully loaded magazine.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hertz tells Smith he is out of ammo because he fired 10 shots with the Glock 19. Glock 19s can hold 15 rounds+1 in the chamber. The movie was probably written to say 10 because only 10 round magazines are legal in California.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: In the final fight scene with Mr. Hertz, Mr. Smith shoots him by holding bullets between his fingers and sticking his hand in the fireplace. This would not work as depicted. When the powder in the cartridge ignites, the expanding gases from the combustion would follow the path of least resistance and the lighter brass casing of the cartridge would be propelled back into the fireplace. There would be relatively little velocity imparted to the actual bullets themselves.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: In the final fight scene with Mr. Hertz, Mr. Smith shoots him by holding bullets between his finger, and hold them before the fireplace. He holds 4 bullets, but you hear 8 shots fired.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: The Lone Man uses a revolver, but after he's chopped up in the helicopter blades his severed hand is holding a pistol.
  
  

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