The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Other mistake: During the "escape from East Berlin" sequence, Kuryakin fires a single shot at Gaby's car. Aside from the extremely unlikely possibility of hitting anything like a tire with a handgun from more than half a block away, we see just her left rear tire deflated and shredding off the rim. For the rest of the sequence, sparks fly from both rear wheels as she and Solo avoid capture.

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Other mistake: Near the end of the film, when Illya's superior asks about Dr. Teller's research, a subtitle reads "whoever hold's that disc can control the world." As, in context, it is a plural, not a possessive, "hold's" should be "holds." (01:45:10)

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Other mistake: When Illya is having his briefing on Solo, he's told Solo joined the army at 18 and stayed on in Europe after the war. In character profiles during the final credits Solo's date of birth is given as 1929. That would make him 18 in 1947, after the war had already finished.

Character mistake: When Gaby's car becomes wedged between two buildings, she says, "Good plan. All we have to do is get over two twenty-foot walls and a minefield." While minimal backstory is given, I think it reasonable to assume that she has lived in what was East Germany all her life. It is thus highly unlikely that she would express a measurement in English units (being bilingual doesn't mean you automatically convert measurements). She would have said something like "six meters."

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More mistakes in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Napoleon Solo: He's trying. To stop. The car.
Gaby Teller: We're struggling here. Why don't you take a shot at him?
Napoleon Solo: Somehow, it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do.

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