Corrected entry: When the "kidnapped" inspector and Frank are at the marina, Frank's boat's name is Cassis. In the next scene its name is Manon. (01:02:10 - 01:02:40)
Corrected entry: Tarconi says there were 5000 spent shell casings around Frank's house. But we only see three guys, which are probably all of them, seeing how all of the bullets are coming from the same direction. All three of them use weapons with standard 30-round magazines, and are only seen reloading once. Even if you give the film a lot of wiggle room and say they actually reloaded 10 times, that's still not enough. They would need to have reloaded over 50 times - not to mention they would stand there firing guns for over ten minutes.
Correction: Inspector Tarconi actually states that there are "five dozen spent rounds...". His thick accent certainly doesn't make the confusion a hard one to make.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the transporter gets the girl out of his car to deliver her to wall street, you can see that the girl has gotten out of the bag and is hiding in the trunk (as the bag comes out, you can see that she is in the trunk still. She sort of curls up to hide from view). The car is later blown up, and the girl is magically back in the house as if she had never escaped from the bag in the first place.
Correction: It wasn't the girl in the car. It was the 2 cops who tried to save the girl after her escape attempt. This is evident by 1) The yellow outfits the person in the trunk was wearing (just like the 2 guys who tried to save her). 2) When the cop was asking Frank about his blown up car, he mentions the bodies of the 2 cops that were found in the trunk.
Corrected entry: When Martin launches his car onto a car transport truck a wheel comes off his car, only to be back in perfect condition shortly afterward.
Correction: At no point does a wheel come off the BMW during this sequence.
Corrected entry: After Frank has escaped from the jail with the inspector, he gets on the boat. While in the jail (and even before that) Frank has been wearing a blue shirt with khaki pants. Once on the boat, we see Frank change his shirt, but he does not change his pants which are now black instead of khaki.
Correction: Yes, we see Frank pull the boat away from the busy marina wearing the blue polo and khaki pants. At the start of the next shot, however, the boat is already in open water. So there has been more than an ample time lapse for Frank to have already changed into the dark pants, offscreen, and then onscreen continues to change his shirt as well.
Corrected entry: In the first chase scene, just before Frank launches the BMW off of the narrow bridge, there's a shot of his feet at the pedals showing him mashing the gas pedal while we hear the engine revving and tires squealing. Shouldn't he have had the gas to the floorboard already? How have the tires been spinning up until then?
Correction: On a car with a lot of torque, such as his performance enhanced BMW, it's not necessary to have your foot to the floorboard to get the tires to spin. In the past I had a car that could spin its' wheels at 1000 RPM with my foot pressing the brake, when normal idle speed was 750 RPM.
Corrected entry: During the last transporting scene the semi/eighteen-wheeler with the immigrants inside is shown vigorously swerving from side to side. Shortly thereafter, they open the crate and see that the immigrants are all okay and not injured. Wouldn't, logically, at least some of these people be knocked down and hurt, since they would have been tossed around in the steel cart? (01:19:50 - 01:26:50)
Correction: If you watch as the people get out of the container, a few of them collapse onto the floor. This is most obvious if you look to the right of the truck. They may not be as injured as you would expect, but it is an attempt to at least acknowledge they may be injured.
Correction: The policeman then throws one of the bags to the side and hits the injured man who has been placed on the ground with it and walks away.
Corrected entry: Shortly after the bad guys blow up Frank Martin's house, Martin and the girl go to the Wall Street's office to confront him. Frank disarms Wall Street, taking a 1911 .45. Frank makes Wall Street sit at his desk and covers him with the gun. To emphasize a point, Martin cocks the hammer with his thumb. After some discussion, Martin hands the pistol to the girl to cover Wall Street while he searches the office. After a bit the girl gets angry and again cocks the hammer. Anyway, if Frank Martin, obviously a weapons expert, had taken a .45 auto off someone with the intention of possibly using it, he surely would have cycled back the slide to make sure there was a round in the chamber. (00:56:45)
Correction: At this point in the movie, Frank has almost been killed twice, and his favourite car and house have been destroyed. When he visits Wall Street, the last thing on his mind would be to see if there is a bullet in the chamber. More importantly, this also explains why Wall Street was so relaxed, even though he had a gun pointed at him.
Corrected entry: When Frank and Lai are holding Wall Street at gunpoint in his office, Wall Street calls Frank by his first name, even though Frank never told him. (rule 2: no names) (00:57:50)
Correction: Seeing as Wall Street was able to send thugs to Frank's house and blow it to Kingdom Come, I think it's safe to say that he did a little research and now knows his name.
Corrected entry: When Frank and the Wall Street guy are fighting in the lorry at the end, Frank is steering the lorry with both of his feet. If he has both of his feet on the steering wheel, then how is he pressing the accelerator? (01:20:50)
Correction: It is possible that the truck had cruise control that allows it to continue at the set speed without anyone pressing the accelerator.
Corrected entry: After the lead bank robber shoots his fourth partner, blood is splattered on the rear window, but it isn't shattered. How could the blood come out, but the bullet stay in? (00:04:40)
Correction: It is more than possible for the bullet to have collided with the back of the skull with enough force to spray blood outward, but be deflected either (a) back inside, or (b) outward on a different trajectory that doesn't hit the window.
Corrected entry: In the oil fight scene after Frank takes the pedals off the bike, he throws the bike at the guys he is fighting in the oil. When Frank fights them, what happens to the bike? It disappears.
Correction: No, it doesn't. When Frank steps into the oil on the pedals, it can be seen lying on the far side, beyond a thug. In the following shot with Frank in the middle of the circle, the bike is in the foreground.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Frank is watching the news, you can see the AV1 input display on the TV; meaning he is watching a video, NOT the news.
Correction: Just because it says AV1 doesn't mean he is watching a video. It could very well be that the video feed is coming from a VCR, but it could be because his cable box or satellite box is hooked up to the VCR. Also, the cable or satellite could be hooked to the AV1 inputs, so it would be normal that AV1 appears on the TV.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Frank and Lai are getting out of the water she calls him Frank. He never told her his name, so how did she know what it was?
Correction: Remember that when Lai gets up to explore Frank's house she stumbles upon his old military files, in it included his dogtags which she read as well as photos and the medal.
Corrected entry: Jason Statham gets on a boat named 'Cassis', half way across the water he takes his shirt off on a boat named 'Manon', a later shot of the same scene he still has his shirt off and the boat is named 'Cassis' again.
Correction: In France we have the name of the boat which is this case is "Manon" (a well known girl's name in south of France) and the name of the harbor in which the boas is registered : "Cassis" (it's a town near Marseille). Both are visible.
Corrected entry: The bad guys trap Frank by dropping oil onto the water he is under and lighting it on fire by shooting it. Just moments earlier, before he jumped into the water, they were shooting at him and hitting the oil on the solid concrete ground around him. Yet it didn't catch on fire then, so it makes no sense that it would catch on fire on the water.
Correction: The type of liquid which is thrown in the water is never shown. All we see is a "flammable-sign" on the side of the barrel, so it can be anything, and not necessarily the same liquid Frank poured all over the floor moments earlier.
Correction: My guess is the stuff poured on the ground was very crude oil and the stuff in the barrel was refined.
Corrected entry: Frank seems to have very clean hands after changing the tire of his BMW. When I've changed a tire before my hands are covered in tire grease and dirt yet his hands show no filth at all.
Correction: From someone who changes tires regularly, it can be done, and it is much easier on a car as spotless as this one.
Corrected entry: When Frank is paragliding after the convoy (and overhauling it rapidly) there is a realism conflict. The posted speed limit over most of Europe is at least 110 km/h. To drive too much below that is illegal. However, the top speed of a paraglider is 60-65 km/h, and the stall speed is about 20 km/h. And yet there was no speed difference between him and the truck when he landed (stalling the paraglider to do so). He should not have been able to catch up to the convoy so quickly, and should certainly not have been able to land with so little problem.
Correction: It's illegal to drive too much over the speed limit as well. Just because something is illegal does not mean people don't do it. Truck speeds are usually different, besides which, it takes very little of a grade to slow a truck down. A grade on a road is not usually visible from the air if it is slight, and as such, the truck going slower than the posted speed limit is very realistic, and most probable. The stall speed of any aircraft is affected by wind. If there is a tail wind, the stall speed will be much higher than 20 kmh. There are too many variables to categorically state it is unrealistic. Also, Frank was a trained Special Forces-type officer, and would likely not have a problem landing as much as a recreational paraglider.
There were supposedly 400 people split between 2 trucks. The average weight of a person of Chinese descent is between 171lbs and 131lbs. And we know at least some of the hostages were children. Estimating 200 people at a generous weight of 150lbs per individual, the total weight would only be 30,000lbs. A semi is more than capable of maintaining speed on a grade with a load of that size. My question is what happened to the second truck? Did we forget about that one?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Frank is in the shop, he takes a bottle of juice to give to Lai who is still in the trunk but he walks out of the shop without paying for it or for the food he ate.
Correction: This is incorrect. Frank is holding the water bottle in his right hand and looking at his car. His left hand is rooting around in his jacket pocket. He then produces some paper money and puts it on the table then immediately selects a red straw and walks to the fridge to pick up the juice.
Corrected entry: Why would any of the information on the French inspector's computer be in English?
Correction: In actuality, the computer the detective uses probably is in French, but is shown in English so the audience will be able to understand. Similar to how in many films, foreign characters will speak English to one another. They aren't really supposed to be speaking English, they are simply shown speaking English to avoid the over-usage of subtitles and any confusion from the audience.
Correction: The town name Cassis is written on the front starboard side of all boats in the port. The boat name Manon is on the aft starboard side, and on the front port side.