Corrected entry: Left Ear lost the hearing in his right ear during his childhood, but he wears an earplug for cellphone communication on that same ear.
Corrected entry: When the white Mini jumps into the subway, it nicks the train and lands. A few seconds later Napster stops the train perfectly in front of the opening so the motorcycle can't get in. Seeing the speed that the train was going and how long it took Napster to react, the front of the train should have been much farther through the tunnel.
Corrected entry: The dam they crash the van into to escape being shot to bits by Steve is hundreds of feet tall on the dry side - but the van settles to the bottom of the lake about twenty feet below the surface, up against the dam wall.
Correction: There is a dam planned on the river going through my town. It has a waterfall that will be blocked if the dam goes through. If this occurs, there will be a drop of about 100 feet on the dry side, and only about 12 feet on the river side. This is because the dam will be built on the cliff that the waterfall comes down. The dam in the movie is in the mountains, and it is possible that the dam was built with a similar plan.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Mark Wahlberg is shooting hoops after the Charlize Theron and Ed Norton date, Mark has the ball in his right hand, then Napster throws him another ball and the ball that was in his right hand disappears. (01:17:55)
Correction: Mark does have the ball in his hands, but he throws it away to the hoop, next shot he actually asks the Napster to throw the ball back to him and then he throws it away to the hoop before the scene ends.
Corrected entry: In a deleted scene entitled "Left Ear gets stuck in traffic", you can see the steel tow rope wire attached to the car, obviously making it jerk about.
Correction: Deleted scenes are often presented 'as filmed' - i.e. without special effects and so on. Had the scene made it into the film, the wire would have been digitally removed, but there would be no point in spending money on a scene that wasn't to be included in the final version of the film. As such, this cannot be considered a mistake.
Corrected entry: When Steve goes to the diamond store to trade his gold for money for the second time in the movie, he knocks on the garage door. As the camera zooms out of his face, you can see a person moving in the background. He is hiding behind a barrel and carrying a camera. He is really easy to spot, as lots of movement is present.
Correction: The man in the background is a homeless person, and it is not a camera that he is holding, it is a beer bottle.
Corrected entry: After dropping the armored car containing the gold through the street, they discover that the safe has been switched to a model with a glass part that, if broken, with cause steel rods to spring into place, locking the safe closed. They all worry about that, but they shouldn't. After all, it didn't break when dropped forty feet in the armored car, as you can tell when they actually open the safe.
Correction: Yes, it didnt' break, however, maybe they were just lucky in that department. Also, the drop may have made it more brittle which is why it "cracked" when Stella was drilling it. I have dropped a pane of glass that didn't break, but then as soon as I tried to fit it into something, it cracked.
Corrected entry: When they drive the Minis out of the tunnel, the backs of them go up, making the cars drive on their front wheels. However, there are 800 kilograms of gold in the back of each car. Therefore, the backs of the Minis would not go up. In fact, they would be so heavy that they couldn't drive very fast at all.
Correction: Charlie hired Wrench to fix that problem. He tells Wrench that the three Minis need to carry up to 2700 pounds of cargo with enough suspension and horsepower to outrun anything chasing them (in this case, Steve). Wrench was able to remove the smog controls and 200 pounds of body fat, while retaining everything else.
Corrected entry: When in the subway, the cars speed up to be able to get on to the tracks in front of the train. The cars come onto the platform straight alongside the subway train. The cars are going at, say, 40 MPH (probable), and the "entering speed" of a subway train (at a station) is not more than 45 MPH. The train also slows down to stop before the platform ends. The subway's speed is also decreasing all the time (as it brakes to stop), and the drivers of the cars are most probably trying to increase their speed. The cars could outrun the train and make it on to the tracks with a quite large margin. (01:27:00)
Correction: The train might not have been stopping at that station. Isn't that why Napster stopped it for them?
Corrected entry: After the armoured truck falls through the pavement down to the subway tunnel, the mini coopers are covered in dirt and dust from the explosion. Then in the chase scene to Union Station they are all very clean again. (01:29:45 - 01:35:30)
Correction: After going through the tunnel, the Minis land in plenty of water to wash them off.
Corrected entry: There is a scene where the gang is in the warehouse and everyone is just working while Wrench fixes the minis. Stella is wearing a white tank with her hair down. After he's finished, he shows Charlie and they go for a drive. Stella is now wearing a dark jacket and her hair is up. Then it goes to Steve's scene where he kills Yevhen and stuff. Then it's back to the gang in the warehouse and Stella (and the rest of the gang) are back in their original clothes, Stella in the white tank with her hair down. It's obvious that the garage scene was filmed in one go and split, despite a couple of scenes between.
Correction: It is possible that Stella put on a jacket and pulled up her hair to go for a drive.
Corrected entry: As an amateur radio operator I know that it's nearly impossible to have a clear radio reception under water and underground - at least with such small portable gear that the gang wears and uses to communicate all the time.
Correction: I teach scuba diving and have done many underwater audio/technology dives and can easily hear people especially in full face masks (they look like agar masks, could be mistaken though). These types of masks have a built in communicator that is obviously designed for underwater. You can assume that they are using these communicators and not their earpieces.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Stella and Steve go on the date, the water/wine bottle on the table is about half full. They talk for a few minutes and Steve discovers that Stella is John's daughter. She pushes the bottle over (presumably as a sign to the other guys) and the bottle is now empty.
Correction: The water bottle is actually about 25% full. As Stella is saying the line about the devil inside, you hear her pouring water into her glass (there is no other bottle on the table so it has to be the bottle of water). When she knocks over the bottle (as a sign), you can see some of the water left in the bottle slosh around inside.
Corrected entry: When the gang cuts off Steve's cable, he calls the cable company and is told that someone will be available later in the week between 10 and 3. The gang then calls him back to let him know that someone will be there that day. Wouldn't his suspicions be raised just a little when the real cable repairman comes? Nobody called to cancel the original service request. Rather sloppy for a group of professional thieves, I'd say.
Correction: I am sure that the gang would have simply called the cable repair company and cancelled the real repair order - no reason to show that in the film.
Corrected entry: The first shot of the scene in the mountains after they've stolen the gold you can see a sign that says 'Austria' to mention that they are in that country. As they speak German in Austria the sign would rather be 'Österreich'.
Correction: But they are in Italy, and in Italy, Austria (Österreich) is also called: Austria, so the sign is correct, because it is written in Italian.
Corrected entry: In an early scene in the movie when Mark Wahlberg is commenting on the gang with Charlize Theron, he mentions that Left Ear got his namesake from when he had an accident and lost hearing in his right ear, but in a later scene when Left Ear is in the Mini Cooper with Handsome Rob, Left Ear's communication receiver is hooked on his right ear, the deaf one.
Correction: I watched this again last night, and the only thing I ever saw in his right ear was his hearing aid.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Donald Sutherland calls his daughter, she picks up a cell phone to answer and he is on a cell phone as well. When he hangs up, you hear a dial tone. There are no dial tones for cell phones.
Correction: She doesn't pick up a cell phone, it's a cordless.
Corrected entry: When everyone is celebrating the completion of the 1st heist and Donald Sutherland's character tells Walberg's character that he loves him (like a son) Walberg's character turns to him and says, "I love you Charlie". Charlie is Walberg's character, not Sutherland's. He should have said, "I love you John".
Correction: He does say "John".
Corrected entry: When actually opening the safe door underwater, it would be near impossible because of the immense water pressure that is pushing against the door (towards the inside of the safe).
Correction: When the safe is opened, only a few bubbles of air escape, which shows that the safe is full of water, meaning that the pressure on each side of the safe door would be roughly equal. Therefore the door could be easily opened. Had the safe been water-tight and full of air, then it wouldn't have been able to be opened.
Corrected entry: When the Mini Coopers leave the sewer pipe, the lead car jumps out of the pipe and lands on its nose and then carries on undamaged. Mini Coopers have flimsy thin plastic front bumpers and would shatter in that kind of impact.
Correction: That's because Wrench fixed up the cars to take that kind of damage.
Correction: He wears the earpiece in his left ear, as he should. Because it's kind of like looking into a mirror, it only looks like the earpiece is in his right ear.
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