Corrected entry: In the scene in the collapsing house in Venice, there is a moment where Bond rips an electricity cable out of a junction box and electrocutes a baddie. However, as Bond is holding the guy's shoulder while he electrocutes him, he should also be electrocuted.
Corrected entry: In the Miami Science Museum, Bond stabs Dimitrios in the side with a knife, killing him instantly. No one would die so quickly from such a wound, especially someone strong enough to hold their own against 007. Even a severe laceration to the liver (the area where Dimitrios is stabbed) would take minutes to bleed out. Listed as trivia only because the Bond mythology is replete with instantaneous deaths; villains don't get to die slowly.
Correction: As you point out, villians die fast and quick deaths and there is nothing rare about it. Deaths in many Hollywood films are altered primarily for ratings. For example someone dying with blood everywhere and having it slow and painful will get a much higher rating than someone being shot with a silencer and almost no blood being spilled.
Corrected entry: The prototype airplane featured in the Miami airport sequence was a cosmetically modified 747. It was originally delivered to British Airways in 1980, and was retired from service in 2005. The unique quad engine arrangement was a physical mock-up; the stretched upper deck was digitized. Following filming, the airplane was dismantled.
Correction: The plane was not taken apart. It can be seen in nearly any recent episode of Top Gear. Its parked behind the race track.
Corrected entry: During the poker games as usual the gamblers say: "check", meaning they pass the opportunity to bet to the next person. However, in the Polish cinema translation the subtitles say "czekam" instead of "sprawdzam", which is the word which should be used. "Czekam" means "I'm waiting" - while it sounds similar to "check", it makes no sense in the context of the game. (01:08:50)
Correction: Not really, "check" just means that you are going to wait and see what the other players do, since if one of them bets, you have to call, raise or fold. "I'm waiting" would be a perfectly valid interpretation.
Corrected entry: When Bond is chasing the bomb maker at the construction site, why did he bother chasing him up to the top of the building? Wouldn't it have been better to just wait on the ground until he came down?
Correction: No. From the top he could quickly exit to any side, given his proven agility and prowess, leaving Bond scrambling to circumvent the entire site and risk losing him completely. Also, Bond needed the message he'd received on the cell phone. Give him a break from the chase and he'd have time to consider deleting the message after committing it to memory.
Corrected entry: Since the casino still had all the winnings of Bond, torturing Bond for the password would not help Le Chiffre get the money. The casino would need to have Bond enter the password and she would need to enter the bank account number. If they were both dead, the casino would not turn over the money to anyone else. Even if Le Chiffre were able to convince the casino that he was entering Bond's password, they would not want the money in the account number that Vespa was supposed to provide, they would want to use their own.
Correction: They get the password out of Bond and use it to release the money into his nominated account. Then Vesper, who you may recall turns out to be on Le Chiffre's side, goes to the bank, withdraws the money from the account in question, which she has access to in her role as a treasury agent tasked with keeping an eye on the money, and gives it to them. Which is exactly what she ultimately does towards the end of the film.
Corrected entry: "M" pronounces Le Chiffre's name differently throughout the movie. When she is briefing Bond on him, she pronounces it "lay-SHIF", which is exactly how other characters in the movie pronounce it from then on on. Yet, later on "M" says "lay-SHIF-ra". It is not likely that one person would have two randomly different pronunciations of the same person's name.
Correction: Hardly "randomly" different. In any case, the fact that Judi Densch pronounces it two different ways kinda throws the idea that it's "not likely" out the window, doesn't it?
Corrected entry: When Bond crashes the Range Rover Sport at the Ocean Club, he goes straight to the security room where surely, the guards might be looking to see just who was driving the car that did all that damage after establishing that no white men park cars there for a living. Further, on later review of the security CD, why was Bond not questioned about the incident and perhaps encouraged to find alternative accommodation? After all, he was staying there in full view of the security staff. We might at least have seen him pull the CD for the moment in question and destroy or delete it to add credibility to his prolonged stay at the club.
Correction: Plenty of possible explanations. (1) Just because we didn't specifically see him destroy the CD, it doesn't automatically follow that he didn't. (2) We don't see what he does when leaving the car; he could simply have covered his face, then moved into a camera blind spot - he's not dressed particularly notably, so it would be hard to distinguish him from the others milling around. (3) Even if they could see what he looked like, the security guards aren't going to be looking among the guests. Think about it, somebody drives into the car park of an exclusive club and damages several expensive cars. They'd be expecting the culprit to run away, not go and check into an expensive beach front villa. (4) If they did identify him, he's just checked into an expensive villa so is clearly a person of considerable means; the management might choose to overlook the incident as a tantrum by a rich person insulted at being mistaken for a servant. (5) If they did identify him and approach him quietly about the matter, he could simply have paid for the damage out of whatever government fund he has available to him. That would be enough to close the incident; the management of the club are hardly going to want to bring criminal charges against a rich guest who would then never stay there again. Any one of these works as an explanation.
Corrected entry: When Bond is trying to climb onto the aviation fuel truck, his trouser leg rides up and you can see the white protective suit the stuntman is wearing under the costume.
Correction: I have looked through a large portion of this sequence and cannot seem to find the moment that you are talking about. There are a few instances where you can see white near his shoes but I took that for socks. Due to the length of the scene it might be worth adding the mistake's timecode or add to the description to point out when this happens so it can be verified.
Corrected entry: When Bond nearly misses running over Vesper on the highway, his car crashes and flips, leaving him injured. Yet, none of the airbags deploy.
Correction: Airbags deploy from a head-on collision. The car rolled and didn't hit anything. I've been a passenger in a car that rolled 3 times down an embankment and the air bags never deployed.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the chase is taking place in the stair well, Bond, Vesper and the villain are fighting over control of a gun when it goes off. In a six foot by six foot stair well, a fired shot would ricochet off the walls several times and make an enormous sound, most likely striking someone and would not just stick in the wall as the sound indicated.
Correction: No, not necessarily. A bullet only ricochets when hitting a solid, hard surface at an oblique angle. If it goes fairly straight into the wall, it would not ricochet. Even a concrete wall, when hit fairly straight on, will absorb a bullet.
Corrected entry: On the train to Montenegro, Bond & Vesper are swaying or rocking with the train, but the wine on the table is not.
Correction: There is only one shot where the wine isn't moving, and that is when Bond and Vesper arn't swaying either, perfectly explainable by a straight and even track. In all other shots where we see wine or water they match the movements of the train.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bond is being tortured by Le Chiffre, Le Chiffre dies and falls to the floor. The close-up shot of his face shows that the scar is on the right side whereas throughout the entire movie, his scarred eye is the left one.
Correction: Upon falling to the floor, Le Chiffre's left eye is not very easy to see as it is obscured by shadow and mostly out of the camera shot. However, his right eye is plainly visible and it is obviously not scarred, which is as it has been throughout the rest of the film.
Corrected entry: Le Chiffre is portrayed to suffer from asthma, and takes several puffs of an inhaler throughout the film, but he uses it improperly every time. He exhales or speaks directly after each use, which would expel the medication, making it useless and ineffective.
Correction: Character mistake if anything. Having asthma myself, but not requiring an inhaler, I wouldn't have a clue how to properly inhale the medication. If the patient is not shown properly how to use it, it's useless. On the other hand, he may forget, or depend on it psychologically rather than physically, meaning he uses the inhaler as a prop more than anything else.
Corrected entry: When Bond sends his resignation letter on the boat in Venice we see on the laptop a previous email spelt "stationary request" which is a misspell; it should be "stationery.".
Correction: Character mistake, and a very common one.
Corrected entry: The supposed police officers from Montenegro wear shirts with the Serbian flag, not the Montenegrin one.
Correction: A similar mistake has already been corrected - Montenegro only gained independence from Serbia in 2006. Hence, when the movie was being filmed, it would have been quite correct for the officers to be wearing the Serbian flag. Not really a mistake.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, M wonders if the discovery of Vesper's motives have now cleared Matthis' name. Matthis was never doubted until LeChiffre himself told Bond that "Matthis is my friend".
Correction: This was well after the case had been resolved - plenty of time for Bond to have reported to M that Mathis was a double agent - he even has Mathis arrested himself. Thus, her wondering if in fact he was innocent is a logical conclusion following the revelation of Vesper's motives.
Corrected entry: On the train on their way to Montenegro, Bond and Vesper discuss Bond's trustworthiness. Vesper points out that the Treasury is trusting him with millions of dollars. HM Treasury accountant speaking to MI6 agent - both English or at least British - would talk about pounds, not dollars.
Correction: No, we would not, and we do not. HM Treasury routinely speaks of transactions in foreign currencies. If Bond was issued cash or negotiable instruments in millions of US Dollars to fund his attempt to bankrupt Chiffre, then we would refer to his being trusted with just that - millions of dollars.
Corrected entry: The license plates of the cars in Montenegro have the old Yugoslav flag on them, instead of the Montenegrin one.
Correction: Yugoslav style licence plates were valid and issued at least until 2008.
Correction: Depending on when this scene was filmed, it may still have been part of Serbia - Montonegro only voted for independence in early 2006.
Corrected entry: On the side of the fuel truck that the terrorist is going to use to blow up the plane there's a label: JP4 .Commercial aircraft don't use JP4, they use JP5 or jet A. JP4 is used in military aircraft.
Correction: The US military stopped using JP4 in 1996. Since commercial jetliners today use a fuel known as Jet A, it doesn't really matter what's painted on the truck as it will contain Jet A, the correct fuel.
Correction: Bond actually holds the baddie from the shoulder, rips the electric cable, and as he's about to electrocute him, he releases his hand from the baddie.