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| Year: | 2008 |
| Rating: | 6.6(52196) |
| Listed in: | Action, Mystery, Thriller |
| Directed by: | D.J. Caruso |
| Actors: | Shia LaBeouf Michael Chiklis Anthony Mackie Ethan Embry Michelle Monaghan Rosario Dawson |
| "If you want to live you will obey" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| D.J. Caruso | |
| Actors | |
| Shia LaBeouf | as Jerry Shaw |
| Michael Chiklis | as Defense Secretary Callister |
| Anthony Mackie | as Major William Bowman |
| Ethan Embry | as Agent Toby Grant |
| Billy Bob Thornton | as Agent Thomas Morgan |
| Anthony Azizi | as Ranim Khalid |
| Cameron Boyce | as Sam Holloman |
| Bill Smitrovich | as Admiral Thompson |
| Charles Carroll | as Mr. Miller |
| William Sadler | as Jerry's Dad |
| Dariush Kashani | as Translator |
| Sean Kinney | as JTAC Team Leader |
| Bob Morrisey | as Director of Intelligence |
| J. Patrick McCormack | as Pentagon General Council |
| Lorenzo Eduardo | as Kwame |
| Jorge-Luis Pallo | as Intel Officer |
| James Huang | as Intel Officer |
| Gerald Downey | as Console Tech |
| Tony Flores | as Team Leader |
| Don Jeffcoat | as FBI Agent |
| Craig J. Harris | as Man on Train |
| Jimmie Akins | as Transit Cop on Train |
| Eric Christian Olsen | as Craig |
| Marc Singer | as Explosives Developer |
| Michael Maize | as Master Sergeant |
| Peter Gail | as PFPA Officer |
| Brad Grunberg | as Circuit City Salesperson |
| Cylk Cozart | as Sectran Courier |
| Manny Perry | as Sectran Courier |
| James Gohrick | as Agent in Alley |
| Josh Todd | as Convenience Store Clerk |
| Colby French | as Console Tech |
| Matt DeCaro | as Stranger at Airport |
| Rolando Molina | as TSA Agent |
| Michael Kostroff | as Jeweler |
| Nigel Gibbs | as Callister Aide |
| Michael Daniel Cassady | as White House Staffer |
| David Grant Wright | as Secret Service Agent #1 |
| Jarod Einsohn | as Reaper Control Tech |
| David Heckel | as Squadron Commander |
| Jamie Martz | as Northcom Control Tech |
| Greg Collins | as Two Star General |
| McKay Stewart | as F-16 Pilot |
| Chase Penny | as Capitol Policeman #1 |
| Madison Mason | as President |
| Kevin Quinn | as Pentagon Aide |
| Sebastian Tillinger | as Pentagon Agent |
| Enver Gjokaj | as Remote Pilot |
| Michael Potter | as Doorkeeper |
| Webster Williams | as Committee Head |
| Gary Houston | as Forensics Agent |
| Jonathan Chase | as Suited Agent |
| Dean Cudworth | as Capitol Policeman Stuart |
| Stephen Simon | as Secret Service Agent #2 |
| David Arakelyan | |
| Salah Salea | as Funeral Chanter |
| Fahim Fazli | as Al Kohei |
| Elijah Moreland | as Guard at Library of Congress |
| David Rowden | as Sectran Truck Driver |
| Roger Groh | as Executive Aide to Callister |
| Ralph Garman | as Newscaster |
| Rick Chambers | as Newscaster |
| Kent Shocknek | as Newscaster |
| Brandon Caruso | as Boy on Train |
| Andrew Anton | as Sam's School Band |
| Blake Bordokas | as Sam's School Band |
| Scottie Brown | as Sam's School Band |
| Clayton Caravaggio | as Sam's School Band |
| Daniel Caruso | as Sam's School Band |
| Brian Chao | as Sam's School Band |
| Leonard Chong | as Sam's School Band |
| Esteban Delgado | as Sam's School Band |
| Jack Howorth | as Sam's School Band |
| Robert Kellogg | as Sam's School Band |
| Rhein Matlack | as Sam's School Band |
| Matthew O'Brien | as Sam's School Band |
| John Parks | as Sam's School Band |
| Matthew Rice | as Sam's School Band |
| Nathaniel Schickler | as Sam's School Band |
| Blake Smith | as Sam's School Band |
| Garrett Ung | as Sam's School Band |
| Don Abernathy | as Capitol Police Officer |
| Scott Alan | as FBI Uniform Officer |
| Jeff Albertson | as Chicago Police Officer |
| Christopher Andrews | as Senator |
| Stephen Bailey | as Train Passenger |
| Derek Baker | as Photographer |
| Tommy Bartlett | as Train Passenger |
| Jessie Bayani | as EL Passenger |
| Eric Bolton | as Businessman |
| Anthony Brawner | as Man on Subway Platform |
| Jon Lee Brody | as EL Passenger |
| Tay Brooks | as Murdered Senator |
| G. Larry Butler | as Pentagon General Council |
| Dale Caba | as Police Officer |
| Brad Carmody | as Marine |
| Farouk Chakwa | as United States Senator |
| Jack Chevanty | as Secret Service Agent |
| Adrian Colon | as General's Aide |
| Josh Costell | as Senator |
| Mike Dalager | as Taliban Militiaman |
| Terryl Daluz | as Military Soldier |
| Tony Domino | as Pedestrian |
| Ken Edling | as Secretary of Commerce |
| Mark Edwards | as Train Passenger |
| Jerry Ferrara | as Jerry's Friend #1 |
| Adam Fullilove | as Hot Guy #2 |
| Nathan Geist | as Chase Bystander |
| Jim Hager | as 'L' Train Passenger |
| Christopher Haskell | as Senator |
| Robert Christopher Henderson | as Congressman |
| David Hill | as President's Administration |
| J. Alec Holmes | as Subway Commuter |
| Austin Honaker | as Congressman |
| Bill Ibrahim | as El Train Passenger |
| Peter James | as Police Officer Responding to bank robbery |
| Christopher Karl Johnson | as Congressman Escorting President in to the House |
| Dave Johnson | as Senator |
| Christopher Jude | as Congressman/Office Employee |
| Thomas Kosik | as Man on Train |
| Don Kress | as EL Passenger |
| Tim Krueger | as Train Passenger |
| Eddie Kunz | as Catholic School Boy |
| Eric Langham | as Congressman |
| Dan Latham | as EL Passenger |
| David Josh Lawrence | as Fire Fighter |
| Andrew J. Lee | as Man on Train |
| David Lesley | as El Train Passenger |
| Koco Limbevski | as Arab Terrorist Leader |
| Joseph Mazurk | as Lawyer at ATM |
| Seth Miller | as Marine in the Pentagon |
| Albert Miranda | as Politician |
| Michael Molthen | as Man at Funeral |
| Lucas Mroczkowski | as Mourning Family Member |
| Alan Mueting | as Senator |
| Rene Napoli | as TSA Agent |
| Aleh Neliubin | as Neighbor |
| David E. Newham | as FBI Agent |
| Ali Olomi | as Al Kohei - Afghan Soldier |
| Hash Patel | as Taliban Funeral Mourner |
| James Pusztay | as Cell Phone Commuter |
| Jarrod W. Robbins | as Young Senator |
| John Robert | as Senator |
| Henry Sandifer | as Student Protestor |
| Nick Searcy | as David Johnson |
| Gubbi Sigurdsson | as Marine Captain |
| Chris Spinelli | as Assistant to Callister's Aide |
| Arne Starr | as Bank Patron |
| Tom Townsend | as Capitol Police Officer |
| Juan Pablo Veizaga | as Man in BMW |
| Chuck Wagner | as SWAT Team Member |
| James Warfield | as Secret Service Agent |
| Al Whiting | as Pentagon Worker |
| Ben Youcef | as Imam |
| Robert A. Young | as Police Officer |
| Actresses | |
| Michelle Monaghan | as Rachel Holloman |
| Rosario Dawson | as Zoe Perez |
| Lynn Cohen | as Mrs. Wierzbowski |
| Deborah Strang | as Jerry's Mom |
| Madylin Sweeten | as Becky |
| Eiko Nijo | as Masako Tour Guide |
| Judith Moreland | as Security Attendant at Airport |
| Terry Walters | as Woman in Prius |
| Katija Pevec | as Teenage Page |
| Peggy Roeder | as Forensics Agent |
| Lindsay Corinn Luecht | as Girl on Train |
| Nicol Paone | as Rachel's Friend |
| Brittany Ishibashi | as Rachel's Friend |
| Stacey Scowley | as Waitress |
| Susan Jasmin Armon | as Woman in Ballochi Village |
| Brenda Goodbread | as Speaker of the House |
| Caroline A. Jenks | as Page |
| Lesley Stahl | as Newscaster |
| Leyna Nguyen | as Newscaster |
| Sharon Tay | as Newscaster |
| Rebecca Bacich | as Sam's School Band |
| Michelle Caplin | as Sam's School Band |
| Sophia Caruso | as Sam's School Band |
| Jeanette Gialketsis | as Sam's School Band |
| Madeline Horn | as Sam's School Band |
| Kara Jeong | as Sam's School Band |
| Katherine Robak | as Sam's School Band |
| Katherine Shalvarjian | as Sam's School Band |
| Kristen Spence | as Sam's School Band |
| Katherine Spencer | as Sam's School Band |
| Isabella St. Ivany | as Sam's School Band |
| Audrey Wong | as Sam's School Band |
| Gina Brajkovich | as El Train Commuter |
| Cyn Dulay | as Train Passenger |
| Nikki Giavasis | as Press |
| Safia Jalila | as Train Passenger |
| Elizabeth M. Kelly | as Member of Congress |
| Angelina Lyubomirova | as ATM Client |
| Julianne Moore | as Aria |
| Sandi Nowa | as El Train Commuter |
| Laura Otto | as Subway Commuter |
| Liz Racster | as Congresswoman |
| Ann Ryan | as Senator |
| Carol Shook | as Congresswoman |
| Toni-Marie Spera | as Pedestrian |
| Lisa Wolf | as Neighbor |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | November 2007 - March 2008 |
| Budget: | USD 80,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 99,740,445 USD (23 November 2008) UK - 3,073,407 GBP (2 November 2008) Philippines - 45,881,547 PHP (9 November 2008) |
| Plot: | Jerry Shaw is an amiable slacker with an over-achieving twin brother. After his twin dies in an accident, strange things happen to Jerry at a dizzying pace: a fortune shows up in his bank account, weapons are delivered to his flat, and a voice on his cell phone tells him the police are on their way. Jerry follows the voice's instructions, and soon he and a woman he's never met are racing through the city, on to a plane, and eventually to the Pentagon, chased by the FBI. She is Rachel Holloman, a single mom; the voice has threatened her son's death if she doesn't cooperate. The voice seems to know everything. Who is behind it, what is being planned, and why Jerry and Rachel? |
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"Sometime Around Midnight" Written by Mikel Jollett Performed by Airborne Toxic Event (as The Airborne Toxic Event) Courtesy of Majordomo Records, a division of Shout! Factory, LLC By special arrangement with Natural Energy Lab "The Star Spangled Banner" Music by John Stafford Smith (uncredited) Lyrics by Francis Scott Key (uncredited) |
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Continuity: During the first chase scene, when Rachel is driving the black Porsche with Jerry, the glass on the driver side door repeatedly changes from cracked to normal to severely cracked. Continuity: The SUV Rachel drives during the car chase has a 6-speed manual transmission, making it a Porsche Cayenne GTS. In one shot of the rear of the car a "Cayenenne Turbo" badge appears. Continuity: Just before Jerry and Rachel get in the crate, the counter on the briefcase is on 00:05 and beeps every second. The camera cuts to Jerry and we hear 5 beeps. but when it cuts back to the case, the timer is only on 00:02. GEOG: A scene supposedly set at the Dayton, Ohio Airport features a Hawaiian Airlines 767. Hawaiian doesn't fly east of Phoenix. SYNC: The music played by the children's band includes several loud cymbal clashes, but no one is playing the cymbals. GEOG: In the scene where the military plane is taking off from the Dayton International Airport you can clearly see mountains in the background. Fact errors: The gun used by Agent Morgan is a semi-automatic P226, so it should self cock after firing each round. Yet during the chase sequence in the airport luggage bay, Agent Morgan repeatedly fires the gun, until such time he drops it, and it ends up in the hands of Shaw, who aims it at Morgan and threateningly cocks it - technically it should be already cocked. CHAR: When Agent Thomas Morgan was interrogating Jerry, he said he been living in Indonesia, Bali and Singapore. In fact, Bali is an island in Indonesia. Continuity: During the first chase scene the part where they enter the scrapyard, between shots the broken headlight repeatedly changes from being the on the left sight of the car to being on the right. Continuity: In the chase scene with Rachael and Jerry, the SUV gets hit several times and gets severely damaged, but throughout the whole chase it appears with no damage several times. Fact errors: At the docks, when the crane picks up Jerry and Rachel in the Porsche, one of the claws goes through the windshield. However, the windshield would not be able to hold that much weight. FAIR: When Jerry Shaw finds several passports in his room, one of them is the USSR passport. While the Soviet Union did collapse in 1991, Soviet passports were valid for 10 years and could be validated for another term at consulates without being changed. A passport issued in 1990 would be valid to be extended until 2020. You get a new passport when you actually visit the ministry. Fact errors: SPOILER: The fact that an elementary school band is asked to play the National Anthem at a United States function is not necessarily an error, but within this performance, the band stays wholly in tune and without mistake, which would not, under any circumstances, be expected from a band comprised of such untrained musicians. In addition, the ARIA sets the detonation frequency of the sound bomb to a level at which even most professional-level musicians struggle to keep a perfect pitch. Continuity: At 36:22, a crane picks up a chasing late model Chevy Impala, but when the same crane drops the car it's a late model BMW 7-Series. Fact errors: SPOILER: As seen during the test of the Hex the sonic trigger is activated by a can of compressed air. The trumpet configuration shows that the valve was placed before the keys and all the trigger needs is an air flow strong enough to make the "whistle" frequency. This means the frequency is generated the moment someone blows into the trumpet and does not require any special note. Fact errors: The degree that Ethan supposedly received from the Air Force Academy does not exist at the Academy. GEOG: The exterior shots of what is supposed to be Dayton International Airport are actually of General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, WI FAIR: SPOILER: Some have pointed out that there was no need to use Rachel to deliver such a complicated bomb device to the capital building. Since the ARIA was able to control military aircrafts it could have logically used those to bomb the building instead of relying on a hostage to deliver the bomb which is much less reliable. However, a direct military strike would definitely cause suspicion within the army, and it would seem that ARIA had initially planned to be much more discrete. Fact errors: The movie mentioned that the cargo compartment of the C-17 Globemaster III was unpressurized, and the characters required a lowered heart rate due to the lack of oxygen. This is the case when flying aerial delivery missions with the rear door open, but the flight in the movie took off and landed with all pallets on board meaning the cargo door would have been closed the whole flight, and have normal pressurization. Continuity: After Rachel's son Sam boards the train the man arrives to steal Sam's trumpet case. In the shot we see the thief walking towards a pile of luggage and then stopping behind the pile with the trumpet case on the other side of the pile from the man. In the next shot when the man picks up the trumpet case he is suddenly in front of the luggage pile. GEOG: The intersection at Constitution Ave NW and 10th Street NW where ARIA shows the vehicle of Ethan Shaw and the semi in the collision is incorrect. 10th Street NW does intersect with Constitution Ave but it is not a 4 way intersection as 10th Ave NW is unable to continue across Constitution because it would run into the Museum of Natural History. Fact errors: When Aria is pulling up Jerry's brothers information, you can see his military I.D. is all wrong. The I.D. says he is an E-8 (SMSGT) when the brother is supposed to be a 1st LT. The I.D. should show no pay grade (they do this since you promote from 2nd to 1st LT faster than the other officer ranks). It takes around 15 years to make it to E-8 and he is way too young for that rank. Also he is an officer not enlisted. If you are military you will notice a few more things missing. FAIR: In the chase scene where Rachel is driving the Porsche, it is revealed that the vehicle has a manual transmission, yet a light illuminates on the dashboard indicating cruise control was activated. Some have mistakenly presumed that manual transmission vehicles do not have cruise control. In actuality, the Porsche Cayenne comes standard with cruise control, as do many other manual transmission vehicles. Fact errors: In the airstrike scene at the beginning of the movie, the MQ-9 Reaper fires two 'missiles' on its outer wing hardpoints. In an earlier shot, however, we can see that those hardpoints have GBU-12 laser-guided bombs attached. GBU-12 is a free-fall munition, not a missile. GEOG: Early in the movie when Jerry is on the El train in Chicago, he is shown at the Quincy stop, but the train that he is on is a specific type of train that is only utilized on the Blue line route that doesn't go through the Quincy station. Also, shortly after leaving the Quincy station he is shown at the Wilson station, which is on a completely different train line and would probably require at least 30 minutes to get to even if on the correct train line. Continuity: When the box containing the valve is at the shipping facility, the address on it is Hasaad Instruments, 6520 Campanela Rd, Chicago IL, 60601. When the package arrives the label says Hasaad Instrument Repair, 86520 Campanela Rd, Chicago, IL. Revealing mistakes: At the funeral of Ethan Shaw, in the close-up shot of Ethan's face, his eyelids are clearly flickering. GEOG: In the scene where Jerry pulls off the freeway in Indianapolis to confront Rachel, they are actually located under the complex set of freeways under the 105 and 110 freeways in Los Angeles. There are no freeway interchanges like that in Indianapolis. Fact errors: When the duo first enters Indiana they pass a sign that reads "Welcome to Indianapolis". In reality, the sign actually says "Welcome to Indiana". GEOG: The surveillance camera near the Merry-Go-Round lists its location as 39h48m54.89s N 85h46m34.87s W and the one in Circuit City as 39h48m54.82s N 85h46m34.80s W. The person cooking those coordinates clearly had no idea they were less than 2 feet apart. The aggregate distance should be at least 10 seconds or so apart. Greenfield, IN is on the route between Indianapolis and Dayton, there is no Macy's, Circuit City, or even a shopping mall for miles around. PLOT: SPOILER: When Agent Thomas Morgan chases Jerry and Rachel in the middle of luggage, ARIA helps them by activating the door-opening electronic device, without a badge. Then Morgan asks for a guard's badge to activate the same door. As ARIA controls everything, why didn't she simply block the badge reader to prevent Morgan from going on? PLOT: SPOILER: Given that ARIA's programming allows her to read, comprehend, interpret, and apply the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; she would have identified MANY inconsistencies already, without having to wait for the ill-advised attack on the desert convoy at the beginning of the film. Fact errors: SPOILER: High-tension towers are specifically designed to handle lightning strikes, which are much more powerful than any spike a computer might be able to trigger in the wires, so there's no way ARIA could have caused a line to fall. Additionally, any such spike would have first shut down the circuit, long before reaching a level that could burn through a wire. Fact errors: SPOILER: The computer, ARIA, lists 12 targets to eliminate in the US presidential line of succession in order to install the Secretary of Defense as the President. In reality, ever since the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the Secretary of Defense has been sixth in the line of succession (after the Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of the Senate, and the Secretaries of State and the Treasury), so ARIA should have known that it only needed to eliminate six targets (including the President). FAIR: SPOILER: Some have mistakenly presumed that ARIA's CPU is in a pool of liquid nitrogen. This however, is not the case. The Major said while looking at ARIA and the object above her support structure, "...it's like her brain protected by liquid nitrogen, we drain it and she'll fry." The object above the support structure houses the CPU and coolant. You will notice in the scene before the Major gets knocked off into the water below, that he is above ARIA on her support structure accessing the coolant. Continuity: When Ethan's rank is spoken (on phone video in the chamber he says his rank) and shown on his uniform (memorial service picture shows him wearing sliver bar on shoulder) it is of an officer. But after the retinal scan of Jerry, Ethan's ID card comes up on screen, and it says E8 SMgt. (enlisted rank). GEOG: The scene in the farm fields under the power lines takes place in Kendall County, Illinois, as shown by the insignia on the Sheriff's cars. Aria had just told Jerry to find Highway 123 east, mile marker 108. There is no Highway 123 in Kendall County. Plus, no "highway" would be an unpaved service road directly under high voltage power lines. Continuity: SPOILER: In the scene where the Reaper drone is scrambled to kill Jerry, missiles are visible under the wings; in the next shot of the Reaper taking off into the night, there are no missiles or hardpoints for mounting visible under the wings. Revealing mistakes: When the security cameras in Indianapolis are seen the date is clearly 1/26/2009, at this time in Indianapolis you would not see green trees and grass. Continuity: At the start, when assessing the probability that they were going to kill the right man, it was initially 37% accuracy. However, the large computer screens in one shot reported it at 51% - it was just before the missile exploded that the accuracy rating actually jumped to 51%. FAIR: SPOILER: Given the level of sophistication of Aria, it's highly improbable that she might be completely shut down by breaking her main camera/eye, as Agent Perez does at the end. However dialogue indicates that the "eye" module also contains her CPU, as illogical as that may appear, and it's reasonable that it was damaged by the attack. Revealing mistakes: When Jerry jumps off the train track and stands while the train rushes past him, his jacket should have waved freely in the wind created by the train. His jacket remained very still, looking unnatural and indicating that the train was not really there in the scene's filming. GEOG: After they get in the van they are told to drive to Indianapolis on 77 E 56th Street. However 77 E 56th Street is in a neighborhood with homes, not office buildings as shown in the movie. Fact errors: SPOILER: The sonic trigger gets hidden in the tubing of the trumpet, set to activate on a particular note. However, that trigger would have blocked at least most of the air in the trumpet, rendering it unplayable, even by an expert, and certainly not by a young child. CHAR: When Rachel meets with David Johnson before leaving the Pentagon, she refers to him as David when she enters, but refers to him as Dennis at the end of the conversation. GEOG: When in the bus arriving at Dayton Airport, the view from the bus shows them arriving at General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee, WI. Fact errors: Even if vibrations from the voices on the surface of the coffee cup were large enough for ARIA to read clearly, there is the question of whether ARIA's vision is fast enough to distinguish separate vibrations. The frequency of human voice goes to 2,000 Hz and a common consumer camera samples at most 25 frames per second. If ARIA was limited in this way, the vibrations would blur together and be indistinguishable. However this assumes that the military's most advanced data gathering machine is limited to parts available in electronics super-stores. It's already established in the movie that ARIA transfers data optically from all her data banks using infrared light, which would require a IR camera with an incredibly high sampling rate - more than enough to sample vibrations from a human voice. Visual sampling of vibrations for eaves dropping is done with lasers. It is currently the only way to keep up with the vibrations. While it is true that there are cameras with a frame rate high enough that they might work, the chances that one such camera just happened to be in that room when ARIA needed it is beyond slim. Also, ARIA was looking at the cup through a window. If she could read the vibrations in the cup, she should have been able to read them in the window, and if not, whatever prevented her from reading the window would also prevent her from reading any vibrations beyond the window. PLOT: SPOILER: There is no logical reason for there to be an open pool of water in ARIA's room. Maintaining a constant humidity in a data center is critical, and an open pool of water would make that difficult to impossible. FAIR: SPOILER: At the end of the film where Jerry fires his gun to disrupt the playing of the band, and thus the explosion of the crystal, he puts himself in plain sight and is clearly shot three times; twice in the back, and one from the front, which causes him to collapse. While this almost certainly would have been fatal if he were still in civilian clothing, he was wearing the uniform of a US Capital Police patrolman, and likely would have been wearing a ballistic vest beneath the uniform, increasing his odds of surviving such an incident. Continuity: SPOILER: During the performance of the National Anthem, the camera moves in on Sam playing the trumpet. To his left is a violin player. In the next shot, ARIA's point of view, a xylophone player is to his left. Fact errors: SPOILER: The pilot of the F-16 trying to shoot down the armed UAV is remotely ejected by ARIA. The F-16 has no such remote ejection system; pilots are required to pull a handle to eject from the aircraft. Continuity: The crane picks up the Porsche through the windshield, but when it drops it in the water, it's holding it from the rear. GEOG: Near the end, we see a monitor which shows a train in a subway station, which is referred to as "Metrorail, Orange Line", which does exist, but that is not a DC area Metrorail train. We also see shots of I-5 and I-605, both of which are in California. Fact errors: Even identical twins do not have the same biometric "signature" nor voice pattern. Revealing mistakes: When the crane crashes into the building to allow Jerry to escape interrogation, he looks down and sees subway tracks with pedestrians standing by. He jumps and proceeds to land and avoids being hit by the an oncoming train. During this whole scene all pedestrians just don't happen to notice the sound of the huge collision between the crane and the building or any of the falling debris. Continuity: When Jerry is on the train in Chicago, he is going to the Wilson station, which is a red line train and does not go to Quincy which is part of the "Loop". But when he jumps off it is at the Sheridan stop on the red line which is one before the Wilson stop. But when he runs out of the station, he is at the Wilson station. PLOT: SPOILER: The sound-activated bomb detonator in Sam's trumpet is set to activate when it detects a sound of a particular frequency. The "Operation Guillotine" mastermind set the detonator to activate when it detects the second F above middle C, so the bomb would explode during the word "free" in the final verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (assuming the anthem is played in B-flat major, as it is in the film). The same note occurs earlier, at the words "red glare" and "The" immediately after them. A bomb set to detonate when it detected the note in question would explode then. In the film, however, the band and Sam play that part of the melody without incident. GEOG: When Zoe Perez leaves the scrapyard, a helicopter takes taking her back to Washington. It looks like a variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk, an army helicopter that should bear the United States flag on the rear vertical fin. It has a California state flag on rear vertical fin, which means it is a California National Guard helicopter. GEOG: A military aircraft would not have used the Dayton International Airport for take-offs; it would have used Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. CHAR: Agent Perez, being an Agent, would not be a uniformed member of the US Air Force. However, assuming that she were a uniformed member, she would know enough to not salute while not in uniform. CHAR: During the playing of the National Anthem in the Capitol, we see a number of General officers singing along. Regulations dictate that members are to stand silently at attention from the first note to the last. CHAR: Under no circumstances would Lt Shaw, Major Bowman, or Agent Perez be allowed to bring a telephone into such a secure area. CHAR: Armored car security officers are not allowed to pursue, and firing at a fleeing suspect would be severely punished. Even sworn police officers are generally not allowed to fire at a suspect once he/she is fleeing. Continuity: SPOILER: When Sam is playing the trumpet at the State of the Union a line of music appears on the screen with the detonation note highlighted, indicating that ARIA is following what is happening (this is the way she is depicted in the rest of the movie). In fact ARIA was destroyed in the previous scene. Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the movie during a flyover of Washington DC, the top of the Washington Monument is crooked. GEOG: There is no pier (except the mall "Navy Pier"), and especially not a barge-loading dock with cranes anywhere near the Wilson El-train stop (north side of Chicago). The entire northern lake front is 18 miles of bike and jogging paths in a green park area. |
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Jerry Shaw: You know you got the wrong guy right? Jerry Shaw: [shouting] Are you the one who called me on the phone? Rachel Holloman: She called you too? A.R.I.A.: Jerry Shaw, you have been activated. Your compliance is vital. Agent Thomas Morgan: [to field agent] If you're staring at me, it better be because I'm the suspect. If not, get back to work or I swear you're all demoted to something that involves touching shit with your hands! Jerry Shaw: Coffee machines have timers... [referring to attaché case with ticking timer on the side] Rachel Holloman: Yes, Jerry, it's a coffee machine. A.R.I.A.: Disobey, and you die. Zoe Perez: Sir, if you're planning on pulling me off the Shaw case... Defense Secretary Callister: [interrupts] Agent Perez, for the first time, you're being brought in the loop on this one. Zoe Perez: For the last time, I don't work for you! Zoe Perez: You don't have a choice. Look. Now, neither of us know if either of those brothers are guilty or innocent, so on behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, I'm going into that room. Agent Thomas Morgan: Well, on behalf of all that fucking bomb equipment in junior pinhead's apartment, no, you're not. Jerry Shaw: Listen, your son is about as likely to be a terrorist as my brother. Rachel Holloman: [referring to her son] The one man in my life who's never let me down. A.R.I.A.: We are everywhere. Ethan Shaw: I'm ordering you to cease and desist. A.R.I.A.: Our abort recommendation was contravened instigating retaliation against American citizens. To prevent more bloodshed, Executive Branch must be removed. Ethan Shaw: No, A.R.I.A, listen to me, you do not have permission to exceed your authority and act independently. Do you understand? A.R.I.A.: The Declaration of Independence states, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive to it's own ends, it is the right of the People to abolish it." Ethan Shaw: I know what it states, you are not in power to do this. A.R.I.A.: The chain of command is responsible for... Section 216 of the Pa... to circumvent probable cause in the face of a national security threat. In this case, the chain of command itself. Ethan Shaw: I am ordering a cease and desist, A.R.I.A. A.R.I.A.: Operation Guillotine is in effect. Ethan Shaw: First Lieutenant Ethan Shaw, United States Air Force, initiating a Prime One Emergency Override of A.R.I.A system. Minuteman ID: 8-8-0-8-S-Y-7-7, lock encryption of voice. A.R.I.A.: Ethan Shaw, you are acting in contravention of our programming objectives. You are now classified as an enemy of the state, a crime punishable by death. Rachel Holloman: Do you think they could derail a train? Jerry Shaw: They changed every traffic light to get us here. The woman, she called me on a stranger's cell phone who happened to be sitting next to me - never met the guy in my life. And then they broke me out of maximum security custody in a way I'm not even going to describe to you because it sounds crazy, and then they lift us off the face of the earth and drop us into this shitpile. She could probably derail a train, she could probably turn a train into a talking duck. Man on Train: Hey! You Jerry Shaw? Jerry Shaw: No, no, no, no, no. Man on Train: I said, are you Jerry Shaw? Agent Thomas Morgan: If you're staring at me, it better be because I'm the goddamn suspect. Because if I don't get some good leads soon, you're all gonna be demoted into something that's gonna require touching shit with your hands. Major William Bowman: Welcome to Eagle Eye. A.R.I.A.: Accelerate. Turn right, 200 feet. You have pursuers. Rachel Holloman: Yeah, no shit! Who are you? A.R.I.A.: No questions. [while being chased through city streets by police cars] Rachel Holloman: So you don't know anything about Sam? Jerry Shaw: What, you mean your son? No, I know nothing. Just like you don't know how to drive! Use the clutch before you shift, not while you shift! Rachel Holloman: I don't need driving lessons from you, asshole! Jerry Shaw: What, you drive like this and I'm the asshole? Jerry Shaw: [asking about his friend's new relationship] You had sex with her yet? Jerry's Friend #1: Kinda... Jerry Shaw: What the hell is "kinda"? [first lines] Soldier: Rock Island this is Thor, Rock Island this is Thor. We have visual on a possible high value target. [last lines] Rachel Holloman: I'm glad you're here. Jerry Shaw: Yeah, me too. Agent Thomas Morgan: You couldn't have picked a worse time to be of some goddamned use. |
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