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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Skyfall: how many mistakes can you spot in the new James Bond film?

2012, SKYFALL
Daneil Craig as James Bond in Skyfall … In the next shot, the car is replaced with a motorbike. Not really. Photograph: Allstar/United Artists/Sportsphoto Ltd

Even from the trailer, it was clear the latest Bond wasn't going to have an easy ride through goof-ville. Almost all Londoners could be heard grousing about the impossibility of 007 sliding down the escalator partitions on the underground. What about the little triangle signs asking you to refrain from doing just that? What about the emergency stop buttons? Wouldn't they have scuppered Bond's descent? This and many other slip-ups have been lovingly chronicled on moviemistakes.com and on imdb (where the tally is currently 24 if you amalgamate continuity, geography and rather indignant character errors - "The dress worn by Bérénice Marlohe is described, and referred to by Bond, as backless. There is clearly sheer fabric encrusted with crystals – hardly backless.")

So, Bond experts: is this 007's most error-strewn outing yet? Or does Die Another Day's invisible car take the giddy biscuit to the extent that gaffe-chat is simply irrelevant?

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