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I Am Legend (2007)

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• Factual errors: All the flags shown hanging from various buildings in New York City are in perfect condition. These flags would have been torn and faded from three years of hanging in the weather.
  
  
• Factual errors: Robert Neville is a Lieutenant Colonel but his insignia in the shots portraying him in his military dress uniform are golden, which indicate the rank of Major.
  
  
• Continuity: The bite marks on the right shoulder of Neville jump to his left shoulder during a cut shot in the final scene in the basement lab.
  
  

• Factual errors: Vaccines do NOT cure someone who has already been exposed to a virus and who is showing symptoms (in come cases, such as rabies, a vaccine is effective if it's administered almost immediately and long before symptoms appear.) Vaccines can prevent infection but not cure it (that's why so many people die from the flu. If they got the flu shot first and didn't get sick, they wouldn't die but the shot is useless after symptoms show.) This is a common issue with many films.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the beginning scenes, where the camera pans over the city, during one pass over a road that runs horizontally across the picture, if you look closely people can be seen walking close to the buildings.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the final battle scene, during the initial invasion of the apartment. The M-4 depicted runs out of ammo. This weapon sound is depicted as beginning to "click click click". This is not how the M-16 (M4) class of weapons work. The action is gas driven based on the last round fired. The trigger/firing pin does not continue working once the ammo source is depleted. This sound would indicate an electric driven firing system.
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene you can see Vincent Van Gough's Starry Night hanging on the wall as they run up the stairs. In another scene, it's hanging over the fireplace.
  
  
• Continuity: If you look out of the car window on the drivers side at roughly the 3:18 mark just after Robert grabs his gun you will see a silver and red car parked (silver on left, red on right). Robert continues driving down the road and away from the parked cars but at around the 4:00 mark, when you get another clear shot out his window (over his shoulder), you can see the same two cars parked yet he is not in the same area where they first appeared.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the beginning of the movie, Dr. Neville is seen pouring vinegar. Just like one of those trick baby bottles that never run out, it appears to get low and fill up on it's own.
  
  
• Continuity: When Neville is on the carrier, and raises his gun to look at the deer, the flashlight on the gun is on the right side of the screen, when Neville goes inside the building to look for Sam, the flashlight on his gun is on the left side of the screen.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Neville shoots the mannequin with his M4, he fires 20 shots into the manikin and 21 shots into the buildings around him, but his M4 rifle can only hold a maximum of 31 bullets in the magazine (30 plus 1 in the chamber).
  
  
• Factual errors: The hand grenade he pulls out in the end scene has a blue arming spoon. Only dummy grenades have blue arming spoons, meaning the grenade isn't a real one.
  
  
• Factual errors: Lions do not kill by biting the back of the prey's neck, as shown. They strangle their prey by biting the windpipe, like all great cats. Only clumsy, inexperienced cats bite the back of the neck, and the one shown is obviously a skilled hunter.
  
  
• Factual errors: Whitetail deer do not run in herds, as shown. When they're spooked, they scatter. Bucks (with antlers) rarely encounter each other, much less in large groups. They will not enter an enclosed space, like a darkened doorway.
  
  
• Factual errors: Whitetail deer have exceptional hearing, and would never allow a hunter (of any species) to approach on flat ground.
  
  
• Factual errors: A running man can't approach a fleeing whitetail deer's speed. Neither can a dog.
  
  
• Continuity: After his first swing, we can clearly see only 3 balls remain on the SR-71, and they're immediately beside the dog. But when the shot reverses, he hits another without resetting a ball, or taking a step forward, or disturbing the dog.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Nevelle opens the drawer in his lab and grabs the grenade, it is shown as a fragmentary grenade. However, when he sets it off it explodes in a burst of flame. Fragmentary grenades explode without large flames and throw shrapnel. The explosion shown would have been from an incendiary grenade, which looks like an aerosol canister and not the rounded frag grenade.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When explaining the devastation caused by the virus, Dr. Neville calculates the number of immune people as being 12 million. One percent of 600 million is actually 6 million.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: When Neville is in the dark warehouse looking for Sam, he enters a bathroom. When his flashlight hits a mirror, he ducks and shields the light, but there is still a circle of light from the camera behind him.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: Neville states the lab doors are made of Plexiglas (acrylic), but when the so-called Alpha Dark Seeker smashes them the sound is breaking glass.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: During the scene on the dock just before his rescue by Anna and Ethan: the driver's side window is shattered several times, but exterior views of the SUV shows the window intact.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: During the battle in Neville's house, after he goes upstairs and finds Anna and Ethan hiding under a desk while a dark seeker rips open the roof, Neville grabs an M9 pistol (a double/single action) and shoots the dark seeker. After firing a few times, the hammer would be in the back position. However, when he goes to shoot the dark seeker again to finish him off, the hammer is in the forwards position, as though it had not yet been fired.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the opening scene, Dr Neville's M4 rifle has a sling attached. After the deer he is aiming at gets attacked by the lion, the rifle no longer has a sling.
  
  

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