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I Am Legend (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

• Continuity: In one scene, you can see Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" hanging on the wall as they run up the stairs. In a later scene, it's hanging over the fireplace.
  
  
• Continuity: If you look out of the car window on the driver's side (at roughly the 3:18 mark) just after Neville grabs his gun, you will see a silver and red car parked (silver on left, red on right). Neville 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: The hand grenade Neville 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: A running man can't approach a fleeing whitetail deer's speed.
  
  
• 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 Neville 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Neville fires his gun (an M4A1 carbine) at the dark seeker in the house and runs out of ammo, the weapon can be heard clicking several times. An M4A1 will not click when the magazine runs empty. The bolt carrier group will lock to the rear holding the hammer down; pulling the trigger has no further effect.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the lab, when Anna is looking at the pictures of the Dark Seekers, many of these pictures are obvious duplicates.
  
  
• Continuity: When Neville is closing the windows after Anna and Ethan are in his apartment, his shirt changes from long sleeve white to dark short sleeve, then back again when he leaves the room.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Neville is able to drive around the city after 3 years of isolation. Gas starts degrading in three months in the tank of the car, but in a closed tank (such as those at a gasstation) it can be kept for several years. The degradation is due to the fact that it evaporates and mixes with oxygen, but that doesn't happen in an airtight tank.
  
  
• Continuity: When Robert Neville goes to sleep the first night, he is adamant about shutting all reinforcements on the windows. Yet when he wakes up in his bed in the morning, we see the sun shining in through the unbarred windows. As proved later in the film, he cannot remove the barriers from the windows until dawn has broken properly.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The sounds made by the fleeing whitetail deer are elk noises.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Robert Neville tells Anna that there were 6 billion people on Earth, 90 percent were killed by KV outright (5.4 billion) and that there was one percent immunity. From that he arrived at twelve million immune and 588 million dark seekers. However, if calculated from the 600 million remaining (the ten percent that did not die outright) one percent would be six million, not twelve million, leaving 594 million dark seekers, not 588 million. The numbers he arrives at would be correct with 2 percent immunity.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Neville is eating cereal he pours on milk. But three years have passed so there would be no fresh milk. However, Anna later mentions that the eggs are powdered eggs, so it is certainly powdered milk that Neville puts on his cereal.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Shortly after Neville finishes quoting 'Shrek', a shot of the lounge as he walks into the kitchen reveals that the audio from the film does not actually match the visual images.
  
  
• Continuity: When Col. Neville is ensnared by the Alpha Male there is no line attached to the taxi cab.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene in Neville's apartment, he is seen watching TV. The TV has 3 A/V connectors plugged in the front, presumably from an adjacent device. In later scenes, although the same devices are still there, the A/V connectors are now missing
  
  
• Continuity: When Robert finally talks to the mannequin after Sam's death, he approaches "her" from behind. In front of the mannequin there are many movies on the shelves, but when Robert starts talking to "her" being by her side, the same movie cases appear next to Robert.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the beginning, the bridges are blown up to prevent access to Manhattan. At the end, they are seen driving off Manhattan on a bridge. However, only two bridges are shown being destroyed. There are many other bridges that may have been left intact in order to allow (yet minimize) access.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A little after the scene where Robert was ensnared and then he cut himself loose; The streak of sunshine on the street preventing the monsters reaching Robert becomes narrower as the sun sets. For the sunshine on the street to become narrower as depicted in that scene, the sun would have to have been setting behind Robert or the alpha male. The was sun setting into the distance on Robert's right side and the alpha male's left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Robert Neville has his flash backs with his family in there SUV a zombie smashes his face against the window creating a blood splatter mark on the passengers window. But in a later flashback the blood splatter is gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: White-tail deer habitat is medium-growth forest and field/forest edges and they are by nature extremely wary of people. There is no reason for them to hang around urban (albeit deserted) areas that serve as neither feeding ground nor bedding area for them and pose extremely high danger of encountering people (They can't know that people are gone forever.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Neville waits each day for a response to his continuous recorded AM radio broadcasts, which instruct any uninfected survivors to meet him at noon each day at the South Street Seaport. However, using AM band instead of short wave, he would have been able to reach survivors only in the vicinity of New York City.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The scene where mass evacuation of Manhattan is undertaken in December 2009 shows that there were tens of thousands of people were still trapped in Manhattan even after imposing of the military-enforced quarantine of the island. However, in the following scenes there are no human bones scattered throughout the island, even though they obviously all perished in ensuing disaster.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The automobiles throughout the movie are remarkably clean. After sitting out in the open for three years, they would be covered with dirt, bird droppings, and other such debris.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the mass evacuation scene the M4 that the military is using clearly have the civilian 16" barrels. The military issued Colt M4 have 14.5" barrels.
  
  
• Continuity: When Robert is hitting golf balls from the aircraft carrier and uses his carbine to scope the running deer, the flashlight on his weapon is on (his) left side of the barrel. In the subsequent scene when he enters the dark area, the flashlight moves to the opposite side.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Robert Neville is about to enter the dark are to chase after Sam, and as he is swinging his gun from side to side, for a split second, a camera's shadow can be seen sweeping towards the left as he is doing so.
  
  

• 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 "alpha" Dark Seeker smashes them, the sound is that of breaking glass.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: During the scene on the dock just before Neville's rescue by Anna and Ethan: the driver's side window is shattered several times, but exterior views of the SUV shows the window intact.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the opening scene, 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.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Anna rescues Robert using her vehicle, she said she drove all the way there from Baltimore. But since all the bridges were already destroyed, it's not clear how she got her vehicle onto Manhattan Island. However, she could have taken a small boat to the island and resupplied there. The island is full of cars and goods, and there's no indication that the car she was driving on Manhattan is the one she drove from Baltimore. In fact, the car she's driving when she reaches Vermont at the end clearly is new, suggesting she had to get another car after leaving the island.
  
  

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