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Batman Begins (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After Rachel slaps Bruce in the car outside Falcone's, his hair is messed up; the next shot it's nicely combed; and the next it's messed up again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce is thrown off the truck after being released from prison, his bag is several feet away from him. In the next shot it is at his feet.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of tree branches over the water well young Bruce falls in changes. The branches look one way (from the bottom looking up) when Rachel calls down, but it appears to be a different tree when Thomas Wayne lowers himself to rescue Bruce.
  
  

• Continuity: In the burning house scene as Bruce and Alfred escape, there is a burning table with a globe on it; moments later the table is not engulfed in flames.
  
  
• Continuity: After Bruce is hit by a burning piece of wood and Alfred comes into the house to save him, the fire decreases greatly
  
  
• Continuity: When Alfred comes back to the burning mansion, the log holding Wayne down isn't burning. When the shot is up close on Wayne, it's on fire again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the roof jump part of the Batmobile chase there is a police officer who orders batman not to move on the bullhorn. He is the same actor that later delivers the line 'Can you at least tell me what it looks like?' as the Batmobile whizzes past him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the S.W.A.T. officer goes to place the explosive charge on the wall, you can faintly see the outline of where the hole will be once it explodes.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Batmobile fishtails in the tunnel you can see the tire tracks on the ground from several previous takes of the same action.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: There is a stunt ramp visible when the second police car flips during the city chase.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the wide shot depicting the batmobile sitting idle atop the parking garage, a swift sweep of the SWAT helicopter's spotlight reveals dozens of cast and crew packed into the elevator waiting area.
  
  
• Continuity: The Gotham City police cars have a large "GPD" on the side but the abbreviation used on jackets is "GCPD".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the ninjas in the Brotherhood withdraw their swords, there is a distinct metal-on-metal noise, yet their scabbards are made of leather.
  
  
• Continuity: When Batman grabs one of the men unpacking boxes of 'toys' from the shipping container, another one of the men begins walking towards the container to check on him. The boxes seen through the doorway of the container change position from one shot to the next.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the short segue scene where Rachel Dawes is driving to Arkham Asylum, the street clearly has three lanes separated by white dashed lines indicating a single direction of traffic, yet traffic is flowing in both directions.
  
  
• Factual errors: There is a typo "loose" instead of "lose" in a newspaper article shown.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the ending credits there is a spelling typo - supervising is spelled supervsing so it is missing an "i".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bruce returns home from Princeton, he checks to make sure that his revolver is loaded before he goes to Joe Chill's trial. If you look closely, you can clearly see the primers have all been struck. Because of this, there couldn't possibly be any bullets in the gun.
  
  
• Continuity: During his conversation with Rachel in the car outside Falcone's, Bruce's seatbelt is visibly fastened, but he later gets out of the car without unbuckling the belt.
  
  
• Plot holes: The toxin used by the Scarecrow is shown to take almost instant effect on its victims but when the League of Shadows set the microwave emitter off and disperse the water-borne toxin into the air, they are shown to be caught by several jets and clouds of steam before putting their gas masks on. Ducard then boards the train, which would be full of the toxin-laden air, and takes his mask off, all without any side effects.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Bruce Wayne's birthday party -- the birthday song does not match the lips of the party-goers.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Ducard should be unconscious while sliding down the mountain side, but he still keeps his head elevated away from the ice.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the end, when Bruce is talking to Rachel, the angle is on her, Bruce is talking, but his jaw (seen from behind) is not moving. Not unusual in most movies, but this went on for quite a while.
  
  
• Factual errors: Scarecrow uses a large microwave emitter to boil Gotham's water supply and produce the hallucinogenic steam. This sounds like a plausible plan, due to the fact that microwaves do indeed excite (heat) water molecules, until one takes into consideration the fact that the water molecules make up about 70% of the human body. Therefore, everyone standing near the microwave emitter when it was activated should have melted... literally.
  
  
• Plot holes: The final fight revolves around the micro-wave emitter which is supposed to vaporise water around it in a very large area. But the protagonists around the machine do not seem to suffer from it, the scenarist probably forgot that the human body contains 70% water. Everybody in Gotham would be blowing up.
  
  

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