Mission: Impossible II Movie Details
Mission: Impossible II taglines:Expect the impossible again
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| Directors: John Woo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 out of 81,480 votes |
“Mission: Impossible II” 2000 by John Woo – Movie Goofs
“M:I-2″ Plot Summary
A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called “Chimera”
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“Mission: Impossible II” Goofs List
- Continuity: In the final motorcycle chase both bikes start off with road tires. Later in the chase when they go off road, at least one bike has switched to knobbly off-road tires.
- Continuity: Luther’s full name in the movie and in Mission: Impossible (1996) is “Luther Stickell”. The end credits, however, list his name as “Luther Strickell”.
- Continuity: Headlights on Ethan Hunt’s bike no longer shot out during bike chase.
- Factual errors: During the car chase in Spain between Ethan and Nyah, the cars are supposed to be spanish, but the cars have wrong number plate (in Spain they should be ‘OOOO XXX’ or ‘XX-OOOO-XX’ where X=Letter O=Number)
- Factual errors: When Ethan shoots at Ambrose during the bike chase, the windshield of Ambrose’s bike shatters. Sportbike windshields are high-impact plastic, and would not shatter.
- Continuity: In the bike chase scene during the end of the movie. Both bikes have street tires during the street chase but when they hit the dirt the tread is thicker and deeper, essentially dirt tires.
- Errors in geography: When Ethan uses the tracking unit to locate Nyah in Sean’s villa right on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour, the coordinates on screen are given as 3352′48″S 15113′10″E. This puts the house in the middle of the nightlife suburb Darlinghurst, nowhere near the harbour.
- Crew or equipment visible: During the motorcycle chase, when Ethan smokes the cars chasing him, right before he enters the intersection, the fog machine is visible on the right side of the screen.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The villains use nitrous oxide to knock out (not kill) the people on the plane. However, Sean tells his sidekick to disconnect the “NO2 tank”, both on-screen and in the closed-captioning. However, nitrous oxide is “N2O”. “NO2″ is Nitrogen Dioxide, a poisonous, smelly gas that would be immediate noticeable, and would kill the passengers, not quietly knock them out.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Ethan is climbing up the side of the Biocyte island, crew trailers can be seen on the island.
- Continuity: When Ethan comes out of the room where he destroyed the chimera in the Petri dishes, and takes the protective mask off, the top section of his hair is obviously clipped back, but wasn’t clipped back earlier, or in the next shot.
- Continuity: When, at the end of the movie, Ethan sees Nyah, he does not have a scar on his right cheek anymore. When he then hugs her, the scar is back.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Ethan Hunt destroys the Chimera virus in the lab, the computer confirms “Organisms exterminated”; while viruses may not be considered by some to be “organisms,” experts in the field often refer to them as such. In any case, the lab might be using software that isn’t specific to viruses.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Ethan Hunt gets his mission objectives by the sunglasses the camera can be seen in them.
- Factual errors: The Triumph bike ridden by Hunt in the chase scene would have quickly and easily outrun the 4-wheel-drive vehicles driven by his pursuers.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Photos of the effects of the virus shown on the digital camera display undamaged skin at the 20 hour point, so the fact that Nyah’s skin shows no ill effects near the end of the film is consistent.
- Factual errors: While red blood cells don’t have a nucleus, they can still be infected by viruses, causing haemolysis, which can be fatal. However, *not* by an influenza-based virus; influenza viruses can only attach to surface receptors causing clumping, or haemagglutination.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Ethan Hunt blows up the door of the facility where Sean Ambrose is bargaining for the money (the place where you see all the doves), a crack in the wall appears to look like a support wire.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the car chase between Ethan and Nyah, Ethan makes an obvious point of trying to fasten his seat belt (though not succeeding), and the belt is off and on again numerous times throughout the chase. Ethan never successfully put on his seat belt and it only got as far as his shoulder because it locked. Thus, it appears and disappears as though it was never completely done up.
- Errors in geography: The Spanish popular feast Fallas, where wooden figures are burned in the streets, is not celebrated in Seville, as is shown in the movie, but in Valencia. Anyway, the figures never represent saints, but celebrities from politics, sports, society life, etc.
- Continuity: After the fight with Ambrose, when Hunt is looking at Nyah the blood on his cheek and upper lip changes.
- Continuity: During the final showdown between Hunt and Ambrose, the number of clouds in the sky frequently changes between shots.
- Continuity: When we are shown the satellite positioning itself over Australia ready to home in on Nyah, there are no clouds at all over Sydney. However, in the next shot (taken from the ground), the sky is littered with them.
- Errors in geography: The cliffs Nyah is about to jump off are east of Sydney but Luther and Billy fly west over the city to get there. Further, they are much more than the stated two kilometers away.
- Continuity: The windscreen on Ethan’s motorbike fixes itself in some later shots.
- Factual errors: The Darling harbor area where Sean drops Nyah off is closed to automotive traffic.
- Revealing mistakes: When the Triumph bikes are landed after being “wheelied” (driven on the rear wheel), the front suspension does not compress at all, when in fact the fork would compress by several inches.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Hunt overtakes Nyah in the car chase, his car is on her right, thus putting her on the wrong side of the road. This is because she is taking evasive action.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the pilot is trying to avoid crashing into the mountains, he pushes the handle forward, instead of pulling it towards him. That’s because he’s pushing the throttle.
- Factual errors: Genes cannot be spliced into influenza viruses as the genome is segmented.
- Continuity: During the car chase with Nyah, some footage of Hunt’s Porsche appears reversed: the driver and damage are on the wrong side, the license plate is reversed, etc.
- Continuity: During the bike chase Ethan shoots a plastic panel on the bike Sean is riding making an irregular fracture. Later, the panel is seen with a perfect zigzag circular hole.
- Revealing mistakes: The scene where Luther and the pilot are shot by automatic fire, and are forced to steer clear of the fire, is obviously used two times.
- Continuity: During the “morning after” when Nyah and Hunt are talking in bed, Ethan leans into her and is practically nose to nose with her and in the next shot is propped up on his arm almost 7 or 8 inches from her, then, in the next shot, they are close again.
- Factual errors: In the biomed facility, the air should be extremely clean. Hence we should not be able to see the laser.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Hunt hits the car with his motorcycle and grinds to a halt, he kicks down his right foot. That’s the rear brake, not (as some thought) the gear.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the scene where Hunt’s convincing Nyah of going back to Ambrose, Nyah’s lips move well before we hear her.
- Continuity: During the car chase with Nyah, we can see shadows from the front window frame on Ethan’s face. They disappear in close-ups.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the big chase sequence, when Ethan Hunt shoots the windshield of Sean Ambrose’s motorbike, the angle of the bullet might be sufficient to hit Sean Ambrose, but it also might be sufficiently deflected by the windshield.
- Continuity: When Ethan and Nyah are looking at each other through binoculars at the horse races the position of Nyah’s hair changes from behind her ear to over her ear a couple times.
- Continuity: While much is made of the 40 seconds available to get Hunt into the Biocyte building and get the cable out again a NATURAL LIGHT SHAFT MANUAL-OVERRIDE alarms systems safety notice appears on the computer screen Luther is looking at. The notice declares: In accordance with city safety code 24395 if the light shaft aperture malfunctions and opens outside of daylight hours, after a period of 20 seconds has elapsed the state emergency services will be alerted.
- Continuity: Toward the end of the movie, the amount of ransom asked was 30 million pounds. The amount shown on the computer screen during the
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