Patriot Games Movie Details
Patriot Games taglines:Let the Games Begin.
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| Directors: Phillip Noyce | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 out of 28,205 votes |
“Patriot Games” 1992 by Phillip Noyce – Movie Goofs
“Patriot Games” Plot Summary
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge. add synopsis
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“Patriot Games” Goofs List
- Errors in geography: SPOILER: Cathy and Sally are being chased by Sean Miller, and eventually crash. It is obviously filmed on a California freeway, and not in Maryland, as there are several palm trees seen in the background. Plus, looking at the front of the Porsche at the moment of impact, airplanes and the control tower at LAX can be seen to the right.
- Errors in geography: Just as the announcement is finishing, another train can be heard arriving. After 1917, Aldwych station had only one track.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The announcement also contradicts itself, telling passengers both that the train is for Hatton Cross and that they must change at Acton Town for Hatton Cross. Also, the instruction “all change” means that passengers for ANY other destination must change, and is not used in relation to a specific destination.
- Factual errors: Train departure announcements on the London Underground, if made at all, do not list the train’s stops except where these might vary from one train to another.
- Errors in geography: Sean Miller is transferred from a prison in Southwark (in London) to the high security unit on the Isle of Wight. This would involve a land journey of 50 miles to the southwest, then a ferry across the Solent. However, the ambush is depicted as occurring at the Middlesbrough moving bridge, 200 miles north of London; and in later dialogue it’s said to have been in Kent near the Channel, which would be southeast of London and at least 70 miles from the Isle of Wight ferry routes.
- Factual errors: Jack Ryan could not have avoided the assassin by jumping behind a car because that particular street near the U.S. Naval Academy does not allow parking.
- Revealing mistakes: When they show Midshipman running on the Naval Academy campus, they show them running in a ceremonial area, when running is not allowed.
- Errors in geography: Cathy and Sally Ryan arrive at the hospital via a “LifeFlight” helicopter. MedEvacs in Maryland are primarily done by the Maryland State Police and there is no “LifeFlight” helicopter anywhere near the state of Maryland.
- Factual errors: After the crash on the 15/340 High Way, Cathy and Sally are transported to the hospital in a green and white medevac helicopter. The only medevac authorized carrier in the state of Maryland is the Maryland State Police. The only helicopter the MSP uses is the Dauphine painted Green and Black with the Maryland Flag painted on the Tail boom.
- Continuity: When Paddy O’Neil gives Jack a present, its position on the table changes between shots.
- Continuity: In the CIA brain-storming session, while Jack is on his way to the bathroom to “throw some water” on his face, the papers he’s carrying in his right hand disappear.
- Continuity: Just before he is shot, Jimmy O’Reardon is naked on the bed. As he is being shot, a blanket suddenly covers the lower half of his body. When he falls backwards onto the bed, the blanket also moves as if it is attached with some sort of adhesive.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: The band playing toward the beginning of the film showed drums playing out of sync with the music being played.
- Revealing mistakes: “Dead” Paddy Boy’s eyes are moving when the wool mask is being removed from his head.
- Revealing mistakes: After the attack on him outside the Naval Academy when Jack Ryan gets in his parked and locked car and drives away the passenger side window is open (due to filming him starting the car). Later the window is seen to be closed.
- Continuity: The two cars accompanying each prison van are identical early-1990s model Vauxhall Cavaliers, yet the wrecked burnt out car to the rear of the prison van after Sean Miller had been freed is an early-1980s Rover.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: The UZI machine pistols the terrorists use in the house attack towards the end, have no silencers fitted, but still make the sound of a silenced weapon.
- Factual errors: Lord Holmes says that The Queen has decided to invest Jack Ryan K.C.V.O. (Knight Commander of the [Royal] Victorian Order). The insignia is a neck badge and a breast star. When Lord Holmes shows the insignia to Ryan at his home, it is just a small round silver medal, the insignia of the Royal Victorian Medal (R.V.M.), a very minor award by comparison.
- Revealing mistakes: When the SAS squad attacks the Libya camp the satellite shows us a heat-sensitive view of the action. But when the SAS troops fire their weapons, the satellite does not show any muzzle flashes.
- Continuity: The keypad light on Jack’s alarm doesn’t come on until after he’s done setting it. A keypad light would be useless after an alarm has been set and would instead need to come on near the beginning of the process.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Jack Ryan is awarded the Knight Commander of the [Royal] Victorian Order, which is only available to British Citizens. The Central Intelligence Agency only recruits US Citizens. Jack could not therefore be knighted by the British. In the book however, an exception was made because he saved a member of the Royal Family, but this is not mentioned in the film.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the movie, Jack calls Cathy “Catherine”. According to the books, Cathy’s full first name is Caroline, not Catherine.
- Factual errors: When Dennis Cooley is in the desert begging with the IRA members to go on the mission Sean Miller tosses him a AK47 to test fire, when Dennis cannot operate the gun due to the safety been switched on, Miller takes it back and fires it at Dennis’s feet, despite the AK47’s powerful rounds no dirt or dust is thrown up from the bullet impacts.
- Factual errors: At the beginning of the movie, there is a game of Monopoly being played. The building of houses / hotels breaks the general rules. You have to build evenly, you cannot build a hotel on the Strand, with only two houses on the Trafalgar Square for example. Also the property card for Old Kent Road sits in the bank tray, but a player must own it, as it has a Hotel (and incorrectly another house) on it. The rent for landing on Oxford Street with a hotel is 1275, not 1100 (thats for 4 houses) as called out in the game.
- Revealing mistakes: In the night-vision-goggle scenes in the Ryan home, the windows are extremely bright, indicating that it is brighter outside than inside. NVGs only amplify available light, so at night they would still be darker than the walls. This shows that the scenes were filmed when it was daylight outside and then simply tinted green.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the electrician examines the wiring in Cooley’s bookshop he says that it dates from before the First World War. However this is after he has wiped the dust of a junction box which is dated 1917 – 3 years after the start of the war.
- Plot holes: When the power at the house goes dark, Ryan notes that there’s still power on at the boathouse, which is presumably at or near the same elevation has the house so as to be seen from it. Later, we see the bad guys look down 50-100 feet at the two boats in the water and open fire on them before rappelling down the cliff and giving chase to Ryan. Either Ryan’s boathouse is 50-100 feet tall (the elevation of the house) down to the water, or there’s some other sloped pathway to get there, which if the latter, would have also obviated the need for the bad guys to climb up, or rappel down to get to/from the house.
- Errors in geography: Dennis Cooley runs out of his bookshop in the Burlington Arcade and into a tube station at Aldwych, a mile away.
- Errors in geography: Tube trains from Aldwych ran only to the next station, Holborn, yet an announcement is heard in the station: “All change at Acton Town for Hatton Cross. Hatton Cross train stopping at Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Green Park, Acton Town, Hampstead Heath, Marble Arch, Hounslow East, [inaudible], Hyde Park. All change at Acton Town for Hatton Cross.”
- Errors in geography: Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner (not “Hyde Park”), Acton Town, Hounslow East, and Hatton Cross stations occur in that order along the Piccadilly Line. The other 12 stations in between, at which all trains stop, should also have been mentioned. Marble Arch and Oxford Circus are on the Central Line, not the Piccadilly, while Hampstead Heath is not on the Underground at all, but was a British Rail station.
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