The Sum of All Fears Movie Details
The Sum of All Fears taglines:27,000 Nuclear Weapons. One Is Missing.
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| Directors: Phil Alden Robinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 out of 36,952 votes |
“The Sum of All Fears” 2002 by Phil Alden Robinson – Movie Goofs
“The Sum of All Fears” Plot Summary
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore. add synopsis
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“The Sum of All Fears” Goofs List
- Continuity: When Jack is in bed with Cathy, a shot of their feet shows Jack to be on the right. When we see their bodies, Jack is on the left.
- Continuity: There are at least two different “Tail Numbers” shown for the President’s aircraft – a four digit (42xx) tail number is used when the aircraft is on the ground, and later a five digit (7xxxx) number is used when the plane is flying.
- Factual errors: The presidential motorcade always has an ambulance. On the I-395 scene there is none.
- Factual errors: The e-mail Mason is reading at the harbor is dated Monday, 19th November 2002. The 19th of November 2002 was a Tuesday.
- Continuity: When we first see the email Mason is reading at the harbor, it reads Monday November 19th, 2001, in the close-up it changes to 2002.
- Continuity: When the small jet lands back in the USA after the visit to see the Russian President, the engines are just shutting down, the door opens, and you can see a cable attached to the plane. There was not enough time for ground crews to have done this.
- Errors in geography: In the dead of winter, during the F-16 attack on the Russian airbases in the Arctic Circle, the sun is shining brightly overhead.
- Factual errors: When President Nemerov first meets Jack Ryan, he is having his portrait taken with a Sinar 4×5 view camera. We correctly see the President’s image upside down in the camera, however the photographer continues to take pictures with an empty camera. In a 4×5 view camera film is loaded with individual sheets placed in front of the glass viewscreen. Seeing the President’s image in the camera would be impossible if the camera were actually loaded. Also the sound effect is that of an SLR medium-format camera which uses a focal-plane shutter and flipping mirror. The Sinar uses neither. Its shutter is actually inside the lens and makes very little noise.
- Continuity: As the aircraft carrier is being attacked there is a shot of the flight crew and pilots racing for the fighters. In the wide shot of the crippled carrier there isn’t a single crew member visible.
- Continuity: As Ryan’s helicopter crashes after being hit by shockwave, you can see one of the crewmen almost get thrown clear off the chopper’s right front window. When Ryan climbs out of the destroyed aircraft, the crewman is nowhere to be seen; later on, when Ryan reaches for the radio, the crewman’s body is farther inside the aircraft.
- Continuity: After spraying the chain link fence with the chemical agent, Clark pulls the section of fence toward him and drops it. When the guards find the hole in the fence, the section is on the other side.
- Factual errors: When the nuclear bomb detonates, its shock wave is strong enough to flip the presidential limousine in the outskirts of the city over. It would have to have a yield of at least 1 megaton to do this, but news broadcasts describe the explosion as being smaller than that of the Hiroshima bomb. The Hiroshima bomb had a yield of 15 kilotons.
- Continuity: During the initial stages of the car explosion at the end of the movie, you clearly see another car parked in front with its hazard lights flashing, as if set off by the force of the bomb. Yet when the camera position moves back and you get a top down view of the burning car, this car has disappeared.
- Factual errors: The Berlin Brigade mentioned at the start of the movie was disbanded in 1994, eight years before the movie takes place (2002).
- Factual errors: When the President and his aide give the order for a nuclear attack, it is said that about one minute will pass, before the missiles start. In reality the Launch Control Centers alone need between three and five minutes to order the launches.
- Factual errors: The nuclear suitcase is wrongly described. In reality the suitcase contains red plastic cards with codes, that have to be transmitted to the nuclear forces. The identification codes on the cards that the President and his aide have to carry at all times with them are not enough.
- Factual errors: When Ryan crashes his pickup into the parked sedan in Baltimore, the airbag does not deploy, even though the collision is head-on.
- Continuity: The Baltimore Forum has a dome in the opening shoots of the football scene but it disappears later in the high aerial shot.
- Factual errors: The three primary effects of nuclear detonation -flash, heat and blast- are confused. In the blast scene from inside the hospital, the shock wave and flash of light arrive together. The only way for this to happen is if the hospital was right next to the stadium, in which case the hospital would be obliterated. Furthermore the heat from the blast appears to have no effect. Everyone else, further from the explosion, would first be blinded/burned by the light/heat before the shock wave would hit them -as the shock wave travels only at about the speed of sound. Also in the TV the blast in the stadium is seen the fraction of a second before the blast hits the hospital. Even with a direct link to the camera in the stadium the picture of the blast couldn’t arrive earlier than the flash of the light from the bomb itself.
- Continuity: When Mason is loading the crate containing the bomb into his truck, the forklift pallet is clearly still attached to the bottom of the crate. When Mason reaches the Stadium and unloads the crate, the forklift pallet is missing.
- Factual errors: When the American planes are attacking the Russian airbase, they are all using their anti-collision lights, something that would never be done on an actual combat mission.
- Continuity: The digital clock in Air Force One continuously displays the wrong time. Changes from 22:52 to 22:50 in a cut scene.
- Factual errors: The Maryland flag on the tail of the state police helicopter is upside down.
- Errors in geography: The people digging out the Israeli look like nomad Bedouins in a tent camp. In fact, at least in the Israeli side of the Golan, there are no Bedouin inhabitants. The Golan Heights are inhabited only by Druz and Israeli Jews.
- Factual errors: It is next to impossible to get radiation poisoning from skin contact with plutonium.
- Anachronisms: The city Arzamas-16 was renamed Kremlyov in 1991 and since 1995 its official name is Sarov. It is possible that officers use the old name out of habit but that doesn’t explain mistake in the forced subtitles.
- Factual errors: The Presidential motorcade is not only short an ambulance, it is also missing a large portion of police presence, at least 3 times less than there would be there in reality. Also, if not directly above, there should be a chopper near by.
- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The knife John Clark uses to kill Olson towards the end of the movie is a Cold Steel tanto-style rubber training knife.
- Errors in geography: As the president’s motorcade is shown driving towards the Baltimore Forum – located in the inner harbor – we see a helicopter shot of the president’s motorcade headed out of town on I-395 and turning east to go directly through the Ft. McHenry Tunnel, away from the inner harbor.
- Continuity: When Ryan tries to summon help after his helicopter crashes, he reaches into the cockpit and turns a knob on the radio transmitter. The film has been flipped and the word “frequency” under the knob is clearly spelled backwards. This would also explain why Ryan reaches through the cockpit window with his right arm, but it’s his left hand that adjusts the radio frequency.
- Errors in geography: The scenes in the Golan Heights are obviously not shot in the Golan Heights, a relatively mountainous and forested area.
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