The Bourne Ultimatum

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The Bourne Ultimatum Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (revealing mistake): At Waterloo Station, as Bourne is preparing to drop the phone into the Reporter's pocket, two extras are walking towards the camera - a man with a beret (on the right) and a woman with a white knit hat (on the left). In the next shot of the reporter, the same two extras walk around the corner, except they've switched sides
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the Moscow militia chasing scene, Bourne breaks into a pharmacy. Russian pharmacies are guarded at night by armed guard. It's a law provision.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Jason Bourne hot-wires the Audi on the parking garage rooftop, he puts it in drive and slams into a parked SUV pushing it forward. He then puts it in reverse to escape other agents. As the camera shows the full screen shot of the Audi, the front of the car is completely undamaged - like new.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the last and most spectacular window-to-window jump scene in Tangier, Bourne is holding a gun in his right hand when he jumps off. The immediately following in-air shot from below shows him with the gun in the right hand still, but the next in-air shot from behind shows him with no gun in the right hand while his left hand is covered by his body. When Bourne crash-lands, neither his hand is holding the gun any more, but then he stands up to fight Desh, and the gun suddenly returns into his right hand. This is explained on the extras on the DVD. The shot of the jump was flipped vertically by the editing team.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Bourne calls Landy, which also is the final scene of The Bourne Supremacy, Landy's cellphone vibrates and she picks it up. However, in The Bourne Supremacy, Landy's phone rings, it does not vibrate.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Bourne returns to NYC, there is an aerial shot of two ballfields with perfectly green grass, and no snow. Yet in several places on the streets, there is plenty of snow.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After the explosion scene that takes place in Tangier, Jason gets up and walks down a slope to chase Desh. While a subsequent shot shows Jason wearing a pair of dark shoes, in a shot that follows immediately, the shoes he wears magically turn into a pair of white-color sports ones. But in next shots, the shoes become all dark again just as they always are.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the Police Car Chase, the Volkswagen Toureg SUV is seen smashing frequently into the police car. in a few different scenes the Toureg is seen with a damaged front end, and in later scenes, it's seen with a more/less damaged front end.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): 415 E 71st St. is not on the East River. It's actually a walkup apartment building between 1st and York Avenues. Moreover, Bourne jumps from the roof of 415 E. 71st St. into the East River. This could not possible as that building is between First and York Avenues, more than a full city block from the river.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Nicky Parsons is on her laptop trying to locate Neal Daniels, and is logged on to her CIA account, when the camera shows a side view of her typing, her screen does not show the CIA screen but the Desktop, it then switches back to the CIA screen in the next shot.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Bourne arrives in New York, and is paged as a message from Pam Landry, the page is for a Mr. Gilberto de Piento. If you look at The Bourne Identity, when he retrieves the passports from the bank deposit box, Gilberto de Piento is the Consul General who signed the passport, not his name on the passport. His name on the passport is Joao do Carmo.
Movie Goof (continuity error): As Bourne is driving out of the parking garage in the police car, the car's headlights are on then off then on again in successive shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Jason is across the street in New York watching Vosen and Landy, Vosen places the Blackbriar casebook in his briefcase twice. First he places it in when we see him from Jason's view, and again right after when we see the close up (through the binocular).
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the Waterloo scene, Bourne walks from right to left but an upshot shows a camera rotating left to right, obviously missing him. However, on the next shot we can see on a monitor an image of Bourne buying a cell phone from a shop.
Movie Goof (continuity error): As Pamela Landy is reviewing Jason Bourne's Treadstone file, we see a report on Bourne's assassination of Vladimir Neski in Berlin. In The Bourne Supremacy, Nicky Parsons insists that Bourne never worked for Treadstone in Berlin and that the Neski job is "not in your file;" thus it should not exist for Landy to read.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): At the end of the movie when Jason jumps off the roof , he would have to make a very super jump to land in the east river. 451 E. 71st is over a 1/10th of a mile from the east river. It is located at the corners of E.71st and York ave.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the Port Authority Bus Terminal garage, Bourne is confronted by an NYPD car. The Port Authority has its own police force, so it should have been a PAPD car.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the Moscow militia chasing scene, the letters DPS (in Russian) can be seen on a big van. DPS means "highway patrol". They wouldn't be chasing a foreigner on a train station. Train stations throughout Russia have their own militia.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The cuts on Jason, especially over the left eye, appear and disappear following the police car crash.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When the Spanish police stop the American CIA operatives in the street as Jason and Nicki leave the Madrid training facility, the police are heard yelling "Hande Hoch" ("hands up") in German, not in Spanish or English.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As Jason looks over the paper while riding the train near the beginning of the movie, we see the story he is reading. It reads, in part, "His code name was Jason Bourne, but he had many identities, each one seemingly more deadly then the next." This is a case of then/than confusion... it should read "than the next". It should however be noted that the newspaper in question, "The Guardian", used to be notorious in the UK (in the days of manual typesetting) for its spelling mistakes, leading to its nickname of "The Grauniad". It is just conceivable that this is a nod to this reputation.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Jason is looking for "Sewell & Marbury", the Madrid address shows "334 Calle Norte". In Spain (and the rest of Europe) they would have written "Calle Norte 334".
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): As Jason is reading The Guardian on the Eurostar train, the text of story he's reading contains a double dash ("--"). This form of punctuation is not used in British typesetting, the spaced en dash (" - ") being preferred.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When running around a busy corner in the streets of Tangier, a bystander can be seen taking a photo of Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) with his cell phone.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the NYC car chase you can see leafless, brown trees in the background while the bird's view of NYC shows a green central park.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the end of The Bourne Supremacy, when Jason is talking on the phone with Pamela Landy (and subsequently walking through the streets of New York), it is clearly summer time, with the trees in full bloom and people in short-sleeve shirts. During the middle of The Bourne Ultimatum (when this scene is re-shot as a significant part of Ultimatum's plot structure), it is now suddenly winter, with Pamela Landy having to wear a heavy coat, gloves, and a scarf outside, and there is clearly snow on the ground.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the chase scene where Jason Bourne is in the police cruiser, his rear bumper changes position after it has been substantially damaged. In one shot, the bumper is dented but still intact. In another shot, the bumper is hanging off the back of the car. This change happens several times.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the first part of the movie, in his office, Ross has long sideburns. But soon after receiving Bourne's call, when he is at Waterloo station his sideburns grow smaller.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Bourne types the bank name in the google-bar, the CAPS-lock function of the computer is still on, but lowercase letters appear on the screen
Movie Goof (continuity error): Wrong gun used in one shot. When Bourne is confronting Dr. Hirsch toward the end of the movie, the handgun he threatens the doctor with changes between shots. Initially, he holds a covered-hammer design pistol (possibly a Glock) to the doctor's forehead, but later the weapon is replaced with what appears to be a Sig Sauer P229 (an open hammer design). The gun used in the flashback sequence depicting his original induction into Treadstone is the Glock.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When the Operation Blackbriar people is searching the meaning of 4/15/71, one of the staff says "zip code for Varney, Kentucky" but his screen locks on a South America map outlining Peru.
Movie Goof (factual errors): At Waterloo Station in London you hear Bourne instruct Simon Ross to go the bus stop and stand near the man with the hooded top. The bus that is approaching a No. 43 that runs from Friern Barnet to London Bridge. This bus goes nowhere near to Waterloo Station.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Bourne goes into the training facility, it is light outside. He is told he has 3 minutes before security arrives. After he is done in the facility and jumps into the river, it is night (not even dusk).
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The Chevrolet Impala police car driven by Jason Bourne executes sudden slides and, on several occasions, is shown to "lock" the front or rear brakes and wheels. All Impala police vehicles are equipped with anti-lock brakes, which would make this behavior impossible.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Pamela Landy is examining the file of Vladimir Neski his name is written as "Vlademir" when it should be "Vladimir".
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Landy is reviewing Bourne's file, specifically with regards to his "conditioning" administered by Dr. Hirsch, the word 'chief' is misspelled as 'cheif' in one of the documents.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the scene where Bourne drives the car off of the roof, he hot wires the vehicle which would be impossible without using equipment to bypass the factory security first. Otherwise the vehicle's fuel pump would be disabled.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Nicky Parsons is escaping from Desh in Tangiers, she walks past a red ladder twice in subsequent shots.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): The Eurostar train taking Bourne to London is actually traveling east towards Folkestone, but the shadows show the shot was taken from the north.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In Nicky Parsons' first scene, confronting Bourne, the right side of her bangs change positions in every shot from over her eye, behind her ear and just hanging freely.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Bourne is checking Daniels' Madrid office, the calendar, in Spanish, reads January 10. The montage cuts to the CIA office in New York where the Empire State Building top is lit all in green. These colors are reserved for holidays such as St. Patrick's day. The color scheme for January 10 is all white lights.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): In London we clearly see a car with a license plate beginning LT56 indicating that the vehicle was first registered between September 2006 and February 2007 - after the time in which the film is supposed to take place.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Most fax machines scan before sending. All Vosen had to do was punch cancel and the fax would not be sent. In fact, as he enters the room the fax can be heard to make the first beep of the sending tone, indicating that it was only just beginning to try and send the fax. (However, being a high up member of management in his 50s or so, it is entirely possible that Vosen has no idea how to work a fax machine and so might think it had already sent. Also the model of fax machine scans with the pages facing down so he would not see what was scanned until the pages came out. If they were put in with face up she would be scanning blank paper if there was nothing on the back.)
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Landy checks Bourne's file his blood type is listed as A positive. When Hirsch hands Bourne his dog tags from when he changed his identity his blood type is listed as O negative.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): (At 00:12.35) There is an overhead shot of a Eurostar train. The shadow of the helicopter passes over the left of the picture.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Bourne shoots the guy on the chair in the hard surface Training Center room no-one is wearing ear defenders and no-one flinches at the reports.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Character "Neal Daniels" has his first name spelled both accepted ways: Neal and Neil. In the scenes where he's being tracked on the computer it's Neal; later, while Pam flips through some CIA papers, it's Neil.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the fight between Bourne and Desh the sink in the bathroom becomes dislodged from the wall. At the very end of the scene the sink has miraculously been reattached.
Movie Goof (miscellaneous): Stuntman 'Dominic Preece (I)' is credited twice in the credits.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the Waterloo scene, right before Jason tells Simon Ross to tie his shoe, Ross's bag can be seen over his left shoulder. When he kneels down to "tie his shoe," his bag is over his right shoulder. When he gets up again, the bag is again over his left shoulder.