Goofs for
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• Continuity: At the end, when Deke shoots Wulfgar for the first time and they show him reacting, he has exactly two symmetric bullet wounds on both shoulders even though he was only shot once.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Deke is firing a revolver at the police target range, the paper target's holes face towards him as if a small explosion went off behind them (squibs). Also the wires that held and were used to detonate the squibs are seen hanging out of the holes. Real police bullets leave small holes in paper targets.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, Deke shoots Wulfgar. Wulfgar falls backwards against a door that opens to the inside. Yet in the next shot you see him outside as if he'd fallen through the door onto the outside stairs. Since the door opens to the inside this is impossible.
  
  

• Continuity: During the subway sequence, the storm door on the last car of the train has a large single pane of glass in some scenes and two smaller panes in other scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: The train is correctly marked as a B train as Deke and Fox chase it down the platform. When Deke prepares to kick out the window, the route sign directly above him is displaying an S.
  
  
• Continuity: The subway train accelerates slowly as Deke and Fox chase it down the platform. However, when they are putting their guns in their holsters, the train is accelerating much faster.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the song "Brown Sugar" plays at the disco, the second verse of the song is heard several times.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Near the start of the tramway situation, DaSilva boards an ATAC copter from a near the East River south of the Queensboro Bridge and the Roosevelt Island tram, at approximately 40th St. The copter is shown lifting off and beginning to head uptown (north) towards the bridge (also known as the "59th Street Bridge", which is north of 40th St.). The next cut is to a camera angle from inside the copter looking forward over DaSilva's shoulder, but the particular area of Roosevelt Island shown on his left is its *southern* end, suggesting that the copter is now coming *from* the north and is heading *south*. In the next cut, DaSilva says "go over the bridge", and the copter approaches it from the south, heading north again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Fox is loading his rifle just before the confrontation at the bus, you can clearly see the crimped ends of the blank rounds he's loading.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the bus Wulfgur is driving begins to accelerate, it would be impossible because the doors are open.
  
  

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