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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When the young Snake-eyes comes into the kitchen, which seems to be stocked with a very modern oven and fridge, it is pouring rain outside. When the quick fight is stopped, his clothes are completely dry and just the hair wet.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the Baroness's attempted theft of the nanites near the beginning of the film, the military convoy with Duke and Ripcord is seen using civilian H2 Hummers instead of military Humvees.
  
  
• Continuity: The scar on Duke's cheek changes size throughout the film. This is particularly visible in the beginning where it is quite long and end where it is a lot smaller.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: G.I. Joe agents are immune to fire as in flashback, Duke is almost in the doorway of a house when it explodes and only walks away with a few cuts. Later, when the ICBMs are launched, none of the Joes suffers any heat burns or effect of the thrust despite standing within a few meters of one of the missiles.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Cobra plane lands at the Snow Base, the engines do not kick up any snow, nor does the thrust melt the snow directly under the jets.
  
  
• Factual errors: The plane Ripcord uses to shoot down the missile over Moscow is too slow to have caught up with the missile over Washington D.C. The plane is reported to have a top speed of Mach 6, which translates to approximately 4600 miles per hour. It is approximately 4800 between the two cities, but he has only 15 minutes to reach Washington - clearly not enough time for him to make it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Scarlett is fighting Ana in the invisible suit, she's not wearing any gloves. But when turning on the invisibility of the suit, her hands disappear as well.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Joes are attacking McCullen's lair underneath the polar ice cap, there is a shot of Heavy Duty driving one of the small underwater attack vessels where his earring is on the right ear instead of his left.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Baroness took warheads and was being chased by Duke in the wooded area, the case switches between her left and right hand during the scene.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Scarlett makes the suggestion that the aircraft Ripcord pilots needs verbal commands in the Celtic language. The Celts were a group of tribal societies that spread over much of western Europe, and consequently the original proto-Celtic language split into several different local languages. However given that Destro is Scottish, Scarlett could've easily narrowed it down to Goidelic Celtic, which is the root of the modern Scottish Gaelic language. If the Celtic didn't work, modern Gaelic would've been an obvious alternative.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the infiltration of the MARS base, Snake Eyes crosses a corridor lined with pressure plates by walking on his fingertips after Scarlett says anything "larger than a quarter" will set them off. Pressure plates, as their name suggests, are triggered by the weight measured over a defined area, not its size alone. Even on his fingertips, all of Snake Eyes' weight would be placed on the plates, and trigger them. In fact, the pressure would increase measured from the fingers, since though the weight is the same, the fingertips would have less area than the feet. As in snow vehicles, a solution is to increase the area of contact, so the weight is distributed over that area with less pressure on each plate
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Duke was proposing in his dress blues, you can clearly see he has a beard (goatee) this is strictly forbidden as beards (unless one has a medical waiver) are not authorized while in uniform in the American armed forces.
  
  
• Continuity: Durring the chase in Paris the enemies H2 is struck with a rocket and is thrown many feet into the air. At one point a fight ensues with a person hanging onto the outside of the vehicle and the driver hits a truck to end it. Many of catastrophic damages occur to the H2 but later in the same scene the car is in immaculate condition.
  
  
• Continuity: When Storm Shadow boards the plane in Paris he is wearing his all white civilian style clothes, while sitting on the plane back to the cobra base we see him wearing his white ninja outfit (complete with swords), when he lands we see him get off the plane and he is back in his civilian clothes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Although Scotland and France were allies in 1641, the charge against McCullen was selling arms to enemies of the crown, with no other specifics given.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Throughout the movie Duke wears a goatee. While this may be acceptable for some US Special Operations Soldiers in combat zones it is prohibited in garrison environments, especially in a dress blue uniform at a formal function.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the self-destruct destroys the ice above the Cobra snow base, the ice sinks into the water thereby destroying the base. Ice does not sink in water. It would just float on top as is proved by ice flows and icebergs. However, the interior of the ice was part of the underwater base, containing numerous rooms, passageways, hangars, and elevator shafts all constructed out of metal, which would have added considerable weight and caused the ice structures to sink once they began breaking apart.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Early on Destro states that "You've tossed the caber out of the park!" in congratulation. In reality caber tossing is judged on skill and precision rather than distance. Tossing a caber out the park would likely result in a very poor score.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Paris chase they are 2 km away from the Eiffeltower when the Joes report the area is being evacuated. When they finally arrive at the tower you do not notice a thing about it and the area beneath the tower is crowded.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the scene where the nanomites are being shown to the NATO command, one of the soldiers in the audience has a laptop which is only open to the Windows Log In screen. However this screen is also presented if the user presses a key after a password-protected screen saver has been triggered.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ripcord jumps through the train in Paris, he has a perpendicular trajectory inside, as if the train would be still, instead of an oblique one, as it should inside a moving train.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Rex and Duke are in East or Eastern Africa, you can clearly see snow capped mountains in the background.
  
  
• Factual errors: While in Kyrgyzstan, Duke and crew were headed towards Ganci. The USAF officially changed the name to Manas Air Base in 2002/2003. Originally named Ganci Air Base in honor of a 9/11 NYC Fire Chief who died in the towers. Official US policy dictates that only bases within the US be named after people and bases overseas are named after local towns/geographical locations. This may not hold true for older bases.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In all scenes where young Storm Shadow is talking, allegedly in Japan and in Japanese, he in fact speaks Korean.
  
  
• Continuity: In the climactic undersea battle, in an early scene Heavy Duty has a co-pilot in the Shark, sitting in the seat behind him. In a later scene, several minutes later, he's in a craft built for one.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the underwater battle, when one of the SHARCs is hit by a missile, the pilot gets flung out screaming. You can't scream when you are underwater.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Baroness is running to the Elevator and when she gets into it, there is no blood on her face. It later re-appears as she is moving up in the Elevator.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene at the G.I. Joe headquarters were the warheads get stolen Duke grabs a Auto Assault-12 (AA-12) shotgun, its a full auto 12 gauge shotgun, but when he shoots it it sounds like an M16 or other type of assault rifle, way to fast and less powerful than the real thing.
  
  
• Errors in geography: It is obvious that most of the Paris chase scene is actually not filmed in Paris, but in the Czech Republic. The streets and buildings have no resemblance to Paris whatsoever, but is typical of Central/Eastern European.
  
  
• Continuity: When Storm Shadow and the Baroness are in the Joe's headquarters, Storm Shadow is stopped from slicing Ripcord with his Katana by Snake Eyes. Snake eyes runs in between and while holding his Katana in his right hand stops it with his handle. The next scene shows them blade to blade and Snake Eyes holding his Katana with both hands.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cobra closes the door to the enclosure that holds the king cobra snake, it is clear that it is empty and no snake, CGI or otherwise is there.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the underwater chase, the camera eventually cuts to a shot of Duke from behind as he is piloting the craft, and he says "I'm not lettin' those two get away." However, you can see Duke's reflection in the glass, and his lips are not moving when he speaks.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The CGI tram ramming the Hummer during the Paris chase scene, although loosely based on the Paris "Tramway des Maréchaux", looks nothing like the actual tram. However, even though the Tramway looks nothing like the actual Paris tram, keep in mind the movie does take place in the future. Things do change.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Paris chase, Baroness activates controls to fire missiles at Duke and Ripcord. The controls show 4 missiles on each side on the vehicle, but the FX shot of the truck exterior shows only 3 missiles per side.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Duke and Ripcord are running behind the Baroness's Black hummer, they fire the Gatling gun from their left hand, when previously it is shown as being fitted onto their right hand and the missiles are fitted on their left hands. However, the Gatling gun is shown as being a separate unit attached to the suit, as though there may be many possible attachments for the suit to accommodate various mission types. It is entirely possible the Gatling gun and missile launcher could be equipped to either gauntlet.
  
  

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