Bond 24: 10 Skyfall Flaws That Spectre Should Improve Upon

8. Countless Factual & Continuity Errors

Nobody's perfect, and you expect any large scale blockbuster to have a fair amount of continuity errors scattered throughout, most of which you'd probably never notice. Skyfall, however, has become somewhat notorious for the fact that it's near-on packed out with a countless number of continuity errors. So although Skyfall presents itself as a slick, clinical and effortless filmic exercise, beneath the surface there's actually a whole lot of sloppy filmmaking going on. Skyfall was lambasted in the wake of its release for being "strewn with errors," and although said errors - many of which focus on damaged vehicles suddenly finding themselves repaired or items of clothing morphing randomly - there are a few unforgivable instances, too, many of them factual (Bond gets on the tube at Temple underground station and gets off at Westminster, eradicating Embankment - for shame!). So Sam Mendes and his crew really need to concentrate whilst shooting Spectre; you might be able to be forgive that kind of sloppiness once, but twice? No way.
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