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The Dark Knight (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

• Continuity: The cooling ducts on the side of Bruce Wayne's Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 are closed at the beginning of the scene, then open. They're motorized, but they take time to open and close.
  
  
• Continuity: Det. Ramirez holds a cup of coffee with two hands, then one hand, then two hands again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the hospital, when The Joker places the gun in Harvey's hand and points it at his own head, he cocks the hammer. When the camera faces Harvey, The Joker's finger is over the hammer. When it's facing The Joker, it's not there.
  
  

• Continuity: When Batman beats The Joker in the holding cell, The Joker's hands change position as Batman pins him to the wall. When the camera faces The Joker, his hands are gripping Batman's arms from below, with the fingers pointing up. When the camera faces Batman, The Joker's hands are holding Batman's arms from above, with his fingers pointing down.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the final shot, several non-illuminated lights are at the end of the ramp. They are Bebee Night Lights, which were used to light most of the night chase scene.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the opening shot, the the edge of the helicopter is reflected in the building, on the left.
  
  
• Continuity: When Batman is interrogating The Joker, we can see The Joker's suspenders on his left shoulder. After cutting to Batman, the suspenders are back under his vest.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Gordon shuts the heavy iron door as he walks into the interrogation cell to question The Joker. The reflection in the mirror shows the door swinging open again. That means the door was unlocked, and it's much lighter than it looks.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Gotham General Hospital is the administration building for the old Brach's Candy factory in Chicago. When the building is going up in flames, and the aerial shot swings around to the one side, you can see that windows in the back are different, and the interior is gutted.
  
  
• Continuity: In Hong Kong Harbor, the seaplane lands right next to Bruce Wayne's yacht, leaving a large wake. In the next scene, when Bruce and Alfred are talking on the yacht, the wake has completely disappeared.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The school bus backs up into the bank hard, and goes almost halfway into the building. When The Joker drives it out, the bus has no scratches or dents.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bruce picks up one of the gauntlets, the blades are closed. Bruce opens the blades and accidentally fires them off. When he puts it back in the drawer, the blades are back on the gauntlet, and closed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Immediately after the Joker's "magic trick," part of the table is covered in dimples, from the actor repeatedly stabbing it with the pencil.
  
  
• Continuity: After the Joker shoves the grenade into the bank manager's mouth, he removes his mask with his right hand. In the next shot, he takes off his mask with his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: During the bank heist, the Joker isn't wearing makeup on his eyelids. When he removes the mask, he has black makeup over his eyelids.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the holding cell, when Batman smashes the Joker against the wall, a camera with a blue LED/LCD screen and two people from the crew reflect on the right mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the bank heist, as the Joker climbs aboard the bus, the body of the driver he just shot disappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: You can see the camera clearly after the hospital blows up, when the Joker climbs inside the bus.
  
  
• Plot holes: When the Joker is arrested, the police do everything they can to identify him-- except wiping off his makeup.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the SWAT truck is thrown to the river, the shadow of the helicopter camera can be seen reflecting in the street border.
  
  
• Continuity: Batman rips a hole in the right side of the van while chasing Scarecrow. A few moments later, when he prepares to jump on its roof, the van is still intact.
  
  
• Continuity: When the pin is pulled on the gas bomb in the bank manager's mouth it pops out and stops on the ground. However the pin is pulled out by the bus leaving and should continue to trail the bus.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Joker drives the bus into the line of school buses, you can hear children screaming and cheering. However, if you look carefully, the bus is empty.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Batman jumps from the spiral parking lot ramp onto the scarecrow's van, Batman is seen falling as the van appears to his left under him. He should land on the van facing it's left side - but in the cut scene directly afterward he lands facing the same direction as the van.
  
  
• Continuity: During the beginning the movie, the police department is labeled as GCPD. During the chase scene after Harvey turns himself in as Batman, all of the armored vehicles have only GPD on the side of them.
  
  

• Plot holes: SPOILER: When Harvey Dent dies, Gordon tells Batman that Harvey killed five people, including two cops. However, Gordon didn't know what Harvey did after he got out of the hospital. He spent several previous scenes in looking for Harvey.
  
  

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