Goofs

During fight on the train, the dining car has several other diners and waiters, until bad guys appear. Then, mysteriously, everyone disappears.

In the moments after Bond & M's Jaguar XJ is rammed during the drive to stop Denbigh, the rear right side window of the following Land Rover Discovery is shot out as Moneypenny & co escape, showering Q with glass. In the next scene, they pick up M in the same Discovery, but the glass in the window only contains a small bullet hole and the glass is intact.

At the beginning of the train scene, Madeleine is wearing a deep red lipstick. Later when she is kissing Bond, her lips are in their natural nude color.

During the Alpine chase scene the nose cone on the aircraft, a Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander used by Bond is heavily damaged after ramming a vehicle. In following scenes the nose cone appears to be intact.

While in Mexico City, the woman with Bond invites him to her room. As he follows her in, he leaves the door wide open. The next scene shows them standing together with the door shut.

In the train, Bond and Madeleine order dirty martinis (a break from his normal routine), but when the drinks arrive, they are perfectly clear. Dirty martinis contain olive juice, so they would be cloudy. The International Bartenders Association standard recipe requires Olive Juice/brine. The traditional number of olives is that it should be odd, with 5 seen as excessive and 3 the norm.

Lesioning the fusiform gyrus could result in face blindness, but the drill that Blofeld uses goes nowhere near the gyrus - it in fact drills through the mandible and would've entered Bond's mouth. At best doing nothing, at worst giving bond a wicked bad sinusitis or meningitis.

The opening sequence is all a Hollywood cliche. While Mexicans do celebrate Día de Muertos (no 'los' in the name), it's mostly a day where families gather to remember their dead loved ones at home or around a loved one's grave. No gigantic parades or allegory cars like the ones shown in the movie are ever used, nobody gets into costume (save for children in Halloween the night before) and the skeleton imagery used is decidedly European/North American as opposed to the more traditional Catrina. The music is also far more African sounding than any traditional Mexican music. Also an event this big would in real life involve closing streets 20 blocks away and a lot of policemen in riot gear lining the sidewalks.

Thallium poisoning is treatable, notably using Prussian Blue, and if the dosage is so low that you still have weeks to live, there is plenty of time and a good chance for the treatment to succeed. The writers possibly confused the effects with those of ricin or polonium poisoning.

A helicopter requires total concentration of the pilot on the controls. While they do have "autopilots" these primarily work in level flying conditions, not for aerobatics. The system would maintain the level flight operation of the craft.

When Bond attacks the pilot, the craft would have crashed as several times during the flight the pilot releases the flight control levers. This is especially during the climbing portions of the flight.

In the fight scene on the train, a large sliding door is opened in what appears to be a carriage with parcels and train stock. However, in several outside shots of the train, all the carriages are passenger carriages with no sliding doors.

Yet there is an outside shot of the train at 1:25:49 that shows that the last car of the train is indeed a cargo car. There is a single window towards the front of the car and a large sliding door towards the rear.

In Skyfall (2012), M mentions that Silva's name, Tiago Rodriguez, is on the memorial wall in MI6 and how she plans to have it scratched off. When Bond sees the memorial wall at the end of the movie, neither Tiago Rodriguez's name nor his alias Raoul Silva is listed. While this M never got the opportunity to remove it, clearly she's not the only person who knows that his name is there or who might be motivated to remove it. Presumably someone else (eg the new M) has had the name removed.

As Bond and Madeleine are arriving in the Moroccan Desert via train, the Sun can be seen setting on the horizon. In the next scene, the Sun is high in the sky as if it were midday. No, Bond and the girl spend the night together after fighting Hinx at dinner time. The sun is rising to the left and the train is heading south the next morning. Later at midday they are dropped off from the train.

Blofeld shows James Bond and Madeleine a meteorite and states that this is "the very meteorite that made this crater." It may seem that this is impossible as a meteorite is mostly vaporized at the moment of impact because of the tremendous energy which is nearly instantaneously dissipated at the point of impact. This happened at the Meteor Crater in Arizona: a number of people thought they would find an iron mine at the bottom of the crater and came up empty.

However, the explosion can send fragments of the meteorite into the surrounding area. There are chunks of the Barringer meteor that can be viewed at Meteor Crater, but they were found outside the crater.

Mr. White appears alive in the film, though in a cut scene from 'Quantum of Solace', he is killed by Bond. The scene was cut-out it is not considered canonical to the finished film.

On the subtitles for the DVD, the first time Christoph Waltz speaks he is listed as Blofeld, which gives away his identity, as at this point we only know him as Franz Oberhauser.

When Mr. White shoots himself with Bond's gun under his chin no blood appears on the gun or area surrounding table, and no wounds appear on Mr. White when camera gets close for a second.

Bond detonates an explosive so large that it breaks loose the facade on the building across the street and then collapse that entire facade on the building across the street, collapsing its roof and front wall. This explosion, however neither seriously injures Bond, nor does it cover the opposite roof in debris from the explosion. Additionally, despite only being less than 30-40 feet from such a powerful explosion, Bond (who is neither wearing hearing protection, nor body armor) is not deafened, nor injured by the blast.

Bond briefly tussles with the helicopter pilot above the square in Mexico City, causing him to lose control momentarily and the aircraft to spin, after which he resumes his fight with Sciarra.

However, despite the fact that the pilot regains full control, the helicopter continues to spin for many minutes for no apparent reason.

The restaurant car in the Moroccan train seems to be about 50 % wider than the other cars.

When Bond and Madeleine are travelling by train, he decides this is a good time to teach her how to use a firearm. Unknowingly that she is fully aware how to operate a firearm, he tells her it's as easy as to point, aim and squeeze the trigger, then hands over a loaded pistol with a round in the chamber and the safety off.

After Sciarra's funeral, as Bond approaches Lucia we see in the wide shot she is wearing stiletto heels. At the end of their conversation as she turns and walks away we hear the sound of heavy footfalls. There is no way her shoes would make that noise on stone flooring, and no one else within the frame is moving at the time.

When Mr. Hinx says "shoot" his mouth does not move.

When the attack on Cape Town is shown on TV, the news spot consists of two shots of the city, but the second shot is not of Cape Town.

During the car chase in the mountains of Tirol/ Austria you can clearly see the license plates on the cars. Although they show the area code IL (Innsbruck Land) which is in Tirol, there is the federal state emblem of Vienna (Capital and a separate federal state of Austria). Tirol and Vienna are therefor different federal states. Each has a separate emblem and they are not even close/next to each other.

When showing the map for Bond's location in Austria the maps shows the longitude as 15 degrees West. It should be East.

The license plates of the Land Rovers used in the car chase scene are entirely wrong. Not only do they bear the area code IL for Innsbruck-Land (the surrounding area of Innsbruck, the provincial capital of Tyrol) and next to it, inappropriately, the city arms of Vienna which is the federal capital of Austria. Every Tyrolean license plate, however, shows the emblem of Tyrol, a red eagle. Also, the registration numbers are too long. Registration numbers like "IL-62734Z", "IL-48256R" or "IL-25768H" can be seen on the Land Rovers. But after a two letter area code like IL, always a maximum of four numeral characters may follow, closed by one letter. Alternatively three numbers and two letters may follow the area code and the provincial coat of arms.

C states the new national security building is a 24hr operation yet at the end it is completely empty. Regardless, given the new world security system was due to finally go online in a matter of minutes you would have thought at least someone other than C would be in attendance.

Mr White obviously knew the nature and location of L'Americaine. So it makes no sense not to tell Bond directly, rather than saying that his daughter has the information.

The idea of meagering MI5 and M6 together is far from ground-breaking. There has been long interagency control and oversight through the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) which also covers GCHQ, and Defence Intelligence. The idea of a Nine Eyes group isn't new either. There long has been the Five Eyes (FVEY), an anglosphere intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Their various intelligence agencies share data and programmes with each other. There are also other alliances like the Five Eyes Plus, the Nine Eyes and the Fourteen Eyes. Having terrorist groups like SPECTRE gaining access to these shared intelligence data may be likely through hacking or corrupt officers passing secrets.

If Bond wasn't allowed to go on any missions due to him causing an international incident, there seems to be no point of Q giving him an exploding watch.

In the first act a bomb explodes powerful enough to topple two large, multi-story buildings. Yet blocks away, the police don't even react, nor do they stop the huge party in the center of Mexico City.

Everyone pronounces "Marco Sciarra" as Skee-ara, it should be pronounced Shee-arra. In Italian the hard c sound would need a spelling of Schiarra. Although an English speaker might make this mistake, it's absurd when repeated by others, especially by the Italian speakers (such as the Italian priest at the funeral).

In addition to the other firearm handling errors noted here, when Bond is clearing the building near the end, he holds the handgun out in front of him with first one arm then both arms extended. When clearing a building, an experienced person such as Bond would hold the gun in a "ready" position close to his chest so it could not be easily pulled away as he rounded a corner.

In "Dr. No", "M" required James Bond to turn in his 25-calibre Baretta and replaced it with a 7.65 mm Walther PPK.

Bond has continued to use the Walther PPK in subsequent films, including SPECTRE.

In SPECTRE, Bond "racks the slide" (loads a round into the firing chamber) at least twice just before going into action. An agent with Bond's experience would never have done that due to the features of the Walther PPx series, because, by doing so, he would have reduced his shot capacity by one.

In all variants, (PP, PPK, PPK/S, etc.), the weapon has a bullet capacity of "X+1", which means "X" rounds in the magazine and 1 in the chamber, ready to fire. For the PPK in 7.65 mm, the capacity is 7+1, not a large capacity by today's standards, so when Bond would have prepared his PPK well before any need to use it, he would have loaded the magazine with the maximum 7 rounds, racked the slide to put one round in the chamber, removed the magazine, and put in another round to restore a full 8-round capacity. Racking the slide does put the hammer back, making the weapon ready to fire, but when the safety is activated, a metal bar rotates over the firing pin and then allows the hammer to fall forward safely onto that bar, preventing its firing until the safety as moved to the firing position.

Because the PPx series are DA/SA (double-action/single action), and are exceptionally safe when carried with a round in the chamber, hammer down, to go into action, Bond need only move the safety to "fire," pull the trigger double-action for the first shot which cocks the hammer and fires, then each subsequent round would be single-action because the hammer would be back, ready for the next shot.

'C' states he has spoken to the Home Secretary about dissolving the '00 Programme'. MI6 (or Secret Intelligence Service) actually reports to the Foreign Secretary.