There is a scene where a jet flies over a city which the movie states that is Bogota, Colombia. But those who have been around South America will notice that this scene shows Quito in Ecuador, not Bogota. This doesn't only happen in that scene, but also at the airport scene where the jet lands. You can notice a couple of Ecuatoriana 707s as well as some other Ecuadorean airliners in the background. Also, if this were El Dorado airport in Bogota, you wouldn't see Pichincha mountain, first of all, and secondly Pichincha wouldn't appear so close to the airport as it does if this were to be Bogota. See more...
There is a scene where Harrison Ford compares the Colombian and Mexican food, and he finishes saying "I hate Mexican food". In the version of the movie dubbed to Spanish this phrase is changed to "American food, junk food". This happens because this movie was dubbed in Mexico. See more...
Directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Anne Archer, Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe (add more)
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At the end of the movie where Jack Ryan is testifying to the Senate Oversight Committee, he is called to the stand as John Ryan. [John is Ryan's given name. "Jack" is simply the name he prefers to go by, and it is a common nickname for people named John.]
Corrected by Cubs Fan
At the beginning of the movie the Coast Guard is preparing to board the hijacked boat. Two crew members run forward to man the gun and there is a front shot of the gunner running forward where he is wearing a full orange jacket. In the next shot, he is at the gun and he is wearing a sleeveless life preserver. [I thought this was a mistake too, until I watched it again in slow motion. 3 crew members can be seen exiting a door on the boat. Two men in sleeveless life preservers take a position on what appears to be a .50 cal machine gun (seen in the wide shot), while a third man in a full orange jacket mans an M60 machine gun (seen from a frontal close up shot, but not in the wide shot from the side of the craft). These are two separate locations on the boat, showing two separate weapons being manned. The only mistake is that of the 3 men shown exiting the hatch of the boat; two are wearing full orange jackets and one wearing a life preserver, instead of the other way around.]
In the scene where Jack Ryan is printing out the evidence before it is deleted, the printer indicates out of paper. Ryan rips open the drawer, sees that there is no paper, turns around, grabs some, then shoves it into the printer...that already has paper in it. [It is a common fault with feed tray printers - they read the tray as empty when there are still ten of so sheets of paper left. The only way around it is to reload the tray, as Ryan does.]
In the scene where Jack Ryan meets Ernesto Escabedo, when Jack tells him to play the tape recorder, the play button is on the long side of the tape player. However, when they play the tape to Felix Cortez, and when Jack tricks him in the woodshed, the play button is on the top of the tape player. [In all three instances the play button is on the side of the tape player. When Ernesto plays the tape for Felix he puts his thumb on the top of the player, but his finger is reaching around to the side to press "play". And in the woodshed it is quite clear that the buttons are on the side.]
Later the convoy he is riding in goes down an alley and the Colombians begin blowing up the convoy vehicles. At least one more vehicle is blown up/and or disabled than were in the convoy. [The vehicle Harrison Ford is initially in is hit, but the rocket only blows up a chunk of the vehicle's front. The scene cuts away and it could easily be mistaken that the car was blown up.]
What Harrison Ford is desperately trying to print the evidence, he's out of paper, grabs some, slams it into the printer, and the sheet starts printing, but the paper tray wasn't shut properly, so it shouldn't print... [Do you think they built a special printer for the film? It's a standard PC laserjet printer. It looks like the printer tray is open, but it is really closed.]
When the laser guided bomb is dropped on the cartel meeting the nose of the bomb is painted blue. This colour is used to designate a training or inert round. This weapon could not explode. (cf blue sidewinder missiles in TopGun) [In the book, the bomb is painted blue because the jet carrying it is supposed to be on a training mission. It then just makes a slight detour and drops the bomb and gets back before anyone notices it is gone. It is an actual war shot they just painted it blue.]
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