Danny Butterman: What do you think?
Nicholas Angel: Well, I wouldn't argue that it wasn't a no holds barred, adrenaline fueled thrill ride. But, there is no way you can perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.
After Angel gets shot in the vest, you get a good closeup of his bandoleer of shotgun shells. You can see the gold paint rubbed off on the primer side of the cartridges, revealing the red plastic underneath. You can also see that the end of the round either just has paper stuffed into it or is completely empty. A real shotgun round will have a brass cap/primer and the end will either be folded completely over (like the shutter of a camera) or show a rifled slug inside. See more...
There are brief cameos at the start of the film by Peter Jackson as Bad Santa, who stabs Nicholas, and Garth Jennings as the Crackhead who holds hostages. Later, Cate Blanchett appears as Janine, who is hidden behind a surgical mask, and from whom Nicholas is estranged. And the film's director, Edgar Wright, is seen as the store employee pushing the cart when Nicholas walks towards the manager's office. See more...
starring Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Martin Freeman, Simon Pegg (add more)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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When Nick Frost and Simon Pegg fire the shotguns during the shootout at the end, the rounds cause a large hole in the people they hit. Shotguns fire lots of small lead balls, which spread over a large distance, so at the distance at which they shoot, wouldn't cause this large hole. [Shotguns can be loaded with solid slugs as well as shot pellets. A slug from a shotgun would leave a single big hole.]
Corrected by Captain Defenestrator
After the gunfight in the pub, Denny is shown with a single barrel shotgun in his hands (close up) and a round of ammunition to load in it. A second later when the shotgun gets racked, the hand is wearing a glove when it wasn't before. [It's not Denny's hand that is racking the shotgun, it is one of the other officers.]
Corrected by Duff "King of Beers" Mckagan
When Nick Frost fires his gun into the air rather than at his father, he fires until the gun is empty and continues to pull the trigger. However, the slide never locked back, as a real empty firearm would. [Actually, the slide does lock back. He keeps firing and the gun isn't emptied until the weapon is no longer in the shot (so you can't see the slide lock back). When they switch to the wide shot and Danny gets up, you can see that the slide has in fact locked back, signaling the gun is empty, just as it should.]
In the scene where Nicholas and Danny are talking in the pub, Nicholas says that he missed his father's funeral. Later on in the film, his father comes in on the gunfight. You can tell that he is his father because he says, "Nicholas, my son." [Try actually paying attention when you watch a film. (1) Nicholas says that he missed his girlfriend's father's funeral, not his own father's, (2) they're at Danny's house when he says it, not in the pub, and (3) the person addressing Angel during the gunfight is the town's vicar, a profession that would often use "my son" or "my daughter" as a term of address, in much the same way as they are often addressed informally as "father" - it's a term implying affection and respect and bears no connotations of a familial relationship in this context.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
After Danny Butterman gets shot, he's lying on the floor, and soon after the mine detonates and the Police station explodes. When Nick goes to find Danny, he finds him on top of brick rubble, which would be impossible, as he was on the floor, and should be under the brick rubble. [It's entirely possible that during the explosion he was lifted off the floor, got tumbled around and ended up on top of the bricks.]
When Danny and Nick stop to pick up the swan, Nick opens the passenger door and you can hear the bonging noise of the door open alarm. Its the only time we hear it when it should in fact be constant, because the drivers door is missing, and the car would interpret that as the door being open. [Given that the driver's door was torn off, it's entirely possible that the sensor was damaged in some fashion and thus the alarm did not go off.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Danny and Nicholas are at the scene of the traffic collision, James Reaper arrives, says "Nasty way to go" and leaves. Danny and Nicholas then discuss the proper terminology and another car briefly appears to the right of the screen. There is then a cut to Simon Skinner's Jaguar convertible, definitely not the car we saw before. [There was a steady procession of cars driving past the accident scene. Not all the cars stopped to talk to the officers. Reaper stops to talk, then a couple of cars go through the scene, then Skinner shows up in the Jag. No mistake here.]
When the "37 year old underage drinker" is in the bar and being told to leave by Nicholas, he has no visible marks on his face. Later in the police station, he has cuts on his face. [There's a gap in time between the pub and the police station. more than enough time for anything to have happened on the way to the police station, including a scuffle with the other detainees, or even other police.]
Simon Skinners gloves disappear when he is going to be arrested. [Skinner is not wearing gloves at all throughout the scene.]
Corrected by Duff "King of Beers" Mckagan
Outside the flower shop when Sergeant Angel first sees the hooded person, he throws his baton at the window breaking the glass. We then see Sergeant Angel jumping through the same window breaking the glass yet again. [Quite right that Nicholas throws his baton at the pane of glass, but only part of the glass actually shatters. When he runs through he breaks the rest of the pane. If necessary, view it in slow motion.]
Corrected by Rikki
When Nicholas is at the firing range after he shoots down the six figures it goes to a larger view and the figures are standing again. [It can be seen in the first shot of the booth as Nicholas and Danny approach it that there are two of the figure boxes visible, one in the centre, one on the right, with what appears to be the frame of a third box on the left behind the doctor. The box seen with the standing figures immediately after Nicholas shoots is on the left hand side of the booth (the one previously obscured), while, from where the doctor is looking, Nicholas shot at the central box.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
During the gun battle in the supermarket, the cops fire multiple rounds at the two butchers who take cover behind, of all things, a glass display case. The glass never shatters. [If it doesn't shatter then that means that the bullets didn't hit the glass. Don't see how that's a mistake, cops miss their shots all the times in movies.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
In the car chase towards the end of the film the police car in the village gets its driver door smashed off. Later on in the same chase scene, the car door comes and goes. [The driver's side door is hit by Frank's car and stays off during the rest of the chase. Danny's side of the car is hardly ever shown and when it is, the door is missing.]
Throughout the film, Sgt. Angel wears a flat cap when he is on patrol with Butterman, whether in car or on foot patrol. Butterman always wears a beat helmet. In reality, the sgt. should wear a beat helmet too when on patrol with Danny. Only once you reach the rank of inspector do you always wear a flat cap. Foot patrol = beat helmets (even for sgts) Car patrol = flat caps (even for pcs. Considering Angel is a top non-rule breaking cop, I would think he would stick to regulations. Obviously the makers wanted to distinguish the two appearances to show the difference between the characters. [Not necessarily. I'm a policeman and PCs and sergeants sometimes wear flat hats on foot patrol. There's no specific rule as such, so Nick Angel isn't flouting the regulations.]
Corrected by Andy
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