Goofs for
Rambo (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

• Crew or equipment visible: During the ending gun battle scene when the camera switches to view the right side of En-joo (Tim Kang) you see a shot of the camera equipment behind him. (This is when he climbs up the steps to the upper tower for cover and better shooting position).
  
  
• Factual errors: The "Tallboy" bomb was never used in the pacific theatre of operations. It was designed to smash German concrete structures and could only be dropped by a British Lancaster bomber, which didn't operate in Burma.
  
  
• Factual errors: When John Rambo is passing by the empty boat that had previously attacked his party, the motor is clearly not running in one shot since the front pulley is not turning (23:54).
  
  

• Continuity: In the final gun battle sequence, Rambo uses the jeep mounted gun to fire on the driver, and splatters blood all over the bullet shield. When he gets off of the machine gun, the bullet shield is mysteriously clean.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Rambo is going to lead the tracking dogs away from the girl and Schoolboy, Schoolboy’s hat brim keeps changing how its bent in between shots. It changes from peaked to flat to a round shape.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Rambo's boat has a hidden inboard motor at the stern, you can see the water churning from under the boat in views of the rear of the boat.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Rambo is using the .50 caliber machine gun in the final action scene, it runs out of bullets and makes several clicking sounds to indicate it is empty. The gun would only click empty once since the gun's action only operates by firing, thus cycling the round and cocking the action. Only an electric gun like an air soft AEG could cycle in a manner that it would click repeatedly.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the film when Sarah finds Michael, she looks over at Rambo and we see blood splattered on her head. In the next shot she looks over at School Boy and the blood is mysteriously gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the final shoot out Myint fires a m/86 LAW although the weapon is still on safe and he has not got his finger on the trigger. He also holds the weapon totally wrong and looks over the sights. Especially funny since the instructions are printed on the tube and visible in the shot.
  
  
• Continuity: After the final gun battle, Sarah leaves her position with the sniper, and we see her move quite a distance away as the sniper lifts his rifle. As they cut to a different angle of the sniper relaxing/packing up, we can clearly see Sarah’s head/hair in the lower right corner of the screen, only a foot or two away from the sniper.
  
  
• Factual errors: The "Tallboy" bomb that is shown in the movie appears only six to ten feet long. A real tallboy is a 21 foot bomb. They also show a rounded end cap on the back of the bomb, whereas the tallboy had a pointed cap after the fins.
  
  
• Continuity: When one man moves to the tower to get a better shot he is seen using an AKS-47 with the stock completely folded, in the next scene he is firing a basic AK-47 with a fixed buttstock.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the beginning map scene, CALCUTTA is clearly spelled CALCUTA.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie Rambo kills the last bad guy by stabbing him in the stomach with his knife and slicing him open, yet a moment later when Rambo kicks him down the hill, there isn't one drop of blood on his knife.
  
  

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