Goofs
Continuity: When Tom Scoggins
is thrown into the generator by the shark, electricity
arcs through the water, but Carter Blake and the shark
itself are apparently unaffected by this.
Factual errors: Dr. McAlester
stands on her wetsuit to prevent herself being
electrocuted, however the suit is wet and would therefore
offer no protection whatsoever.
Revealing mistakes: Just after
Jim Whitlock has had his arm bitten off and falls to the
ground, you can see his real elbow coming up from his
back under his shirt.
Continuity: After Preacher is
caught by the shark, he uses his cross to poke the eye of
the shark; in later scenes, the shark's eye is fine.
Factual errors: Carter Blake
rubs the body of a shark back and forth with his bare
hand(s), as if the surface were smooth (as that of a
dolphin). In fact, shark scales are quite rough, and this
kind of petting could cause the hand to bleed. At any
rate, Carter would not be able to pet the shark with as
gentle a motion as he was in the movie.
Revealing mistakes: When
Preacher, the chef, is climbing up on the shelving in the
kitchen to save Bird, you can clearly see the kneepads
under his wet pants.
Continuity: After the crew is
saved in the elevator shaft, they pull up the rope made
of linens. When Blake and Scoggins go back down, the rope
is still hanging there (though one viewer claims they
dropped it back down).
Factual errors: Preach's
lighter works remarkably well, considering how much time
it spends submerged in salt water.
Factual errors: Preacher
striking a metal ax against a metal oven plate most
likely would have sparked an explosion in the flammable
gas.
Factual errors: Sharks can't
swim backwards. It's not a matter of intelligence, but
rather physical impossibility. Their fins are not
flexible like other fish. They can go backwards by
stopping and falling backwards, but the sharks in this
movie clearly don't do that.
Continuity: Near the end of the
movie, Carter is swimming back to the wet lab through
flooded passageways. At the beginning of the swim, his
left shoe is completely untied - you can see both laces
floating. In the next full body shot (where his shoes
show) the shoe is tied again.
Continuity: Carter pries open a
door with a knife that is on a sheath on his leg. The
knife breaks and he throws it away. In the final scene,
when Carter and Preacher are laying on the wreckage, the
knife is clearly visibly back in the sheath on Carter's
right leg.
Plot holes: The shark takes
only 4 or 5 hits to break through a steel door that's
made to withstand tons of water pressure, but it takes 6
or 7 direct hits to try to get through a chain-link fence
at the end and never succeeds. Also, the sharks can break
through metal, but not the glass in the oven where one of
the characters is "hiding."
Continuity: The water in
Aquatica is always waist-high. If these sharks are
supposed to be so huge, there's no way they could
possibly swim through the corridors.
Continuity: When Preacher is
standing on the shelf and reaching for his bird on the
pot, he could easily reach the pot if he clenched his
fingers. In the next shot, the pot is shown from a
different angle and is at least 1 or 2 feet away.
Revealing mistakes: When
Franklin gets eaten, it is apparent that he is a
computer-generated graphic.
Factual errors: When they open
the door to the shaft when being in the docking area,
there is a couple of seconds delay before the water
starts rushing into the room. That would have happened
instantly. This cannot be explained by some
hatch/door/similar collapsing farther up the shaft
because this would have caused an immediate and very
noticeable rush of air into the shaft.
Factual errors: Many times we
are shown people able to close doors even though copious
amounts of water and air are rushing though them. This is
clearly beyond the ability of humans. Their ability to do
so cannot be explained by other devices attached to the
door because those devices would have prevented them from
opening the door in the first place.
Factual errors: When Jim's
stretcher is thrown at the window, due to drag it should
have stopped almost immediately. Also, the motion by the
shark when throwing the stretcher is not sufficient to
create the sudden acceleration away from the shark.
Plot holes: The sharks often
show knowledge that can only be acquired through being
deliberately taught or shown. Even though the sharks
according to the plot are intelligent, there are some
things they simply can't learn on their own, like for
instance the significance of a camera, yet we are seen
how the sharks destroy the cameras on purpose. Another
example is how the sharks supposedly try to flood the
complex in order to sink it. There is no way the sharks,
no matter how intelligent they get, can know that the
compound can be sunk and that they will be able to escape
if they do so.
Revealing mistakes: Numerous
scenes reveal sharks as computer animations due to
motions that simply are not possible under water.
Factual errors: At the end of
the movie when Preacher blows up the last shark, there is
only one wire connected from the battery to the
explosives. For an explosive to detonate, there must be a
complete circuit.
