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The 6th Day (2000)

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• Crew or equipment visible: Equipment is visible during an exterior shot (reflection in window) of the truck that Adam and Hank are riding in from Adam's house to his work.
  
  
• Continuity: When the premature clone wakes up, he screams like he has just been shot, yet the neurosync was taken several minutes after the original guy was shot.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Simpal Cindy's eyes close when Gibson tells her to sleep. When he picks her up and brings her to the house, there is a shot of her eyes opened, but it's possible that the eye servos don't lock closed in sleep mode. Sloppy design, but not a goof.
  
  

• Continuity: When Gibson is bringing the 'lower intestines' up to Nu Organ in the red-and-white cooler, he takes off the lid to get his gun. However, during the shot where a female employee walks past and Gibson pauses, you can see that the lid has been replaced without Gibson touching it. The lid is removed again in the next shot.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The memory recorder displays only visions, not thoughts. If it displayed thoughts, the villains would have known that the other Gibson was behind the clone in the helicopter/jet other than by the reflection in the glass. However, this doesn't necessarily mean the thoughts weren't recorded, only that they either chose not to display them or couldn't come up with a good way to display them.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Given that a dog is supposed to eat, it would seem illogical to have the option to make a dog with softer teeth. Since they are selling the dogs to rich people, though, it seems likely they would make whatever people are willing to buy, and if that means the dogs need a special diet, then so be it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The cloning machines are able to duplicate things that are not genetic, like the state of muscle development. This is presumably part of the syncording process.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Adam lands his whisper craft on the roof of the building, a security guard comes out to stop him. Adam provides his clearance to be there by presenting him with the contract he signed earlier in the movie. When the guard looks at it, you can clearly see that none of the lines are filled out.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Helicopters with one rotor could be unstable because of torque, but these use exhaust vents on the left of the tail to counter that.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Talia and Wiley both were re-cloned after they died. However, both of them remember when and how they died; as we've seen, though, the syncording can be made up to a few hours after death if the brain is intact.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Right at the beginning of Drucker's speech about cloning, after Dr. Weir's speech, the audio starts before his mouth starts to move. In the very next shot of Drucker, the audio and video are correct again.
  
  
• Continuity: During Dr. Weir's press conference at the beginning, Drucker puts the microphone down twice in successive shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film, when the two Adams dive for the departing helicopter, the second Adam's face is clearly visible and is clearly not the same person.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Hank is in the virtual chair, the reverse angle shots show his lips moving, but no words are heard.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of blood on Drucker while cloning himself varies inconsistently between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Adam breaks Wiley's neck outside the police station, his "corpse" can clearly seen to be breathing on the ground just before the cut away.
  
  
• Continuity: Nearly every exterior shot alternates between raining and not.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gibson enters Replacement Technologies with the 'lower intestines' cooler, the guard asks if he can view the contents. He tears off part of the tape when Gibson mentions the flesh-eating virus. In the next shot, the tape is still intact. When Gibson picks up the cooler, the tape is loose again, and Gibson reattaches it.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Adam is grabbing on to the fence hanging down the cliff, you can see a karabiner attached to the fence.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gibson wedges the chair under the door handle in the holding cell, the seat cushion is facing up. The same is the case in a later scene when Marshall tries to force the door open. After Gibson escapes through the screen, the cops break in, sending the chair flying. In this shot, the seat is positioned cushion down.
  
  
• Continuity: In the car chase, Gibson's car loses a rim, which is visible in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: After Adam has broken the TV screen in the police station, he leaves the room behind the screen and shuts the door. When Marshall and the police officers come in a few seconds later, they look through the broken screen and the door is open. In the next shot, you see Adam running away from the door, and now it's closed again.
  
  

• Plot holes: SPOILER: Near the end of the movie, it is revealed that when Gibson is cloned, they recreated the shaving cut he received that morning. However, it is never revealed how they knew about this cut. Drucker had no previous plans to clone Gibson, and the clone was created using surreptitiously obtained DNA and synchording techniques, which would not have provided information of any scars he had suffered. Since the scar is under his chin, it is extremely unlikely that any security cameras would have recorded it (security camera views are shown, and despite the futuristic setting and secretive nature of the operation, they don't seem to be any more advanced than modern cameras), and since the cloners claim they only had 2 hours to replace Gibson with his clone, it is extremely unlikely they had the time to go through his memories to find out about the scar and recreate it.
  
  

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