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These people can't count - 8 and 7 shots from a revolver?


On two separate instances in the film, Bourne fires way too many shots from the revolver he picks up from the guy in the elevator in the Swiss bank. In the first sequence as soon as he gets the gun, he fires 8 shots without reloading. And don't tell me he reloaded without our seeing it - he had no gun and no bullets on him to do so.

At the end of the movie, the same thing happens, and this time it's 7 shots. Not only that, but the gun itself goes from being black metal to silver chrome and back to black again. This movie desperately needed a continuity person. That's just friggin' lame and should never happen.





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Yeah. Welcome to all of those old movies where the good guy has an unlimited supply of ammo. It always bothered me, but I guess people didn't really care much about that kind of realism.

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Old movies had a more involving story, so people didn't care about counting bullets.

They also didn't text in the theater.



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