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so which parts or events are true and not true in this movie?


i really enjoyed the movie but at the start it says events have been altered or made fiction. please can somebody kindly explain the which parts are fiction or not.

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A tall order - in Lovefilm it's described as 'Inspired by ...', while in IMBd it's 'Based on ...'
I don't know if the UK gov has ever commented, and the main character's version (i.e. the inspiration or basis for the film) will inevitably be self-serving...

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For starters he didn't get shot in Canada, the shooting happened in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside in North East England

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I dont think the leap was correct either...

In real life it was a 3 floor drop landing on grass and not a 6 floor drop onto concrete as in the film

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