While one must acknowledge that the latest edition of the James Bond franchise, Skyfall, has done extremely well at the box office, British newspaper are screaming with news items about the goof-ups that can be easily seen in the film.

Some of the most obvious ones are: in a scene James B puts a transmitter in his right pocket and later on takes it out from the left pocket; in the beginning of a train sequence, Agent 007 is wearing a particular kind of shoes which magically change into slip-ons between scenes; the continuity of the shades he’s wearing is not taken care of, etc.

Come to think of it, perhaps critics fail to understand that this time round James Bond is wearing an extra hat of a magician.

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