Goof Guide
No movie's perfect, all have their own little goofs, so here are Serenity's:
- When the Operative is reviewing Mal's file, Mal's first name is first shown spelled "Malcom", then "Malcolm".
- After Jayne passes to Simon the Blue Sun jug of booze, and Simon picks up to drink, the label has rotated away from the viewer.
- A security camera feed shows Mal and Jayne sitting down at a table with Fanty and Mingo before they enter the bar (before the dialog between Mal and Kaylee).
- The wide angle shot of the security camera's feed when Mal and Jayne first enter the bar shows a time code stamp which is repeated when the shot is zoomed in for a closer look.
- In the very last scene when River and the Captain are flying the ship, Mal presses a button causing it to light up. In the next shot the light is off, and in the next shot it is back on again.
- At the start of Dr. Caron's holographic recording, there is a noticeable delay before she says, "...and you can see, it isn't what we thought". When the recording is replayed and broadcast at the end, the delay is gone.
- When the wall is blasted after River kills all the Reavers, you can see a dead Reaver flinch from the explosion in the bottom left-hand of the screen.
- In the records room scene when the operative says, "Stop, Backtrack, Stop!" you notice that River's eyes are pointing straight. When the scene changes, and the Operative emerges from the record projector, River's eyes are pointed to her left.
- When Kaylee comes across the body of a 'presumably' killed boy, if you look near the gun shot to his tummy you'll see that he's breathing.
- Near the end of the movie when the operative gives the order for the soldiers to stand down, a hand is visible on the left side of the screen as the soldiers are lowering their weapons.
- In the scene directly after Simon being wounded, when River somersaults through the hatch, you can see a knee brace on her right knee. The brace disappears in the next shot.
- When the dying Shepherd Book removes his blood-covered hand from Mal's face, there is no blood left on Mal's cheek, but there is smudged blood in the next shots.
- In the closing scene where the Operative tells the Alliance soldiers to stand down, one of the soldiers (almost out of frame) lowers a set microphone.
