Burn After Reading

When Osbourne is getting demoted, a gold pen keeps appearing and disappearing on the desk.

When Linda and Chad are at the Russian Embassy, the video surveillance shot shows that it is May 1st, later it shows Harry looking at his cell phone with the date being 17/9/2008, September 17th, obviously 5 months later.

When Osbourne is getting demoted, he is behind a chair from one camera angle and in front of the chair from another angle.

The CIA Supervisor states that Venezuela does not have an extradition treaty with the US.

Venezuela has had a bilateral extradition treaty with the US since 1923.

When Linda and Chad are at the Russian Embassy the picture behind Linda and Chad on the office wall is Boris Yeltsin's portrait, then in security camera shot, showing Chad and Linda waiting for Krapotkin, the portrait is of Vladimir Putin.

When Osborne returns home after being served for divorce, he tries to enter his home with a car key not a house key.

When Harry is out running the sweat mark nearly covers the entire back of his shirt.

When he walks into the house after his run the mark is much smaller.

Chad and Linda enjoy a Jamba Juice together.

There are no Jamba Juice stores within 50 miles of Washington, DC.

On his 5.

2 mile run, after crossing the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Harry runs north up a steep hill on 35th Street, and a black car passes him from behind.

In reality, this street runs one-way in the opposite direction.

Also, the car appears to continue straight through the intersection, but is then seen going east on Prospect Street; Harry watches it drive away while facing northwest, then turns and jogs away in the same direction the car went, passing the same tree that the car just passed.

Olive St.

is depicted to be a one-way street, from the way the cars are parked.

But the "SCHOOL ZONE" paint on the pavement faces the opposite direction to the supposed one-way traffic.

The MICR encoding line at the bottom of Ozzy's returned (NSF) check does not have the check number.

When Harry is checking on Chad's body in the closet, in one shot he's pushing cloths with back of his hand and in the other shot he's doing it with his palm.

After the shooting, Harry picks his gun up in his right hand.

As he stands up, he transfers it to his left hand.

In the immediate reverse shot, he is still holding the gun in his right hand.

Also, the position of his left hand (in a two-handed grip) changes between shots.

Krapotkin asks, about the CD, "PC or Mac"? Most data CD formats are readable by either type of computer, however the character could be asking in case the data is in a format readable only on one type of machine, e.

a word processor package that exists only for the Mac.

In the final scene with Linda, in which she's being picked up by the CIA, an agent pulls alongside her on the right.

In the second shot depicting him, the car is in the same spot, in a traffic lane (not parked), but the shifter is in the Park position.

After Osbourne has quit the agency, we see him on a sailboat motoring on the water.

The scene changes to a closeup with his father and the sailboat is suddenly not moving through the water.

When Chad Feldheimer enters Coxes house the basement door is different between the outside view (door and side window) and inside view (no side window).

Before Chad Feldheimer goes over the wall to enter Coxes house you see a white building on the right.

Once over the wall you see a red brick faced building.

Katie reports that it's 5.

2 miles on the odometer from the Cox residence on Olive St.

NW to West Potomac Park just off the Lincoln Memorial.

It's actually no more than about two miles.

This may be deliberate however.

Harry often lies to try to impress his dates.

Perhaps he had Katie go the long away around to the park so he could take the shortcut back that his about two miles, but implying that it is 5 miles to Katie.

After Katie Cox sees the damaged Mercedes, she enters her house and runs past the mirror where 2 lamps are missing.

At the end of the film, when the CIA supervisor opens & closes a file marked "Top Secret", the file's cover-sheet is outlined in red.

This is an error because the cover-sheet of all "Top Secret" classified files are outlined in orange.

Red is saved for the cover-sheets of all classified files marked "Secret" and blue is used for the cover-sheets of all classified files marked "Confidential".

In the scene where Osbourne Cox receives his notice of insufficient funds, when he looks at the paper, it clearly says "We recently we received.

" Clearly whoever typed up the paper was torn between using the word 'recently' or 'received', and, after deciding on one of them, forgot to remove the other.

The apparent time of year keeps changing, some scenes have "turned leaves" on the street, with colorful trees.

Others scenes look to be in mid summer, with clear streets and sidewalks The check that Osbourne Cox wrote was returned NSF to him, when in reality it would be returned to the payee.

When Linda asks Ted to break into the Osbourne house, he puts his hands up while telling her "No, No" and no ring is visible.

In the next shot, you so him making this gesture from another angle and there is clearing a wedding band on Ted's wedding finger.

A VERY FUN MOVIE TO WATCH. .

OK, Brad Pitt did kind of a funny acting as a gay gym teacher. George Clooney also had a couple of good times in his rule.

Its harmless Coen brothers "fun" - I put "fun" in quotation marks because whilst it is easy watching and light, I was pretty bored for a lot of it and it definitely meanders like most Coen brothers films. Its not a lot to ask to have a cohesive ending.

If this movie wasn't directed by the fine eye of the Coens, one would qualify it as a stupid movie by stupid people. Yet the Coens have showcased their comical range, from "The Big Lebowski" to "Intolerable Cruelty" and with "Burn After Reading" they choose to a silent wink into audiences of humor movies of today.

Makes absolutely no sense. Some unusual acting - basically filling space, to make a movie that hardly entertains.

Burn After Reading is a suspense film with a humorous tone. For those who would walk in the movie hoping for a comedy, they're going to be disappointed since most of the funny parts are in the trailer.

This movie is NOT funny. It has NO story line.

When I saw the trailer for a spy comedy starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and John Malcovich, I could hardly contain my excitement. The trailer portrayed a movie filled with whit, spy blunders, and John Malcovich acting like everyone's an idiot.

Actually, it was a fun film. I wasn't laughing too much, but I was amused all the time watching it.