Taking Lives

When Scott is eating breakfast in the restaurant with the other detectives, a French-style police siren can be heard in the background.

Canadian police sirens sound just like their American counterparts.

When Illeana throws something at the full-length mirror, all of the pieces on top fall out.

In the next shot, we see her reflection on a piece of mirror that is back in place at the top of the mirror.

During the car chase, there are several shots from the point of view of the chase car.

The barrel of the gun being pointed at the driver in the lead car is clearly an older style revolver.

However, in subsequent shots and flashbacks we see that the gun is a more modern semi-automatic.

On the way to Mont Laurier from St-Jovite, Matt tells Martin that he's going to Seattle.

Matt would have had to go towards Montreal in order to go to Seattle by bus - Mont Laurier is in the opposite direction At the end of the movie, as Costa is making Illeana tea, after sneaking into her house, the choke-chain in Costa's back right pocket disappears and reappears between shots.

The police helicopters landing at the Moncton (New Brunswick) train station are Sûreté du Québec (Quebec provincial police) helicopters.

Even if the SQ were authorized to carry out an intervention in New Brunswick, Moncton is over 200 kilometres from the Quebec border - there's no way those helicopters could have gotten there in the 20 minutes the police said they had.

While the movie is set in Montreal, Quebec, several scenes were filmed in Quebec City some 150 miles north east from Montreal.

The bridge scene and Le chateau Frontenac are in Quebec City not Montreal.

A police uniform is one scene has the Quebec City insignia.

When Ileana hears LeClair being shot, she races into the building with her sunglasses on.

She has no sunglasses the whole time she is in the apartment, but has them back on as she races down the stairs to chase the other car.

When Costa is waiting for Hart in the bar, the bartender offers a refill and Costa is holding his empty glass (with ice in it).

In the next shot, his glass is back on the bar and is full.

When the white Suburban is spiraling down the road after colliding with Matt (dummy) while changing the tire there is a crew member with a blue top and helmet and yellow pants behind a round hay bale in the field as the Suburban rolls by.

After colliding with Matt, the grill on the Suburban truck is broken.

In the next shot, the truck is launched and spiraling in the air the grill is intact.

Matt Soulsby has a crew cut, however the dummy that hits the Suburban has hair that is over an inch in length.

After striking Matt Soulsby, the Suburban is veering hard left off the road, in the next shot it is heading straight.

SPOILERSAs she enters the pharmacy at the end of the movie, the radio and subtitles talk about the weather conditions being threatening at Fort Collins.

That city is in Colorado, not Pennsylvania.

When Costa puts Hart's dead body in the car it clearly is secured with the seat belt.

That would prevent the head from hitting the windshield at all in the first place, even more so to hit it so hard so as to actually break a hole big enough for the head to protrude.

In the scene where they are digging up the body at the construction site, A body is shown with its arm and hand clearly showing.

Yet at the morgue, and according to dialogue, the hands had been removed.

When Agent Scott first drives Costa back to his apartment in the rain, she confirms the address, "219?".

The shot then cuts to a building marked 188 and shows Hart standing in the entrance to this building, spying on Costa.

We then see Costa entering a building, and the camera cuts back to Hart standing in the doorway of 188.

While it is admittedly unclear, Costa does not enter building 188 and can be assumed by the viewer to be entering 219, since (as revealed later) a meeting with Hart would no doubt result in an altercation.

The three lead police investigators all speak with Parisian French accents.

Quebec French is as distinct from Parisian French as British English is distinct from North American English.

After Duval is killed in the gallery he is referred to as "Agent Duval".

Canadian law enforcement does not have an "Agency".

At the end in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a road sign shows routes 322 and 22.

Routes 22 and 322 are both US routes, not Pennsylvania routes, and they do not go through Carlisle.

One of the Montreal police officers reassures Costa that the serial killer "won't get within 50 yards of you".

While Canada is officially metric, its proximity to the U.

as well as stubbornness among older generations means that in several instances old imperial measurements are still used.

Many people still use feet and inches instead of meters for height, and many Canadians still refer to yards instead of meters for distance.

When Matt and Martin have some beers on the bus, the cans open with modern tabs (not the "pull-off" tabs from the 1970s).

Well, I'm watching this movie right now for the first time. It's average but it has its moments...

As as been said by others, this film is certainly derivative in the plotting department drawing most obviously on "Psycho", "The Silence Of The Lambs" and "Se7en", but isn't in the class of any of those chillers, despite its big-name cast. Angelina Jolie hardly seems credible as the "married to the job" FBI investigator brought on board by Canadian cops trying to track down a serial killer who mutilated his victims and then takes over their lives until his next attack.

D.J.

I should explain- that i am sometimes called too picky when it comes to movies- i see small details- that if they seem unreal -i cast out the movie from my watch list. so here is the small detail that the writers should of researched a bit more- an FBI agent in Canada- hmm it does happen from time to time they go to other countries- but not in this manner- usually a base of operations is set up- even if only helping another government solve their crimes-and that is not often at all-very rare- i would think INTERPOL would be more involved.

Uma Angelina Jolie ainda muito nova mas já capaz de boa prestação. Uma história intrigante mas com demasiados ângulos de antecipação.

A run-of-the-mill serial killer movie with a predictable mystery. It tried TAKING LIVES by surprise with the plot, but failed miserably.

D.J.

Another movie about a serial killer. Nothing wrong with that to me because i like that kind of stuff.