(at around 35 mins) At the funeral, Viper is shown using a cell phone to film Logan fighting. When she is interrupted by the gang member with a gun, she shifts the angle of the phone to the right, and then lowers it completely. The image on the phone does not reflect these movements, it continues to show Logan centered in the image.
After Logan loses some of his healing powers and his wounds do not heal as quickly as they should, he is shot several times, bleeds and is left with wounds that take time to heal. However, despite extending his claws through the skin between his knuckles multiple times, this leaves no blood or visible wounds of any kind.
(at around 1h 35 mins) Logan is shot in the back with many arrows as he tries to make his way to rescue Mariko. After he is captured and taken to Viper, we see the back of his t-shirt and there is not a single hole in it.
(at around 56 mins) [extended version only] When Wolverine is attacked at the hotel and falls off the balcony he is shot in his left shoulder. When he awakens, the vet has stitched a bullet wound on his right shoulder.
(at around 1h 21 mins) When Viper is walking into Shingen's office she is taking off her glove as she is entering, camera pans to Shingen, then back to her and she is taking off her glove again.
(at around 1h 24 mins) When Logan is pulling the X-ray machine up his body, an X-ray of his legs is shown. In this X-ray, he has no knee caps.
(at around 4 mins) Explosions do not enter blind cavities like the well shown. Even a shallow ditch is sufficient protection from a blast wave. Blind tunnels are used in mines to protect workers from explosions.
Throughout the movie, katanas are shown cutting chains or padlocks with a swift flick. They may be sharp, but it still requires a lot of force to cut thick steel.
(at around 45 mins) The Bullet Train is an electric train, yet there are no overhead wires. Wolverine leaps and ducks to avoid being knocked over by the gantries which are there to support the overhead wires.
The actual fireball at Nagasaki was only 100 meters in diameter.
It would not have crossed the bay.
Pretty much everything about the Nagasaki bombing is wrong. In the film...
...whereas in reality: it was a cloudy day; the destruction of Hiroshima was not widely known, so there was no panic; the small number of planes was dismissed as a reconnaissance flight; they came in at high altitude, above 30 000 feet / 9000 meters; the bomb did not carry a whistle, and fell for nearly a minute; the explosion happened at 500 meters altitude; the initial flash would have instantly scorched and blinded Yashida severely; the explosion was silent until several seconds later at that distance; the initial fireball was larger, and was not black smoke; the sound from it took several seconds to reach that distance; the shock-wave would have come sooner to the camp; the shock-wave did not carry fire with it, certainly not to the point of creating a raging but short-lived fire storm.
However(!) all of that is a dream, within a dream, in a universe slightly different from ours.
- ...the planes are coming in low enough to be clearly seen
- ...it is sunny weather with few clouds
- ...there is a panic, as if onlookers know what is about to happen
- ...the bomb carries an audible whistle, and falls only for a few seconds
- ...the explosion focal point is at ground level
- ...the initial heat/light flash is rather harmless
- ...the detonation is shown as a black smoke-ball
- ...the sound is heard immediately on detonation
- ...the shock-wave carries fire with it
...whereas in reality: it was a cloudy day; the destruction of Hiroshima was not widely known, so there was no panic; the small number of planes was dismissed as a reconnaissance flight; they came in at high altitude, above 30 000 feet / 9000 meters; the bomb did not carry a whistle, and fell for nearly a minute; the explosion happened at 500 meters altitude; the initial flash would have instantly scorched and blinded Yashida severely; the explosion was silent until several seconds later at that distance; the initial fireball was larger, and was not black smoke; the sound from it took several seconds to reach that distance; the shock-wave would have come sooner to the camp; the shock-wave did not carry fire with it, certainly not to the point of creating a raging but short-lived fire storm.
However(!) all of that is a dream, within a dream, in a universe slightly different from ours.
(at around 45 mins) Wolverine and Mariko are traveling in the same compartment in the Bullet Train. During the fight on the roof of the train, Wolverine and his enemies fall back many compartments. However when one of the assailants looks down through an overhead window, he can still see Mariko, and Wolverine appears way ahead of Mariko's seat.
However, it's not clear that the rest room which Wolverine uses to clean his wounds was in the same compartment of their seats. He could have gone forward an undetermined number of compartments in the train before finding one that was not been used. He runs into the yakuzas just going out of the rest room.
However, it's not clear that the rest room which Wolverine uses to clean his wounds was in the same compartment of their seats. He could have gone forward an undetermined number of compartments in the train before finding one that was not been used. He runs into the yakuzas just going out of the rest room.
(at around 56 mins) During dinner, Mariko removes upright chopsticks from Logan's bowl and places them on the table while explaining it is considered bad luck in Japanese culture. Their conversation continues for a few minutes. Near the end of the scene, the chopsticks are again standing upright again in the bowl and she once more removes them and places on the table. This is not a goof but it's intended to remark that Logan doesn't take seriously Japanese customs for he repeats the inconvenience some minutes later. During the conversation you can see Logan making some movements in his plate, and he is unseen much of the time, so it's possible that he puts his chopsticks upright again.
The pit where Logan is imprisoned is not a water well because it's too close to sea level AND to the shoreline to ever contain fresh water. It's not a torture or prison pit because it has a formed concrete bunker on top with gun slits. It's not a gun emplacement because it contains no gun mount, and the floor is too far below the slits for anyone to stand and fire. It's not a bunker because its only access is via the fully-exposed manhole cover, and there are no stairs for people to climb down for cover. The short chain ladder at the bottom would be useless since it's not functional for someone at the bottom, and it can't be removed or emplaced by someone at the top.
Since the pit is part of a dream made out of vague memories, it can be incoherent.
(at around 3 mins) The appearance of a single bomber in the sky would hardly constitute reason for the Japanese officers to commit seppuku. However, this was a B-29 approaching Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. Hiroshima had already been A-bombed on August 6th, so the Japanese officers knew what was coming.
(at around 1h 6 mins) When Logan and Mariko are seeking shelter from the rain, the camera pans from right to left and the rain moves in line with the view.
(at around 1h 40 mins) When Viper sheds her skin, her hair comes away with the old skin, leaving her bald. But her eyebrows and eyelashes seem to have grown under the old skin - they're still there on the fresh, new skin.
(at around 3 mins) Not only was the B-29 carrying the Atomic Bomb (Fat Man) at a much higher altitude (over 30,000 ft.) then portrayed in the film, the bomb exploded at an altitude of 1,650 ft., it did not explode when it hit the ground.
(at around 1h 1 min) When Logan is chopping the tree, not even the leaves quiver as the axe impacts it. And despite several large CG wood chips flying off with each strike, the notch does not change size or shape. Nor is anyone else seen to be helping remove the tree, or any parts Logan might have already cut off, or any parts he's cutting off, or the stump that will be left when he completes the cut. And the "road" that was said to be blocked by the fallen tree is shown to be merely a path along a waterfront park - hardly worth bothering two unexpected visitors who came to the village to hide out about helping to remove it.
(at around 1h 12 mins) When the Yakuza kidnap Mariko from the Nagasaki house, Logan chases them over rooftops then jumps unto a parked truck as he gets off he grabs the rail of the truck which you can clearly see is a mattress and not really made of metal.
Yukio's premonition about Wolverine's death was technically correct. His heart flat-lined right after he removed the probe while on the X-Ray table. His restored healing powers then brought him back to life.
When shogun heats up his Adamantium sword to cut wolverines claws, it should be the Adamantium Sword that softens. And it should never have been able to cut through the harden adamantium claws.
(at around 1h 3 mins) The samurai sword that was named Danzan (and was supposedly old) had a visible locking clip in the scene inside the Nagasaki POW pit. This means that it was an early 20th-century Imperial Army-made sword (a reproduction mass-produced for Japanese officers).
(at around 41 mins) Logan and Mariko catch a shinkansen (bullet train) from Ueno Station and head South West towards Nagasaki. This would require them to change trains at Tokyo Station, the next stop from Ueno Station. Additionally, where they board the bullet train, you can see the sunny sky between the roofs above the boarding platforms. Boarding for the shinkansen at Ueno Station is deep underground.
When Logan and Mariko flee from the attack at the funeral, they run from Zojo-ji Temple to Ueno Station, passing by Akihabara on the way. But after escaping the pachinko parlor, they proceed to leave Akihabara by running south across Mansei Bridge - the road they would've arrived by - and not north towards Ueno.
Wolverine's claws have been established as being able to easily cut through all kinds of metal; even thick armored doors & concrete. A thin sword would not have even slowed them down.
Throughout the film Wolverine has flashbacks to the dropping of the atomic bomb and yet in X-Men (2000) Jean Grey states that he has no memory of what happened to him, and in X-Men: le origini - Wolverine (2009) he is shot in the head by William Stryker and wakes up with having lost his memory. Since this has been established twice, how can he remember the events of the war?
(at around 31 mins) The archer on the roof was not concealed at all - everyone could see him easily despite his black pajamas, and he would have attracted just as much attention as someone wandering around on a city roof at an important event anywhere else.
When Logan saved Yashida he had his bone claws. After adamantium replacement he lost his entire memory because of a adamantium bullet shot in the head. He's not suppose to remember the Nagasaki incident.
(at around 1h 2 mins) The correct etiquette for handing over a samurai sword is with two hands under the sword, held up horizontally, with the grip facing to the left, blade to the right, usually accompanied by a bow. The giver is symbolically in a non-threatening, more vulnerable position, demonstrating submission and trust.