Wanting to be right rather than happy, sucks. Guess there's always a price to being lonely at the top. I'd rather just watch it over & over - you know, see only the good & praise it. Yeah, it's that simple. Watching it again, now.

I think they leave these mistakes in, so idiots will notice it and not like the movie. After all they don't want a fan-base comprised of idiots whose complaints aren't even accurate.

The sailors who rescue Bourne are Italians. The port the fishing boat enters 2 weeks later is not Marseilles, but Imperia in Liguria, Italy (compare this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia#/media/File:Imperia_Porto_Maurizio_BMK.jpg
with the skyline at 00:09:13.

I don't have a dog. And furthermore, my dog doesn't bite. And furthermore, you provoked him.

Dwelling upon the embassy/consulate thing is really just unnecessary smartassing. It's a perfectly plausible character error to have the CIA guys call it an "embassy", given that - as many others have pointed out - many otherwise educated people aren't aware that Zurich is not the capital of Switzerland, or even what the difference between a consulate or an embassy is. The people at the location in Zurich correctly call it a "consulate", as you would expect them to do.
The objection with the fact that Switzerland was not a Schengen country when the film is set is more substantive. It would, indeed, imply that Bourne would have to pass border checks when entering Switzerland by train from Marseilles, or leaving it by car towards Paris.

Other than it's 'inconvenient' to the plot, rather like the way he waltzes into the embassy/consulate/Burgerking thing with no security check of his bag etc when obviously he's being pursued by the Gendarmerie!
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You can't get out of the train station when travelling from a non-Schengen country to a Schengen one by train without showing some identification. There's a quite serious security check where they check papers, visas and bags, too. And I'm sure it's the same the other way around.
I don't think there's any explanation for this [that is, Bourne getting into Switzerland, of all European countries, without papers] other than that it is indeed a stupid mistake.

Didn't think of that. Maybe he just locked himself up at the loo.
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Hannibal Lecter: You will.

Yeah you only forget that the film is set in 2002 (or perhaps even earlier, I'm not sure) and
Switzerland only joined the Schengen area in
2009

Because of the
Schengen Agreement
. No border checks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
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Hannibal Lecter: You will.

How did he get into Switzerland without papers anyway?

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Zrich is more colorful and attractive than Bern. Simple decision.

I think they leave in mistakes like the obvious running behind the truck as he arrives back off the fishing boat.

Who cares?

Armadillo, you have just ruined the film for me.
Until I read your post, I though The Bourne Identity was a smart, exciting film.
But now you've pointed out it was riddled with dimbo mistakes, I've gone right off it and wondered why I was so badly fooled.
Thank you!

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Indeed ._.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language.

Probably
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And even then, Bern would probably be their 3rd or 4th guess, as they would probably think Geneva after saying its not Zurich.

pretty sure if you were to ask the average person on the street where the US embassy in Switzerland is, 9 out of 10 would probably say Zurich
Ask them for the capital and they will say Zrich too. Don't know why that is but everybody thinks Zrich (largest city) instead of Bern (there's no capital actually, not de jure, only de facto).
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Agree, its just something to make the plot of the movie keep rolling, pretty sure if you were to ask the average person on the street where the US embassy in Switzerland is, 9 out of 10 would probably say Zurich.
Also, having been in Zurich, it is amazing how little the city resembles that of the movie I knew that Prague doubled for Zurich in most the scenes, but the two cities are like night and day in terms of style!

not all consulates deal with visa issues
But some do? Problem solved. It is a film after all.
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Problem is, not all consulates deal with visa issues.
I have been to enough in my time, and would surprise you how many of them do not deal with visa's, or are no more than just a back room in some guys house that deals with emergancy passport issues in that country.
Agree, it could have been all sorted with just a change of words, but probably using Embassy sounds more official and can say why a small army just happened to be there.

There would be no problem at all if Conklin used the term consulate as well. There
is
a consulate in Zrich after all and it would fit the purpose, Jason escaping the Swiss police. Only a minor error from the filmmakers to confuse the terms IMHO.
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