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Audio/visual unsynchronised (9) |
Boom mic visible (1) |
Character error (2) |
Continuity (25) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Errors in geography (1) |
Factual errors (2) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (2) |
Revealing mistakes (20) |
Spoilers (18)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Anna hits Poncho and runs away, Dutch points and "whistles" at Hawkins ordering him to chase Anna. But when the whistling noise is heard Dutch's mouth is closed.
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When Anna sneaks up on Dutch from behind in the rebel camp, he turns around at the sound of a pistol being cocked, when she is merely holding the gun.
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When Dutch is told that the craft found "looks like a surveillance bird" the words don't match the lip movement.
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When Poncho climbs the rope to check out the chopper, the hook on the rope's end is lifted by his clothes. When it drops back onto the chopper there is no metal sound.
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When Dutch is running from the Predator, and trying to lead the beast into the small tunnel which contains the "trap", a quick cut-away shot of the trap mechanism appears to be a photo of the trap, as opposed to "live" footage, and even appears to be a bit out of focus.
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As the Predator walks across the wooden 'bridge' that Dutch hides under, his footsteps clearly make the sound of the solid wooden heels of very normal human shoes.
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In the first battle Dillon yells out "cover the center of the pavilion" but his lips don't move.
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When they first hit the guerrilla village, after the initial explosions and gunfire, Dillon is heard saying "Target's the center of the palapa," yet his mouth is not moving.
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During the attack on the guerrilla camp, Poncho and Hawkins enter the main palapa and kill a couple of soldiers immediately. As one of the soldiers is falling, he discharges his weapon several times, but no sound is heard.
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Boom mic visible
When 'Dutch' and Major George Dillon are hiding from the Predator in the hole/trench the boom mic is visible.
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Character error
In several scenes Mac is seen shaving. No solider, special forces or otherwise, would ever shave in the jungle as it welcomes infection which in those conditions can kill a man.
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When Dillon radios for help, the voice on the other end says they will speak again at 9:30 hours. Dillon incorrectly acknowledges it as 10:30 hours.
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Continuity
Orientation of the scorpion when Mac crushes it with his boot.
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The cable wraps tying Anna's wrists.
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Billy has a M16 with a shotgun attached to it. In the scene right after they leave the rebel camp you can see Billy with a "normal" M16 without an attached shotgun. One moment later he has his own rifle back again...
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Dutch lights an explosive and tosses it at the Predator. When it explodes, Dutch runs and jumps on a branch. In the first shot with the branch, it has a curved end. When Dutch grabs onto the branch in the next shot the branch has no curved end.
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When Dutch catches the dog tags of Lt. Hopper, they hang off the side of his hand. In the following shot (from Dutch's point of view) they are sitting nicely in his palm. It then cuts back to the full body shot of Dutch and they are hanging off the side of his hand again.
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The snake that crawls down towards the guys is slithering down a metal pole when we see it in close-up, instead of the tree we see in the previous shot.
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At the start of the raid on the rebel camp, Poncho is shown firing from behind a tree already riddled with bullets. Moments later, the tree is in better shape before being shot again.
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When Poncho tells Dillon "Maybe you should put her on a leash, agent man," Poncho's hands move around on his gun between shots.
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When Billy climbs up to discover Hopper and his team's bodies he is wearing nomex flight gloves. A moment later he is shown barehanded as he shields his face from the buzzards, only to be wearing them again as he emerges from the brush.
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The dust cover on Billy's M16 is alternately open/closed between shots in the scenes leading up to the guerrilla camp firefight.
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When Arnold is swinging through the trees trying to get the predator to follow him into the trap, there is a clip where he his hugging the tree and his hair is messy. There is a pan of the forest then back to Arnold but now his hair is all neat and tidy.
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At the beginning of the movie when Dutch asks Dillon who their reinforcements are you can clearly see Poncho sitting next to Dillon, but Poncho doesn't move next to Dillon until later when he tells Blaine to strap the grenade launcher on his sore ass.
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The length of Dutch's cigar changes drastically during the Jeep ride from the helicopter. Dutch is seen lighting the new Churchill sized cigar when the chopper lands, but when he walks up to the General, it is several inches shorter. That type of cigar takes a few hours to smoke, so the Jeep ride across the beach would have to be about 45 minutes long. Additionally, his cigar is shown to be even shorter in the next scene inside the General's HQ.
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After Dutch swims to shore, he falls on the left side of his face. When he turns around to look at the Predator, we can see that the right side of his face is clean. A little later, after Dutch struggles into the brambles and turns around, his entire face is covered in mud.
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When the team sets up the tree trap, Dillon is seen in the background of one shot shirtless and helping out; in the next instance, he has his shirt on and is told by Dutch "Instead of complaining, maybe you should help".
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Right after Dutch gives the plan for attacking the rebel camp, Blaine and Mac walk off screen to the left. Blaine is carrying the mini-gun ready to use it. In the next shot the mini-gun is shouldered and his M16 is being carried.
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Near the end when Dutch is alone and waits for the predators arrival after setting up his traps, it's late at night. However in a cutaway shot showing the predator leaping down from the trees shortly after-wards, its in the middle of the day. When the camera goes back to Dutch with the predator behind him, it's night again.
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After the commandoes have set a trap for the Predator, there are tripwires all over the ground. When the Predator attacks, the tripwires mysteriously disappear.
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When the team is attacking the terrorist camp and Dutch launches a grenade from his attached M203 grenade launcher, there is an explosion that sends a terrorist flying in the air. Few seconds later Poncho uses his grenade launcher to attack the camp, but the same explosion with the same terrorist is shown once again.
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When General Philips is visible in the tent at the beginning, his name is spelled with one "L", whereas in the credits it is spelled with two "L"s.
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When Dutch is shot by the predator. He is hit between his arm and shoulder. In the next scene were he lying on the floor. The wound is clearly only on his shoulder and has moved further down his arm.
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During the terrorist camp attack, a man with a mustache, red bandanna on his neck and a hat is seen shooting down at Mac, who promptly hides behind some rock and tells Blaine to help and kill him for him. Blaine fires ahead and the man is then seen being shot dead, falling down and smashing through a roof next Hawkins and Poncho. Next, some more terrorists are seen to pop up to start shooting, one of them being the same man with the mustache, red bandanna around the neck and a hat who was seen being killed just seconds earlier.
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After Mac's head is obviously blown to pieces by the Predator, Dillon catches a glimpse of his dead body with his head intact. Additionally, when we see Mac's cleaned skull, it has a surprisingly neat entry wound for something hit by a plasma-based energy weapon that can destroy trees. Also, there's no visible exit wound on the skull, despite the earlier depiction suggesting that there was a fairly explosive exit.
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Throughout the film the team use items such as a grappling hook and Claymore mines. Yet they are very visibly never carrying these items in scenes where they are not required.
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When he is crawling towards the bodies of Jim Hopper and his men, Billy clearly has his rifle slung over his right shoulder. In the brief overhead shot, the rifle is gone.
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Crew or equipment visible
In the pan-and-scan version, when Billy first finds the bodies of the skinned green berets, he is startled by the vultures as they fly away. In a quick overhead shot, a camera can clearly be seen below him.
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Anna sneaks up behind Dutch with a gun. Dutch then hits Anna on the side of the head with his gun. If you look in the lower left corner of the screen, right when Anna is about to fall, you can see someone's hand touch Anna's back to help her "fall" to the ground. (Non-widescreen version only).
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Errors in geography
One scene features prominently a reticulated python (Python reticulatus) moving on a tree's branch. The species is found in Southeast Asia rather than Central America.
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Factual errors
It is not possible to fire a mini gun, which Blain carries, without some power source, which he does not carry; the pack on his back only contains ammunition. Further more, if a human were to fire a mini gun with live ammunition, one would be propelled backwards by the recoil.
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Although Dutch' body was covered in mud, his eyes never were. Eyes give also off a lot of heat, so the Predator could have seen him.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
The object visible under the log while Mac and the major are hiding there, which looked like a microphone to some, has been identified as the ends of two guns.
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Anna swings a branch at the right side of Poncho's head, but he turns before the impact, which is why he bleeds from the left.
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Revealing mistakes
Springboard clearly visible when Dillon is picked up by the Predator. (Non-widescreen version only).
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After Anne runs away from Dillon and is caught, Dillon lifts her up and her hands are in front of her "bound" together. One of the zipties that is supposed to be around her wrist is hanging loose and her hands are clearly no longer bound, although she holds them together as if they were.
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When Dutch is about to lift the running truck off the logs, the rebel is obviously looking to his right waiting for the truck to come by so he can look surprised.
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When Dutch falls down the waterfall, it is clearly a stunt double. The person falling down the waterfall has more hair than Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the movie.
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As Dillon and Anna walk by Mac after the fight at the compound, a supposedly dead soldier can be see rolling his leg around. He's the one lying directly next to the barrel, and can only be seen before Mac takes the scorpion off of Dillon's back.
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During several scenes in the movie, permanent blank adapters can be seen in the muzzles of the various weapons carried by Dutch and his team. Most notably, the scene where Mac is walking through the bush with his M60 barrel pointed towards the camera, and another scene where Billy is shown emerging from the bush with the muzzle of his M16 pointed towards the camera. There should only be one hole at the end of the barrels of each weapon, but what can be seen is a small reversed cone shape inside the flash suppressor indicating permanently modified blank firing weapons.
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When Mac fires into the trees with the mini-gun it cuts to a quick wide shot behind him showing some of the trees in front falling down. However if you look carefully there's some trees that are being "shot down" and falling over before Mac has even fired in their direction.
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When the crew are in the chopper traveling into the jungle 'Long Tall Sally' is playing on the tape recorder behind Blaine - but there is no tape in the recorder.
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Obvious animation: when the Predator is answering Dutch's challenge, it leaps onto a tree branch and then kicks off, but the branch never moves once.
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In the early scenes when Dutch's crew attacks the enemy camp and specifically just prior to engaging the helicopter, the pilot jumps into the helicopter and tries to shut the door. The door begins to fall off the helicopter revealing that it is only a flimsy set piece rather than a real helicopter.
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During the scene when Anna is in the jungle with Dutch and his team and hits Poncho with the log you can easily tell its made out of a foam material, because after making contact not only does it easily break and crumble in a awkward fashion but also no sound is produced from the impact.
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When Poncho is hit with the log the Predator just shot, you can see the ramp that flings Poncho into the air right under him.
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When Predator uses stealth camouflage, his hair completely vanishes.
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Right before Dutch climbs underneath the log bridge, you can see a bungee rope helping the Predator land.
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When Billy is about to have his spine removed by the Predator, you can clearly see him closing his eyes before hitting the log and then quickly reopen them after impact, even though he is supposed to be dead.
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In the scene when Mac is firing the mini-gun into the jungle and the camera pans down the line of all of the soldiers firing, it is obvious that the belt fed ammo at the right of the mini-gun is not moving, nor are any shells being ejected.
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When attacking the terrorist camp Dutch goes to the truck used a power source with a belt attached to the rear wheel. When Dutch cuts the belt the truck is in reverse gear, when he lifts it and pushes into the compound you can see the the truck is now in a forward gear without Dutch entering the cab and changing gears.
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When Mac opens up the body bag with Blaine inside, you can see a visible pulse on the left side of Blaine's neck.
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When Blaine is dead on the ground, he clearly blinks a couple of times
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There are a lot of common house plants in the jungle, some still in their black plastic pots. Near the end, for example, when they start to go to the chopper.
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Spoilers
Character error
After Hawkins is killed, Anna is found, terrified. Poncho asks her repeatedly, "Que paso, mujer?" which does in fact mean, "What happened, lady?" Her answer is "No se, no estoy seguro, no se!" Poncho states, "She says the jungle, it came alive and took him." "No se" is Spanish for "I don't know," and "No estoy seguro" means "I'm not sure."Share this
Continuity
In the final battle scene, before the Predator takes off his mask, Dutch can be seen leaning back against a tree; from the Predator's view, he is standing in the clearing, hunched over in a ready position.Share this
Continuity
After the scene where the whole team embarks on a shooting spree into the jungle (after Blain's death), Dillon gets on the radio to ask for help "Blazer one I repeat extraction necessary, say again blazer one, say again!" The first shot shows Dillon facing in Anna and Poncho's direction. When the camera zooms in for the next shot, Dillon is facing away from Anna and Poncho.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
Almost at the end of the movie (everyone but Dutch has died), when Dutch is walking (semi-crouched) through the jungle with his assault gun, it can be clearly seen that the leaves in front of Dutch are being moved by the camera going backwards in order to follow Dutch.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
(at around 1h 08 mins) When the Predator is walking away right after he had blown Mac's head, in the next shot you can see Mac's body going into death convulsions . In the upper side of the screen, right below the highest tree branch, the camera (from which the view of Mac's head blown was shown) is clearly being pulled up by the cameraman.Share this
Errors in geography
The snake that Dutch sees when he is looking for the body of Hawkins is a Burmese python. The only large constricting snake in central America is the Boa constrictor which isn't as big as a Burmese python. Since the movie was filmed in Mexico the question becomes, why didn't they use a Boa? Burmese pythons are indigenous to southeast Asia.Share this
Factual errors
The last scene of the movie, where the helicopter is flying out of the jungle, the aircraft has it's anti-collision lights on. This is standard for peacetime operations, but no military pilot would fly in a "hot" territory with them turned on, as they are designed specifically to draw attention to the exact location of the aircraft.Share this
Factual errors
The Predator uses two large retractable blades, each probably close to 20 inches long and 4 inches wide, to kill Major George Dillon. The Predator stabs Dillon in the abdomen with enough force to actually lift him a foot or so off the ground. With the length of the blades and the location in which Dillon was stabbed, he certainly would have not been able to scream as long and as loud as he did. There simply would have been too much internal damage done by these large blades. Given their length and the fact that they did not exit his back, the blades would have had to go up, thus piercing his diaphragm and one or both of his lungs. Dillon could have, at best, only managed a gasp.Share this
Factual errors
When Dutch is being pursued by the predator, he hides from its infra-red vision using mud. While freshly and thickly applied mud would help minimise his heat signature, it would not take the body long to warm the mud to a higher temperature than the surrounding vegetation; especially the thin and inconsistent layer we see Dutch covered with. He certainly would not be invisible, just somewhat less obvious.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
The Predator is able to fight Dutch without its helmet because it still sees Dutch, just in a different way. Point of view shots from the Predator after the helmet is removed clearly show Dutch.Share this
Revealing mistakes
After the predator shoots Blain through the chest and Mac rolls Blain over, you can see the undershirt the actor is wearing under the fake wound.Share this
Revealing mistakes
After removing his space helmet, the Predator screams at Dutch. Seconds later, while chasing Dutch, the Predator roars at him, and the same footage of the Predator's screaming is used.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Dillon has his arm blown off and the Predator is coming for him, his hand is visible behind his back under his vest as he turns to take off his machine gun.Share this
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When Mac opens up the body bag with Blaine inside, you can see his right eye twitching.Share this
Revealing mistakes
The looped cord for the rigged booby trap (seen going up when Dutch trips it) is a matte added in, partially transparent. Additionally, when Dutch is constructing the trap, this rope, the one that would have pulled the Predator's head or next up and into the stakes, was actually several vines, whereas the rope added later was only one strand.Share this
Revealing mistakes
In the original uncut version, when Major George Dillon has his right arm shot off, the camera pans around his back and you can see his right hand poking out under his shirt, in the next shot his hand is not there.Share this
