Goofs
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Audio/visual unsynchronised (2) |
Character error (2) |
Continuity (16) |
Crew or equipment visible (3) |
Errors in geography (4) |
Factual errors (2) |
Incorrectly regarded as goofs (2) |
Revealing mistakes (2)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
During the harbour scene near the end, the report of McManus's Steyr AUG is very muted and yet he has no silencer attached.
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Dean Keaton's line "If I don't get Kobayashi my way she'll get him her way", spoken to Verbal Kint by the dock, doesn't match the movement of his lips.
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Character error
Keaton calls the Hungarian language "Russian", although it sounds nothing like it. The Verbal character corrects this.
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The character of Kobayashi, when introducing himself, does not pronounce his own name correctly.
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Continuity
Level of coffee in the mugs in the interview room.
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Hockney's position when Redfoot is leaving.
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The Sig.228 dropped in the garage turns into a Browning.
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The blood on the elevator window.
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When McManus lights the "finest taxi service" on fire, he drops the lighter, and the sky-view of the car shows fires starting on three separate places on top of the car: the hood, roof, and trunk.
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Keaton's cigarette when he leaves the police station.
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In the opening murder, the gunman is not wearing gloves. After the shooting, he is shown in close-up wearing gloves, dropping his cigarette. Then during his escape, while in shadow, he is visibly no longer wearing gloves. (Audio commentary reveals the close-up hand to be that of composer/editor John Ottman).
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During the lineup scene, as Fenster reads the card, Keaton's right hand is over his mouth (trying to cover his laughter, see Trivia) while his left hand underneath his jacket. As the angle changes, his left hand is now on his face and his right hand is under the jacket.
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Shot of a landing Jumbo Jet (four-engined Boeing 747) becomes a twin-engined 767 or 777 a minute later.
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When Keaton is sitting on the bench in the cell after the line up telling McManus to shut up, his shirt collar alternates between being under his jacket, and outside his jacket between shots.
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In the scene where Kobayashi is walking through the office building flanked by his two bodyguards, just before the camera pulls back to reveal Hockney, we see an African-American woman in a white blouse and tan slacks walking along side of Kobayashi. In the next cut to Kobayashi walking through the elevator corridor, if you look to the bank of elevators to the left, you'll see the same woman coming out of an elevator as if she had just come down from one of the upper floors.
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During Verbal's interrogation, his coffee mug is empty when he takes the first sip. In the next scene, it is fine.
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During Verbal's long interrogation scene, the officer lunges at him after his sarcastic comment. Kevin Spacey, quick to react throws up his left arm in defense. The arm, referred to as lame or "Gimp" is supposed to be dead and non working.
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Prior to lighting the police car in fire, the lights on the car are stepped on and crushed yet in the following shots, they are intact.
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When the two police officers pick up the emerald smuggler at the airport, their squad car number on the license plate is 2485. Later when they are hit from behind by the van and are robbed the the squad car number on the side has changed to 6423.
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An overhead shot of the police car burning shows the surrounding pavement totally dry. Seconds later as the occupants fall out of the car, the pavement is wet and puddled with water.
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Crew or equipment visible
During Verbal's interrogation, when Dave Kujan bends over to pick up the dropped cigarette lighter, several lighting stands and a flag are visible in the background, by the desk lamp.
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In the scene when the men go to ambush Mr. Kobayashi at his law offices, just after he enters the front door of the lobby with his bodyguards, crew members and lighting stands are visible in the reflection of the polished marble as the camera dollies past the column.
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After the lineup scene when the characters are moved to the cell, as Fenster begins to pace back and forth, there is a silver microphone visible underneath the bench that Todd Hockney is laying on. Two seconds later it vanishes.
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Errors in geography
In the robbery of "New York's Finest Taxi Service", the firefighters arrive wearing Los Angeles fire helmets, not the black leather helmets used by New York.
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In the beginning of the movie, we see "San Pedro" police department. San Pedro is part of the city of Los Angeles, and as such, it would be the Los Angeles Police Department, Harbor Division.
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Planes landing in New York City from South America would land at JFK, not La Guardia airport. The arriving passenger was picked up at the departure section of the Delta building.
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When the police taxi service picked up the smuggler, after they were shown crossing the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the smuggler handed the police the envelope of cash and asked if it was enough to get him to Staten Island. Having crossed the bridge, they would have already been in Staten Island. If they came from Newark Airport, they would have already been on and left Staten Island, but this wouldn't be the case as the New York City police would not have picked him up in Newark, New Jersey.
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Factual errors
In the hospital scenes in the burn unit, the medical staff are gloved and gowned but their surgical masks are pulled down under their chins. Their masks should be covering their noses/mouths because burn victims are extremely vulnerable to infection.
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In the opening scene when the police arrive to the dock of the burning ship, there are bodies lined up up on the pier covered in body bags labeled "S P CORONER" as in San Pedro Coroner. The Department of the Coroner is a function of Los Angeles County.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
During the line-up scene, as the suspects enter the line-up booth, a microphone can be seen above Hockney's position. This is a standard feature of police line-up booths.
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At the opening of the film we see some injured guy lying on the ship desk and someone shooting him from just 2-3 feet away. At the end, when the story is being re-enacted, the shooter is at least 12 feet away. However, this is entirely possible as the first time the scene is shown it is implied that it is actually happening; whereas the second time, towards the end of the movie, is a retelling of the story by Roger "Verbal" Kint.
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Revealing mistakes
Blood squib visible in the money bag as Hockney is shot.
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In the first hospital scene, the Hungarian's face is burned, but his right eyebrow isn't even scorched.
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