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Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans in The Last Boy Scout (1991)

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The Last Boy Scout

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Continuity

When Jimmy Dix shows the senator's bodyguards the "bom" picture through the window of the BMW, they shoot at him completely shattering the window. In a subsequent shot, when Jimmy is yanking on the seat belt, you can see the window undamaged.
When Milo's car crashes over the roof and lands in the pool, it destroys the chimney sending bricks and other debris flying. However, when the car lands the debris has disappeared.
When the thugs prepare to throw Jimmy Dix over the side of the bridge, they drag him to the rail facing forward. In the next shot, he's turned around the other way and falls back-first onto the car hood.
After Milo sticks a knife in his upper left thigh and blood gushes all over Milo's hand, Joe kicks him off the scaffolding and then dances a jig with no evidence of a knife wound or any blood on his leg.
In the beginning of the film when Jimmy throws the football at his old teammate, he clearly hits him in the forehead and he grabs his forehead, but in the next shot his nose is broken.

Factual errors

The C4 that Joe hides in the trunk cannot be detonated by a gunshot. However it is possible that the bullet struck the detonator which depending on the model could be set off by the impact of the bullet.
Reference is made by both Marcone and Senator Baynard to the "Senate Commission to Investigate Gambling in Professional Sports". Senate and House of Representatives panels are referred to as "committees"; "commissions" are special panels appointed by the President of the United States.
In the movie Joe Hollenback (Bruce Willis) kills a man by driving the man's nose into his brain by use of an upward hand thrust to the bottom of the man's nose. This is impossible. The nose is made of cartilage, not bone. Even if the nose were bone there is no way it would be able to penetrate the skull. The man would definitely suffer a broken nose, but he would not die.

However, the villain states that his partner in crime was killed by his nose (made out of cartilage as well as bones) entering the brain. It is likely what he thinks, the reality being that the thug was made unconscious by the severity of the blow, fell down, hit his head and died.
Joe(Willis) put the plastic explosive(C-4) in the trunk of his car, when he saw the bad guys walking up to them. The bad guys asked for the key to the trunk, which Willis then tossed away. The bad guys proceeded to shoot the trunk open, which detonated the C-4. According Wikipedia (h-t-t-p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_%28explosive%29), C-4 does not explode even if hit by a bullet, punched, cut, or thrown into a fire.
After throwing a football off the face of the man in the hot tub, former quarterback Jimmy says he has "the best arm in the national league." "The national league" is a term associated with MLB baseball, which has the American and National Leagues and six divisions. NFL football is divided into two conferences and eight divisions.

Revealing mistakes

When Milo and his thugs knock out Joe and then drag him to the car, right before they throw him in the door his right leg is lifting itself up.
When Joe shoots at the limousine from the overpass he holds onto the chain-link fence with one hand. A safety cable is visible running up the sleeve of his jacket.
When swinging from the net during the fight with Milo, the lights Joe crashes into emit sparks before he makes contact with them.
Around 01:22:33, when Joseph is landing, we can see that's not Bruce Willis, it's a stuntman.
When Milo's car flips through the air after hitting the roof, the driver is clearly a stuntman wearing a helmet. Bars from the roll cage are also visible inside the car.

Miscellaneous

The body of Cory's Sharkbody Corvette Stingray featured in the movie is made of fiberglass, not metal. Any bullets would pass through it, not bounce off.
I seriously doubt a senator could tie up viciously beat a girl in a hotel room and the agent protecting him looses his job for stopping the abuse very unrealistic after a crime of that magnitude has just been committed by someone..
Jimmy Dix claims to have "the best arm in the National League," but his first throw in the movie--aimed at the face of the football player in the hot tub--is decidedly amateurish. Even a high school quarterback could throw a tighter spiral.
While singing during the opening credits, Bill Medley is wearing sunglasses throughout, but in one shot, he is not wearing any.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

We see one of the bad guys tinkering on the piano on the background. He seems to be tapping a key on the left of the keyboard (low note), but we hear a high note.
Joe hits the thug with a bottle and the thug says, "You bastard." Then Joe says, "And then some," without moving his lips.

Crew or equipment visible

When the camera cranes down behind Joe as he's making jokes with the Furry Tom puppet, a crew member, standing next to a ladder and other equipment is visible in the background to the right. This has been corrected in the Blu-ray release.
Obvious dummies when the cars are plummeting down the hill side.

Errors in geography

The aerial footage of the stadium of the climactic game was obviously shot during a Holiday Bowl at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium. The game is supposed to be at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
The telephone bill shows an address with a ZIP code of 90496. Although most Los Angeles ZIP codes start with "90" there is no 90496 ZIP code anywhere in the US of A (United States of America).

Plot holes

When Joe comes home from Las Vegas he notices very small details such as his wife's hair is dry and the toilet seat is up, but he didn't notice Mike's car parked across the street. Further. Detective McKaskey (Clarence Felder) told the other detective, "witnesses reported seeing Mike's car across the street the night before", to which the other detective replied, "why did he (Joe Hallenbeck) lie?". So if neighbors who aren't even detectives noticed the car, why didn't Joe? And how would they know what kind of car Mike drove or who he was? If it had been in the driveway then they might know that it was neither Joe's nor his wife's car.

Character error

Never in the history of organized crime have players been bribed to score points. They're bribed to shave points.

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