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Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, and Chris Pine in This Means War (2012)

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This Means War

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Continuity

Tuck's son Joe is missing two of his upper front teeth when meeting with Lauren in the school. In the next scene, Joe is missing two of his lower teeth.
When Maya comes over to FDR's house for her Tuesday layover, her hair is up/down between shots.
In the final chase sequence at the end of the bridge, they shoot and break the headlights of the silver van to open its airbag. But after that when the car hits the guardrail the lights are not broken.
When the Volkswagen Beetle is being escorted by Heinrich, the convertible top is down. When it is mid-air heading into the pond, the top is up but not locked into position. Then the close up in the pond shows the top down again.
When FDR and Tuck are fighting in the restaurant they fall from an upper level to a lower level. Initially, when they are both falling, it appears that they will miss the table. In the next cut, they both land on the table.

Factual errors

The section of the movie store in front of which Lauren and FDR bump into each other for the first time is the "drama" section. Most of the movies seen on the shelves in this section, e.g. "Aliens", "Marmaduke", "Predators", "Ice Age"... etc., can hardly be considered "drama".

Revealing mistakes

Although the VW was hit from both ends at the restaurant, when the VW is speeding along the unfinished freeway, there is no damage to the car at all.
In the sushi bar scene, the neon sushi sign is facing inward and reads "SUSHI". It should be facing outward for which it would read "IHSUS" inside the restaurant.

Anachronisms

At the end of the film you can see the actors breath as they talk. Story takes place in Los Angeles.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

In the scene where Tuck and FDR are being scolded after Hong Kong, Tuck starts talking but his mouth does not move until the angle changes.

Errors in geography

In the 'Hong Kong' scene, at street level we can see the licence plates on cars have white lettering/numbering on a blue background. Hong Kong cars have black-on-white at the front, and black-on-yellow at the rear. In Fact, those car plates belong to Shanghai, according to the beginning "Hu" of the plates.
The movie was shot in Vancouver, although it was set in LA. In one scene, Trish is seen in her kitchen, with a box of President's Choice cereal. President's Choice is a primarily Canadian brand (although available in certain U.S. states) and would not be found in California.
At the first part of the film, when the helicopter is seen flying towards the Hong Kong skyline, the surrounding and the buildings more or less resemble Vancouver, not Hong Kong as the skyscrapers are close together.

Character error

When FDR and Lauren go to the animal shelter, FDR opens a cage and lets a vicious dog out and fights to get it back into the cage, but doesn't close the cage door. It stays open for the rest of the scene.
Tom Hardy character has an English accent, at least part of the time. CIA is not a UK entity.

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Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, and Chris Pine in This Means War (2012)
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