Criminal

Continuity mistake: Jerico turns his back to Jill in the basement, telling her to go feed her daughter. She has second thoughts and points the gun at him. Costner is shown leaning on the column to his right, but he's leaning on the left one in the next shot. (01:11:55)

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Continuity mistake: Bill Pope just went off the stolen bike and is descending the stairs to the tube; people around him change completely between shots (he moves past a short haired woman dressed in black that is a few steps ahead of him, too). (00:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: Jerico causes the car crash to happen, and one of the agents is propelled out of the car through the windshield. You can see him roll on the asphalt at distance. In the rest of the scene his body is at an angle and on the foliage. (00:34:15)

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Continuity mistake: When the Dutchman gets shot in the head, his laptop is completely open, 180° like a book. In the previous part of the scene, and when later the CIA agents hurry in, the laptop is open to a more traditional 90-ish degree. (01:31:35)

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Continuity mistake: Jerico comes out of the fish 'n chips place with food and a coke. A cyclist is travelling along the road. In the next shot a passerby that was not there before is behind him, and the cyclist is passing again. (00:37:10)

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Continuity mistake: Jerico is carried into the operating space. Look out for the nurse that is holding the bed by the lever on the bottom left corner; she is using her right hand to pull, then her left hand in the next shot. (00:20:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Pope messages his colleague from the cab driver's phone, the time on display is 13:49. When the phone is used as GPS to get to the destination, there has been a sudden jump and it's 14:57. (00:05:10 - 00:05:55)

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Continuity mistake: After losing Jerico at the bridge, Elsa brings a bowl of nuts to Xavier Heimdahl. The bowl has a nutcracker on top, which changes place after he shouts at her and goes back where it was at the end. (01:07:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Emma is teaching Jerico some notes on the piano, she tells him "Put your hand there", but said hand is the left in the close-up, but the right in the shot that immediately follows. (01:16:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Elsa points a gun at Jill in the bathroom, she is holding the gun diagonally with the camera on her left, straight in the shot from the right, and it switches back. (01:22:40)

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Continuity mistake: In the film's finale, just before Quaker says "It's unbelievable", Gal Gadot's ponytail flips direction, from her right shoulder to her left. (01:44:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Xavier Heimdahl enters the license plate Elsa gave him, the driver's data is already in a window in the upper left corner before he inputs it. (00:04:45)

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Continuity mistake: The agent presents Dr. Franks his badge. He lowers the other hand, which carries a folder. The folder arm is back up in the reverse shot. (00:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the basement, Jerico passes the brush to Jill; the bristles are pointed up, then down. (01:11:45)

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Factual error: The villain performs his hit at the beginning of the movie by remotely changing the GPS destination of a cab, so they head to the wrong place and into an ambush. Assuming that neither the cabbie or Pope notice the change on screen, and that his sophisticated software silenced the voice announcement of the course being recalculated, and makes the new place also marked as the old one (it is after all a god-like movie software), the trick is done on on a London black cab, whose drivers are notorious for "The Knowledge", aka being required to learn the entire topografy of the city in one of the most demanding training courses in the world, and not using GPS. It'd be definitely unlikely for the cab driver to be totally unaware, to the point of Pope himself noticing first that they are at the wrong place.

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More mistakes in Criminal

Dr. Franks: You had an injury to your head. You got hurt, right? When you were young? Do you remember how it happened?
Jericho Stewart: Yeah. My mother told my daddy that he wasn't my daddy. So he called her a whore and throw... me out the car window.

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