Sammo

Revealing mistake: In the sequence with the ninja knocking two policemen off their bikes at the funeral, the one on the right goes down (not to dodge, but acting like he's being hit) a second before her foot actually hits. (01:05:40)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: At the funeral, Ninja Christie shoots two arrows. She prepares to shoot a third, but meanwhile (in the shot where a widow is looking around worried and a man in a light suit pulls her away) another guy just dies for no reason hit by something invisible. (01:05:10)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: The first time we see the legendary Sho Kosugi properly in action, he knocks out a guard, then he throws a shuriken at another and fights him. He dodges his baton, kicks him, and then you can see clear as day the awkward moment when the stuntman just stops and waits for the follow-up push-kick towards the dumpster. (00:55:20)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: Christie is fighting the dudes hanging out in the alley of the gym. She knocks down the first two, then she does a weird move with her feet on the third one. The cooperation from the stuntman is blatant there. (00:24:15)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: Police cars get to the golf course, where the ninja somehow is still hanging out in the open. The footage of the car doing a U turn beginning to chase him is sped-up to Benny Hill levels. (00:06:00)

Sammo

Revealing mistake: The evil ninja blows a dart inside the barrel of a gun making it explode when the bodyguard fires. Forgetting the fact that the movement is unnatural and patently phony since the film is reversed, the dart also fully 'disappears' inside the gun and yet again when we see the guy about to shoot there's an inch-long of dart sticking out of the gun. (00:04:20)

Sammo

13th May 2022

The Tiger Mask (2013)

Revealing mistake: During Black Mask's fight against Salamander, he dodges the enemy's fire and then sweeps him off his feet. But Salamander's fall is blocked in midair by obvious wirework to give Tiger a chance to punch him in midair. (00:32:00)

Sammo

13th May 2022

The Tiger Mask (2013)

Revealing mistake: When the kids are fighting and one of them puts the other in a Boston Crab hold, a third kid, the main character, breaks up the fight by, well, embarrassing to say, poking the assailant in the butthole with two fingers. Jo rolls away and keeps screaming indicating that he got hurt not just in his pride, but you could easily see that no such action was actually perpetrated. (00:19:15)

Sammo

13th May 2022

The Tiger Mask (2013)

Revealing mistake: The female head trainer of the Tiger's Den puts a blindfold on and with a kick KOs the trainee that was sparring with the children. In the close-up of the kick you can see it is miles away from connecting. (00:17:05)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Revealing mistake: When Jack punches the old lady, he swings way off target, and also 'she' (the stuntwoman, really) turns towards the counter and uses her arms to push herself to the other side. (00:04:45)

Sammo

13th May 2022

Trancers (1985)

Revealing mistake: When he old lady jumps over the counter to attack Jack with a cleaver, she is replaced for the physical struggle by a younger person; you can see her face when the two struggle against the table. (00:04:55)

Sammo

10th May 2022

Alligator (1980)

Revealing mistake: During the party, one of the security guys shoots the alligator, who then whips him with the tail. The guy flies in the air, and to the left of the screen when he falls there's a string plainly visible to help moving the tail. (01:15:45)

Sammo

10th May 2022

Alligator (1980)

Revealing mistake: A policeman hilariously crashes his car because he was coming in too fast when the kids escaped the molegator. The car that explodes has square, all red emergency lights, but the car that was speeding through the street had red and blue lights of a different shape. (00:44:50)

Sammo

10th May 2022

Alligator (1980)

Revealing mistake: Obvious B-movie special effect when the alligator breaks through the sidewalk, supposedly creating earthquake-like tremors that are simply someone shaking the camera up and down and the cement bends and deforms like cardboard. (00:44:00)

Sammo

10th May 2022

Alligator (1980)

Revealing mistake: Gutchel brings in the sewers the animal carcasses using the supermarket cart. He gets inside, then passes a first tunnel, then another one...or rather, passes the exact same tunnel as before, but in the other direction, to make it look like he travelled a bigger length - just check the graffiti on the wall, it's the same one. (00:09:25)

Sammo

Magical Express Murder Case: File 3 - S2-E12

Revealing mistake: Akechi learns about Reiko Chikamiya's death from the newspaper. It's not a very respectful newspaper, since at first glance you can see in the body of the article a big "DUH." A column away, you can also read "he's the best running back in the X-league", which certainly the middle aged woman wasn't. (00:15:40)

Sammo

6th May 2022

Lupin the 3rd (1971)

2nd May 2022

Ghostbusters (1984)

Revealing mistake: Tully just ran away from the apartment building screaming. The doorman repeats to an incoming couple "A bear, in his apartment..." The husband pulls his wife back without for a single moment glancing at the direction the beast (or its growl) come from; he stares constantly at the foreground. (00:54:00)

Sammo

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