Best thriller movie continuity mistakes of 1996

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Continuity mistake: When Mel Gibson pulls up at the road crossing, there is a red car in front of him. But in the next shot when all the kids walk across the road, it is gone. Then in the next shot, it returns.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where the lion is trying to get into the tree where Val Kilmer's hiding, it flashes to the lion, then Pitt, then the lion again. On the first lion flash its face is clean, then on the second lion flash its face is covered in blood.

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Continuity mistake: During the scenes on the makeshift snowboard Jackie uses to evade the skiing soldiers, every time you see Jackie's face he is standing left foot forward on the board, but whenever you cannot see his face he is standing right foot forward. (00:19:45)

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Continuity mistake: At the pool, Dosmo's grip on his gun repeatedly changes from one to two handed between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Grant goes down to the main cabin and is looking around for the sleeper, the fringe of his hair goes from up and pushed back to all hanging down without him touching it.

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Continuity mistake: The last time Shakes serves as an altar boy for Father Bobby, he puts the white coat on top of the black gown, and it is all straight. Yet, when he turns to Father Bobby, the coat is lopsided and hangs over his left shoulder, and Father Bobby straightens it again. Even if the coat slides a little when Shakes leans towards the mirror right before turning to Father Bobby, it wouldn't pass his shoulder unless he did it on purpose. (00:28:20)

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Thinner picture

Continuity mistake: Before Halleck eats the cursed pie, a fork appears next to the pie between shots.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ashe is burying his son, when they show his face as he's piling up the dirt there are no black lines on his forehead, yet in the next scene when they show him on his motorcycle, the black lines are back on his forehead.

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Continuity mistake: When Hugh Grant first goes underground and is interrogated by the "Mole" people, his arms are held behind his back and the hair on his forehead changes between shots. His hair appears combed back in several shots and some wisps hanging down in others. They alternate back and forth between shots.

Randy DeShong

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Continuity mistake: When the Siamese fighter (Chris's old friend) is defeated by the Mongolian fighter, Chris wipes the blood from his friend onto the Mongolian fighter. When he wipes the Mongolian, no blood is there. The blood does not appear on the Mongolian until Chris is walking off.

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Head Above Water picture

Continuity mistake: When Cameron Diaz is telling her husband about Kent, there is a boat outside the window. The boat moves in a weird way. It goes from one side to the other in the same camera angle.

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Continuity mistake: When Lee goes to see her father, she gets up to leave and Cahill has his cigarette in the left side of his mouth, when the scene cuts to Lee leaving it is in the right side of his mouth. When they do the close-up it is back in the left side of his mouth.

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Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie when Sandra Bullock character is in the hospital and the nurse revealed to her that Carl Lee was innocent, look carefully at the TV. You can see Jake, Harry Rex and Lucent standing outside the courthouse, but in the very next scene they haven't even left the courtroom.

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Continuity mistake: When David goes into the Dodson Hotel to look for Eddie, the glass door he enters through is completely normal. When he runs out chasing Eddie, he goes out the same entrance and this time the right glass door has a huge hole and is shattered. (00:47:40 - 00:49:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Janice and Guy are lying on the stairs of his loft apartment one of her shoes falls off. In the next shot it's back on her foot.

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