Best crime movie continuity mistakes of 2013

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Fast & Furious 6 picture

Continuity mistake: During the chase scene on the bridge involving the tank, two cars (silver Toyota Corolla hatchback, licence NE34 12 and a black VW Bora, licence NU67 67) appear during many shots, often travelling in different directions on the bridge and either ahead or behind the chase.

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Continuity mistake: When Teresa is yelling and hitting Jordan because he cheated on her with the blonde girl in the limo, the car disappears and reappears between shots. (01:00:35)

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Continuity mistake: In the shot where Holly is done injecting Anna with the syringe and stands up to shoot at Detective Loki, the syringe and two "medicine/poison" bottles are all close together next to Anna's hair. Next three shots showing the room far out with Holly getting shot and killed has the two bottles next to the edge of the rug and very far from Anna's hair, as well as the syringe which is slightly closer, but far away. The next shot of Loki picking up Anna has the syringe and bottles in their original position next to Anna's hair.

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Continuity mistake: As Dylan and Fuller approach the Horsemen's apartment, there is a close-up of the apartment door's doorknob that shows the door is only open a few inches. From a low angle of Dylan opening the door, the door is now open almost halfway. (01:16:25)

Casual Person

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Continuity mistake: When Sandy takes a taxi and goes to Diane's house, as he is arguing with her, the sweat pattern on his shirt changes several times as the scene switches from him to her and back.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene when Yuri's daughter is getting away from the hotel, the color of the chopper changes from green to brown between shots.

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Continuity mistake: At the end when Frank brings a suitcase with a bomb on the plane where Bailey is pointing a gun at Sarah, he puts the suitcase on a table. When Frank drops his gun, the table is empty. The suitcase reappears a second later when Sarah goes to Frank.

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Continuity mistake: While Shannon and Sarah are speaking to Robin, two people (a blond white guy and a black guy with a blue satchel) pass by the trio twice.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene when Papi is in the back of the white Fodge driven by Stig, the Ford Bronco driven by Bobby crashes into Stig's white Dodge twice - both headlights are smashed out. Once the Bronco goes into the ditch and comes back out, the passenger side headlight isn't broken.

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Continuity mistake: When Dave is shot by Mindy while training, there are two bullet holes in his jacket when he has only been shot once at that point.

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Continuity mistake: Bobby takes their red Charger and plows it through a locked gate. You see in the close up a lock on the chain, but it cuts to a further shot just as the car hits the gate and the lock is in a different position for the brief moment it can be seen. (00:06:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Selena Gomez and Ethan Hawke were driving through the train station being chased by the last of the thugs on a bike, she says 'look out', and shortly after that, the side mirror on the passenger side of the car was knocked of when the car scrapped against the side walk and was shown in several shots following that to have been detached from the car. But subsequently after the chase was over, the side mirror magically reappears, attached to the car.

Vinotemia

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Continuity mistake: Billy Taggart gets invited to Mayor Hostetler's office. You see as soon as they sit down that there is a grey/black blanket with a pattern next to Russell Crowe. From this point the blanket changes in shape each time. And suddenly after a couple times back and forth shots between them, the blanket is beige/white. Than finally they switch again and it becomes the first blanket again. (00:18:40 - 00:20:10)

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Continuity mistake: The Counselor's watchband during the long phone call about choices, fate, and grief with Jefe changes the direction in which it is latched several times throughout the scene. It is quite prominent because it is on the arm he is using to hold the phone. (01:35:00 - 01:40:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Ray drives through the fields, the headrests inside the Camaro ZL1 show SS instead of ZL1. (01:22:10)

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Continuity mistake: When the squad arrives at the hotel to arrest Mickey, they are on the street with two cars behind them, but in the upper view those cars disappear. (01:33:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Parker is lying down in the truck after being rescued, you can hear the old man talking to him (stay still) and you can immediately see the boy on the side wearing a dark colored T-shirt, but when the old man says "we got you" the same boy is not wearing a T-shirt. (00:20:45)

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Continuity mistake: Michelle Pfeiffer's costume. First we see her toes being painted, drying with tissue between each of her toes. She gets up from the chair to take the peppers out of the oven, talking to Fred about being a writer. She then goes out the door across the street with socks on and Fred's slippers. She never put on any socks or pulled out the tissue.

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Continuity mistake: When Ivan invites Richie onto his yacht for the first time, a jet ski pulls into Ivan's close-up, and disappears after it cuts back.

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Continuity mistake: During the opening scene of the film we see two boxers fighting in Julian's boxing club. The fighter in red trunks knocks out the one in blue trunks and is announced the winner. Two men then come into the ring and, between shots, we see them pick up the loser off the floor twice. (00:02:51)

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