Best action movie mistakes of 2014

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Factual error: In the rat revival scene, Dr. Terra Wade, an electrophysiologist, demands that the other scientist, Dr. Bell increase the current, going as high as 200 joules. However, current is measured in amperes (amps), joules is a unit of energy.

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Continuity mistake: During the actual interview, when Kim Jong-un pulls the gun on Dave and starts taunting him, the scene shifts between several angles in which he is holding the gun normally, barrel above the hand, but then cuts to an angle in which he is holding the gun sideways in the "gangsta" style, with no gaps in between for him to have switched positions.

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Plot hole: Towards the end the Rich Purgers call for reinforcements, and Shane, Leo, Eva and Cali are hiding behind a wall. A guy somehow opens a door in front of them (without being seen by the three facing him), exposes himself and shoots only Shane, numerous times, to cause his death. He should have been spotted by the people looking in his direction. Also, if he was that well hidden he could have simply sprayed the entire group. He unloaded 5 or 6 shots to Shane's chest...when he could have taken them all out.

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Continuity mistake: When the Dark Aster enters the atmosphere at the end of the film, its wings untwist as it descends, in most of the scenes afterwards and the hologram the ship's wings are still twisted, then later during the battle they untwist again.

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Continuity mistake: After cutting through Black Manta's gun, Aquaman then slams Manta in the face with his trident and knocks him down. As he is twirling his trident in victory, you can see his belt and its design. But then it cuts to a close up of Aquaman and suddenly his belt changes in design with the bar in the middle disappearing and the black of his pants extending further up onto his orange shirt in the belt area. (00:03:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the car with Alice goes over the cliff, and when she then exits, she is wearing shoes. When she awakens and begins climbing (and afterward), she has none.

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Plot hole: The main plot of the film involves Iris and Olson's mission: Destroying the Mobile Fortress 000. But Iris is a special gynoid. Her primary function is to activate the Mobile Fortress. The antagonist of this film could unleash calamity if he had Iris and the fortress. So, which idiot has sent Iris on this mission? The logical course was to send a demolition team, or better yet, send no-one at all. Anything is better than sending the activation key outside the safety of the Olympus.

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Continuity mistake: Hercules and Tarak are sitting together talking and Hercules pulls out the necklace that his lover gave him as he reassures Tarak that he will get them to Greece. In one shot he is looking down at it in his hands, then the next shot his head is suddenly leaning back against Tarak. (00:37:45)

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Character mistake: When the supply convoy is ambushed, Soto is instructed to get on the .50 caliber. However, the weapon on the gun ring is a .30 caliber M1919 machine gun, not a "Ma Deuce" .50 caliber.

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Continuity mistake: Hercules is bitten on his right shoulder by wolves towards the end. As they escape the dungeon the bites can been seen on that shoulder throughout. But as soon as they escape the bites are no longer there.

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Factual error: After Batman hits the Manbats with his sonar batterangs and they go nuts trying to escape the sound, some begin chewing at the glass separating them from the ocean in their desperation. This is in the under workings of an oil rig out in the ocean. Hundreds of pounds of pressure is on that glass. The Manbats chew through the glass, and then the water begins rushing in. All logic and laws of physics dictate that the Manbats would be pushed back, down into the oil rig further as water rushes in. However, as the water begins pouring in, 3 Manbats are somehow pushed out of the hole into the water, and are sitting still, long enough for a shark to grab one. Even if they did somehow manage to get out like that despite physics, the water rushing in the hole would have caused a vacuum and sucked them right back in. Yet they remain perfectly still in the water, only a couple feet or so away from the hole they just made.

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Character mistake: Nikki lost her insulin kit and needs insulin. Her mother suggests getting her a fruit juice, something sweet. Fruit juice contains a large amount of sugar which raises blood sugar levels very quickly. Therefore, people with diabetes are usually best to avoid drinking fruit juice. Her suggestion is absurd.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where James and Ben are interrogating Jay at the pawn shop, watch Jay's shirt. It changes from green to black.

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Audio problem: The one-eyed warrior who drags the prince inside the inn says "Look who I found skulking outside", but his mouth does not open. (00:21:40)

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Revealing mistake: In the news reel detailing the Kohinoor theft, a few headlines appear, and at least one persists on screen long enough to easily spot the inconsistency between headline and article (filler text presenting a new local magazine from the London district of Lambeth). (00:09:00)

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Continuity mistake: Everly opens the surprise as instructed, and tosses away in horror the lid of the gift box. The lid falls off the armchair, and yet a few seconds later, with nobody else alive in the room and the protagonist that never stopped freaking out on her knees, someone picked it up and it sits by the box. (00:09:30)

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Revealing mistake: JR is in the weapon container of the crazy dealer, who passes him some of his goods. JR ends up holding in his right arm a MP5K and an M4A1, which combined are about 5 kilos, but then he passes him an M60 Machine Gun, which weighs over 10 kilos and that the relatively diminutive protagonist just handles throughout the scene gripping it with his left hand and making no effort whatsoever. (00:25:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the Sargent and one other soldier gets down off the tank in the rain, the second soldier's facial expressions are completely changing between instant cuts. (00:05:40)

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Continuity mistake: Master Lui at his first appearance in the movie kills the traitor slicing his throat with burning tongs which he points right away at the eyes of the protagonist. Sammo Hung's grip on the tongs changes between shots. (00:11:00)

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Character mistake: Near the start, there's a misspelling of the word "Victim" in the newspaper heading "Police expect Beadie to mail latest victim's ID." Read by the man at the bar who is smoking a cigarette. (00:02:14)

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