Best action movie mistakes of 2015

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 picture

Continuity mistake: When Maya is trapped in the bathroom and the bad guy breaks in, she drops her pepper spray which you can see lying on the floor when the bad guy is talking on the phone. Shortly afterwards it's gone. (00:47:35)

Tonycdrive

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Mr. Right picture

Continuity mistake: When Anna Kendrick is making pancakes for her friend, in a shot of her from the front she isn't wearing her necklace, but in the second shot it shows her wearing it again. (00:24:35 - 00:26:15)

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Goosebumps picture

Plot hole: There was not enough time for Zach and the others to set the explosive mechanism in the school bus.

oswal13

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In the Heart of the Sea picture

Factual error: Herman Melville interviews whaling survivor Thomas Nickerson in Feb. 1850. Nickerson tells him "I heard a man from Pennsylvania drilled a hole in the ground recently and found oil." Oil was discovered in Titusville PA in 1859.

Astoria Red

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Spooks: The Greater Good picture

Revealing mistake: Right at the beginning of the film "rain" is falling on the car the camera shows before it moves to focus into the tunnel. However, look at the cars behind it, they aren't wet at all and it's visibly sunny. It's water being poured onto the car directly in front of the camera.

Liam D

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Point Break picture

Continuity mistake: After his fight with Bodhi, Utah gets one wound on his left cheekbone and one on his nose, both are gone when Johnnie is talking with his boss at the FBI office.

ozwal13

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Insurgent picture

Continuity mistake: When Tris saves Christina from falling and then rolls on to her back you can see her sports bra underneath. In the next scene, she and Tobias have a brief sex scene where she removes the same top, but there is no bra underneath.

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Riot picture

Continuity mistake: When he fights Chuck Lidell, he is wounded on the right side of his body. During a scene when he is lying on his side, the wound has moved to his left side and then magically reappears back on his right when he stands up.

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American Ultra picture

Continuity mistake: When Jesse Eisenberg seeks shelter at John Leguizamo's house, John Leguizamo pulls a gun on him. Jesse Eisenberg grabs the gun from John Leguizamo and in the close up of this action it's a completely different gun. (00:40:55)

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Blackhat picture

Factual error: When he is in the restaurant and looking at the security feed, he does a who command when it should be "whois". Also the IP is incorrect - the 3rd octet is 265, despite the maximum possible value being 255.

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Dragon Blade picture

Factual error: Near the end, Jackie Chan's vastly-outnumbered forces resort to throwing stones to somehow utterly destroy a phalanx of Roman legionnaires in close-quarter combat. This scene flies in the face of what we know about Roman military superiority in the time of Tiberius. The Roman Army was the best-trained, best-organized, best-equipped military force of the Ancient World, specializing in tireless close-quarter combat and impenetrable defense. To suggest that Jackie Chan's frantic and disorganized group of fighters (throwing stones by hand) might overcome Roman legionnaires is like suggesting that cave men might overcome the modern U.S. Marine Corps.

Charles Austin Miller

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Jupiter Ascending picture

Character mistake: The poster on the wall near the start reads "Our Egg Donor's [sic.] are helping to fulfill the dreams of women across America." There is an unnecessary apostrophe in the word "Donor's." (00:10:05)

Virgil

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Chappie picture

Continuity mistake: At the end, the TV newscaster reports that 150,000 reserve human forces have been activated. But the crawl strip at the bottom of the screen reads "150,000 RESERVED human forces," a different meaning altogether. (01:59:00)

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Revealing mistake: In the Senior Citizen bus tour scene, just when the bus stops and almost hits the piece of construction equipment, Sofia Vergara is fixing her handcuffs. She adjusts them because one has visibly fallen off her wrist.

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Run All Night picture

Continuity mistake: During the fight scene with the contract killer in the apartment building, the killer's coat catches fire. As the scene and fight continues, the coat is no longer on fire. (01:16:30)

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Survivor picture

Continuity mistake: After the opening scene in the Middle East, the scene cuts to an overview shot of London fading towards the U.S. Embassy. As the scene starts, the time on Big Ben is 3:05, but when the camera reaches the U.S. Embassy, the time read on the description at the bottom reads 8:15.

Casual Person

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High-Rise picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning while Laing goes to the pool area he says hi to the pregnant woman in the water, and there is a girl beside her who switches side from shot to shot. (00:15:30)

oswal13

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Admiral picture

Factual error: At the beginning of the movie, the Battle of Scheveveningen (1653) is depicted. However some of the British ships sport a gaff-rigged mizzen spanker, which was not introduced until late in the next century.

goofyfoot

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Landmine Goes Click picture

Continuity mistake: Ilya is standing across from and about midway between Chris and Alicia. He spears the shovel into the ground, but it unintentionally falls over to his right (mostly off-screen). The next view of the shovel shows it has fallen to Ilya's left. (The entire shovel is to the right of Chris, which would be too far regardless of which direction the shovel's handle fell.) In the next view, the shovel's blade is opposite Chris' left foot and later the angle is different. (00:36:30)

KeyZOid

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