Continuity mistake: After the truck smashes through the drug deal location, there's a brief intermission with Julie trying to open her cuffs, saying "Go, go, go," and then Sanchez fires at a bad guy on the scaffolds, killing him. A few seconds of hectic action pass, Julie detonates the barrels, and Marcus looks up and shoots another villain on the scaffolds. As he falls, you can see another one close by; it's the same guy who died earlier. (01:44:50 - 01:45:25)
Continuity mistake: Marcus opens a locker inside Mike's house and fetches two boxes of ammo from it. Look at his body when he is about to close it; he reveals the content of the locker, with a pair of handcuffs shining in the darkness of the bottom shelf. When Julie looks inside to get her handcuff keys, the handcuffs themselves are in a different part of the locker. (01:30:00)
Continuity mistake: When Marcus's sons yell to call their mom, in the first shot she is holding sunflowers, keeping them straight, stem fully vertical. In the next shot, it's at an angle. (01:29:40)
Continuity mistake: Fouchet dies with a dramatic close-up of Tcheky Karyo tilting his head to the left as he draws his last breath. Then an overhead shot just shows him facing up. (01:53:10)
Continuity mistake: After Fouchet is hit, he still manages to crawl a bit on the tarmac, his head well away from the painted part in the overhead shot. When Marcus taunts his "punk a$$," the close-up on Tcheky Karyo shows him against the white painted asphalt. (01:51:54)
Continuity mistake: When Jojo is complaining about the guard dogs being lazy and overfed, the bracelet on his wrist turns between cuts. (01:24:20)
Continuity mistake: Marcus falls on a big pile of trash after he unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate his own home. The garbage bins fall with their lids facing outwards, towards the street. Mike and Theresa lean from the window, and an overhead shot of the garbage mess is shown. By any basic rule of cinematography and film logic, that is their POV, what they see. However, they "see" the trash cans facing towards them, towards the house. (01:21:25)
Continuity mistake: During the argument with the crazy and possibly murderous shopkeeper, there's a cut to Julie saying he's got "a cannon." He then shouts, "What do you want?" pointing said cannon towards where Martin Lawrence would be, but then in the reverse shot, it's pointed at Will Smith. Also, when they get him by surprise, their guns are in frame coming from the side, but they were standing in front of him in the rest of the scene. (01:16:00)
Continuity mistake: At Club Hell, Marcus is fighting with the flashily dressed bandit, Casper. Meanwhile, sharing screen time with Will Smith, a foot with red varnish on the toes. Cut to Martin Lawrence getting choked, and back to Will Smith. The foot now has no painted toenails. One could assume that since it's off-screen, more than a stripper was on stage. Mike is looking to his left both times though, and the girl that we don't see is lying down. Two performers would have to be crawling on top of each other. (01:07:40)
Continuity mistake: During the fight scene inside the bathroom of Club Hell, the biker dude throws Marcus against the second-to-last mirror, breaking it. He then does it again... again against the second-to-last mirror. That is back whole, shattering it again. A huge chunk of it, practically the whole right half of it, comes off. But in the next shot, there's a small hole only, same when you see it in the background later. The closer look at the mirror that breaks much more probably is supposed to be the one that Marcus breaks off-camera with the cabinet. (01:07:10)
Continuity mistake: Marcus is showing mugshots to Julie on the computer. He gets on the mugshot of a "Trafficante, Noah," which turns out to be the right guy. He already hit "next," though, and the picture of a "Catrini, Robert" starts appearing. Julie tells him, "Go back, go back." Marcus is already on the profile of a "Leachman, Todd," but a single click brings him back to Trafficante. Catrini disappeared. Funnily enough, in a later flashback (when Julie, at home, holds a gun apparently for the first time and decides to go to Club Hell and see if she can single-handedly take on the Mob) the pictures are in the right order; Catrini came back. (00:55:55)
Continuity mistake: Running suspect pictures, Tea Leoni tells Marcus that he's eating "flesh." Martin Lawrence's fingers change position on the sandwich between shots almost constantly throughout the scene. (00:54:25)
Continuity mistake: Inside Mike's apartment, Julie asks Fake Mike who is the guy in all those pictures. In close-up, you can see some frames have been readjusted to look better; look at the ornate silver frame next to the picture of Mike with a basketball. The two frames were a couple of inches apart; now they are closer. (00:53:25)
Continuity mistake: On the basketball court, Mike shows off nailing a three-pointer on his first try when the captain couldn't land any. When he looks at Will Smith's ball flying over him and into the basket, the captain has a cigar in his mouth, but Joe Pantoliano in the reaction shot that follows has none. (00:50:45)
Continuity mistake: Marcus ends the phone call with Julie, saying, "Mike to the rescue." He suddenly has his left hand on the microphone. (00:35:00)
Continuity mistake: There's a rubber flower (a toy sunflower with sunglasses) on Mike's desk. When Captain Howard answers the phone, it goes from fully straight and vertical to hunched over as the shot changes. Throughout the whole duration of the scene, the flower is straight in the wider shots with Pantoliano standing by the desk, and 'wilted' when the framing is focused on Martin Lawrence. (00:33:20)
Continuity mistake: Inside the Al Capone suit, Captain Howard asks the Bad Boys who the guy on the chair is. "Eddie Dominguez," says one. The captain is chewing gum, arms down at his side. In what's supposed to be an immediate follow-up, Martin Lawrence adds, "Yeah, the ex-cop." Joe Pantoliano in the foreground is taking a puff from a cigar instead. (00:29:05)
Continuity mistake: When Martin Lawrence is under the desk with the rotting corpse on top, on the couch behind him there is a document with a slight pink hue. The document is straight throughout the scene, except for the shot when Lawrence gets up, when it's tilted. (00:20:10)
Continuity mistake: When Mike is being randomly racist against the two Hispanic cops in front of the police locker, Will Smith's hands are close to his body, thumbs up, and he is half a step behind Martin Lawrence. One of the cops answers him with a "yo mama" joke, but in the foreground Will Smith's hands are in a different position and Lawrence is more distant from him and slightly behind. (00:13:50)
Continuity mistake: At the breakfast table, Marcus asks Mike, "Why you put me in this, man?" His son is picking a bit of food from the plate. The phone rings across the camera cut, and the sentence continues ("I'm with my babies"), but the kid's hand is off the table by his hip. He's back chewing on the food, with that hand raised only when, a few seconds later, the exact camera angle from before is used again. (00:11:35)
