Alligator II: The Mutation

Continuity mistake: David goes downstairs and finds out about his surprise birthday party. The tape recorder and the other objects on the table change position between shots around the ugliest cake ever. (00:05:25)

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Continuity mistake: David is taking a walk after the exposition scene with his coroner friend and his wife. An Hispanic woman is talking with a douchy realtor; she has her hands and forearms on the table, they are gone from the table at the cut. (00:14:00)

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Continuity mistake: David arrived home late for his birthday and his wife is mighty irritated; she serves him on purpose a couple of completely charcoaled steaks. However, the food looks completely different in the close-up (there's much less of it, for starters). (00:15:45)

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Continuity mistake: David drops by to the club where the uber-rich baddie is relaxing, and turns out his ideal pastime is dining ringside while hairy wrestlers bodyslam each other on his table. In one of the opening shots he and his associates grab their glasses from the table, but in the wider shot when Professor Tanaka picks up Alexi Smirnoff, their glasses are still on the table, and back in their hands later. (00:20:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Smirnoff brutalizes Tanaka's nose, he does it without holding him at first, but he has him in a headlock in the next shot. Even more obvious discontinuity after Hodges' bathroom antics, when Smirnoff has his opponent in a sleeper hold (so he's behind him) but instantly in the next shot he is in front of him and bites his face (all of this with the announcer Count Billy Varga talking continuously). (00:24:20 - 00:24:55)

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Continuity mistake: After a close-up on Wildman Jack Armstrong, we see a homeless guy eating with a spoon. He turns around, and in the next shot while still being turned around his left hand traded the food with a flaming stick. (00:28:20)

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Continuity mistake: An Hispanic gang approaches David as he is about to have a smoke. He raises his lighter, the head honcho of the gang picks his cigarette, and David raises again the hand he already raised. (00:32:50)

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Continuity mistake: When David approaches the homeless guy on the stretcher, he's lying with his hands under the sheet in the first shot, arms crossed on top of the sheet in the next. (00:36:35)

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Continuity mistake: Chief Speed and the mayor are talking; Mr. Anderson says "C'mon Clarence, there's a lot at stake this weekend." Clarence Speed is holding a black ID. In the next shot he's holding a pink lighter, the ID is in another spot on the desk. (00:37:20)

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Continuity mistake: Thanks to a well-placed compliment about her "backyard", Harmon scores an instant date with the mayor's daughter. They go from the police station to a bar, and somehow en route she has changed hairstyle entirely. (00:40:30)

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Continuity mistake: Agent Rich Harmon applies the good old dating strategy of telling a sob story about his childhood. Sheri's hair moves from all in front of her right shoulder, to all in front of the left shoulder (and she is also not holding/ holding her glass). (00:41:10)

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Continuity mistake: When David talks with his wife, the rest of the team and then also Chief Speed outside the manhole, the natural light (quantity of light behind the SUV) changes depending on the camera angle. (00:51:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Harmon with a bloody nose suggests that there's gotta be some army ordinance stuff they can use, Sheri next to him has hair all over the left shoulder. It's gone in the wider shot. (00:51:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Hodges, Harmon and Hawk put together the 6 sticks of dynamite, Hawk's thumb is below or above Hodges', depending on the angle. (01:03:35)

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Continuity mistake: Vinny Brown visits his realtor, who tells him to "tell those lowlives to shut up." Cut, and both Steve Railsback and Elkanah Burns' hands are in a different position (the realtor put already down the papers, but now he still has to, and Brown moved the hand away from the railing but it's back fully on it). (01:03:55)

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Continuity mistake: After the alligator eats the bomb, the three hunters decide to split. When David suggests it, the strap goes across his chest a different way in the two shots. (01:07:05)

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Continuity mistake: Christine throws Hawkins' cigarette in the manhole and runs back to the truck; David in the first shot does not have his hand on his chest, but he does in the next. (01:08:20)

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Continuity mistake: On the helicopter at the end, both survivors grab headsets; David when the camera is on the left has a very noticeable wet curl in the middle of the forehead he doesn't have in the shots from the right. (01:21:20)

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Other mistake: David's wife is looking inside the microscope at what she describes as a protein found in the saliva. It does not quite look like a protein, and in fact it's a reused (it's exactly the same) microscope image from the previous movie, where Marisa identified it as" a section of the pituitary glans of a Lhasa Apso." (00:12:00 - 00:51:25)

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