Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

98 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: When the soldiers bring Indy to Weber, in the background Voller and the two soldiers with the lance can be spotted already leaving. After Weber finishes interrogating Indy, the three Germans are back in their original places with the lance.

Big Game

Character mistake: In the plane, Mason says that Voller's associates killed three American civilians. But they only killed two: Mandy and Plimpton.

Big Game

Continuity mistake: During the conversation in the Tuk-Tuk, Helena's right arm continuously goes from being down to grabbing the roof of the Tuk-Tuk between shots.

Big Game

Continuity mistake: Weber commands a soldier to open the Lance's box. In the shot of the soldier's hands, a ring has appeared on his left hand. This ring disappears again when Weber says "Doctor."

Big Game

Continuity mistake: When Indy horseback rides on the subway platform, the people stand behind the columns. A shot later from the opposite angle, they're all standing in the middle of the platform.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When the waiter arrives at the room where the Nazis are, all the papers and books on the table, plus the pencils, change positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Renaldo gives instructions on diving, he holds several cables. From the shot from behind, he is grabbing them close to a tape that holds them together. Shot changes and the grip differs, and the tape is gone.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: During the parade, after the red convertible skids, Indy's horse rears. When it turns around, check Indy's face and you'll notice that it's Harrison Ford's stunt.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy tries to make a phone call but is abducted by the baddies. There's a close-up of the phone and blood has suddenly appeared all over it.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Helena is doing the magic tricks, Renaldo reaches for the cards with both hands. Shot changes, and he is reaching just with one.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before the tuk tuk comes to a stop, a man in a blue djellabah is walking by next to it. When the tuk tuk stops, the man is suddenly 3 meters behind, repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

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Factual error: The crown on the logo of the Air Maroc plane is the modern 2013 version, not the one from 1969 when the movie is set.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy stops Basil from hammering the dial and makes the left side of his jacket open to reveal his shirt. Shot changes, and now the opening has swapped sides.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Indy horseback rides past a truck with a flag, then between a dozen of musicians while chased by a motorbike. When he looks behind him, the band has vanished and the truck is next to him again. This last shot belonged in the first place.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before Indy jumps on the horse during the parade, a man in a plaid shirt runs away. Shot changes, and he is back in the previous position, yet he is now walking slightly faster.

Sacha

Plot hole: When Indy is in the Nazi plane with Voller, Klaber, and Gunther, he speaks to Voller, calling him by his real full name, Jürgen Voller, although he has never heard it. Indy only knows Voller as Professor Schmidt, from Alabama University.

Continuity mistake: Gunther exits the van and shoots the guard of the airfield's gate, in his full movie costume. However, just a few seconds later, he's fully dressed as a SS Sergeant.

Continuity mistake: When the staff member at the college runs away from the bad guys to get help, and is quickly shot in the back by Voller's henchman, she falls forward on the floor, face down. Dead. But a short time later, when Indy discovers her body on the floor, he kneels down to attend to her (and looks at his hand to see her blood there), she is now lying face-up on her back.

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Suggested correction: The scenes take place many seconds later, thus the corpse could have been moved around. Check the furniture around her and you'll notice that she's been moved.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Inside the plane, Indy looks at his bleeding wound. Note how shiny and wet it is, as opposed to an instant shot later when it looks dry.

Sacha

Indiana Jones: I've believed in magic a few times in my life. I've seen things... things I can't explain. I've come to believe it's not so much what you believe... it's how hard you believe it.

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Trivia: This is the only film in the series in which the Paramount logo does not match-dissolve to a similar shape. The Lucasfilm logo does instead.

Phaneron

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Question: Is it ever explained how Voller managed to survive his encounter with being hit square in the face and falling off the speeding train without a scratch? My thoughts were that he touched the spear of destiny earlier (focused on in a scene) and became immortal, but Indy said it was fake. Plus, Voller dies at the end in 217BC. He also seems to have aged little compared to Indy. Is that a plot point they dropped or forgot about or something?

lionhead

Answer: It was never explained and seems impossible that anyone could survive such an impact. My own thought was the scene was deliberately exaggerated to appear as if Voller was killed in order to fool and then surprise the audience when he later turns up alive. I also thought it looked as if he hadn't aged. Voller may have been much younger than Indy, possibly as much as 25-30 years. When Voller reappears in the 1960s, he looks more like actor Mads Mikkelsen's actual age. The film should have made him look younger at the beginning. There's a lot of "suspension of disbelief" here.

raywest

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