No Retreat, No Surrender

Continuity mistake: When Scott backs RJ against the railing in front of the burger joint, some fellow bullies in the background change position between shots (the dude with the little ponytail had his left arm raised in guard and it's down, the guy with the horizontal stripes is suddenly with folded arms). (00:21:40)

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Continuity mistake: RJ tried to kick Scott away but only pushed himself off the table. Scott picks him up; the light of the two shots is blatantly different. (00:21:50)

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Continuity mistake: Scott white-knights the poor RJ that is being cradled into oblivion by the bulky bully. He jumps over the railing and kicks Scott; obvious is the lack of continuity; the guy with the striped white and green shirt that had folded arms and now is just standing there with his arms low is very obvious, but Scott himself was holding RJ by the thigh and in the second shot, to facilitate the kick, he is holding it by the far end of the leg. (00:22:05)

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Continuity mistake: Kelly removes the ribbon from the package in close-up; it falls towards the camera, but in the previous shot her hand was sweeping the corner of the box away from that direction. (00:35:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Scott pervs Kelly and Jason making out, his right hand is down. In the closer angle when he holds back Dean though, his hand started already up, rubbing his belly. (00:36:35)

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Continuity mistake: Ian Reilly approaches the three guys who called him over his own dojo. The goons on both sides have a different position between the two shots - for instance, the one to the boss'right does not and then does indeed have his hand on the ring. (00:37:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Scott throws the drink on the back of Jason's shirt, Kurt McKinney is casting a huge shadow right on the face of Dale Jacoby, unlike what happens when they talk. (00:39:05)

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Continuity mistake: Jason gets kicked over the buffet table. A girl in a dress watches the scene with one hand under her chin, both hands together, hands separate. (00:39:40)

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Continuity mistake: Dean finishes his absolute beatdown of the protagonist putting a knee on his back and choking him against a bench. He's holding the bench gripping the tip of the feet first. Deeper down in the next. (00:40:05)

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Continuity mistake: After suffering a humiliating beatdown, Jason drives to Bruce Lee's tomb. During the scene the difference in lighting when the camera is closer to the car and when it's in other positions is like day and night, almost at least; the car is moderately lit by direct sunlight in the former, and the other shots were made later in the day when the last rays had gone, in a stark change. (00:41:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Jason is kneeling by the tomb begging the dead corpse of Bruce Lee to help him deal with the bullies (like any normal, not insane person would), he is gripping the corner of the monument's base in one shot, his own knee in the shot before, and after. (00:41:55)

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Continuity mistake: RJ and Jason have just dumped all the garage junk in the conveniently spare uninhabited house the kid happens to know of. When Jason says "You go ahead, RJ" they are both suddenly sitting in different positions than before. (00:46:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Jason stares for the first time at "sensei Lee" (who does not look like Bruce Lee, who not being japanese can hardly be called a 'sensei'), his posture is different between shots, and so is the shadow that the 'ghost' casts on him. (00:49:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Bruce Lee writes on the wall a Chinese character, the hand in close-up is casting a shadow towards the right, and in the shot with the actual actors the shadow is on the left. (00:50:10)

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Continuity mistake: The ghost of Bruce Lee one-inch-punches Jason; he falls against the wall with his tie dropping between his arm and the body, but in the next shot the tie is on the outside of the arm. (00:53:25)

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Continuity mistake: The patch of sweat on Jason's shirt gets bigger (from above to below the pecs) in the short walk from the training machine to the wooden dummy. (00:55:35)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jason's dad is bar tender pouring a beer for a customer. The level of the beer in the glass and the head size of the beer changes at least four times by the time he reaches the pool table. (00:59:10 - 00:59:50)

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Continuity mistake: In his training with Sensei Lee, at one point he grabs Jason's leg in the air and asks him "what now?" Between shots Tae-jeong Kim 's hand gets further away from the knee, and Kurt McKinney's that was holding the leg itself is now on Lee's finger-pointing hand. (01:00:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Tom Stillwell is being harassed by what looks like an overgrown Scott, the wet spot on his shirt and the messy hair on his forehead change as he walks away. (01:03:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the bar where Jason's dad is working, the establishing shot shows already the drunk guy downing a drink, with the billiard balls set up in the traditional triangular shape that leads to the break shot. When we actually see the break shot though, the balls are not in the same formation. For instance, the green ball was the third one from the left in the bottom row, and it's the corner left in the overhead shot. (01:03:25)

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Factual error: During the karate tournament towards the end of the movie if you'll notice the American flags in the background you'll see that they are displayed improperly. Whether flags are being displayed horizontally or vertically, the stars should always be on the left side of the flag.

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