Continuity mistake: At the opening scene people jump out of a 4x4, and the guy with the yellow half cap on reaches for the object on the 4x4's floor twice. (00:00:35)
Visible crew/equipment: Right at the start there is a shot of a camera panning up over a 4x4. When it does you can see the camera's shadow moving over the paint. (00:00:55)
Continuity mistake: Right at the beginning when Tej is talking to Jimmy on the phone, there is an orange and white car in the background, but when he is walking out of the garage, the car is gone. (00:01:00)
Continuity mistake: When Brian is called to get to the race at the beginning, as he's getting into his Skyline, the blue neon light at the bottom of the car turns on, but as he's leaving the garage, the light turns on again. (00:03:05)
Continuity mistake: Just after Tej has called Brian, in one particular shot Suki is standing on the left side of her car, yet 2 seconds later, she's at the other side of the car gearing up her fellow ladies. (00:03:35)
Continuity mistake: When we see Brian driving over the bridge to get to the race, the position of the other cars in relation to him keeps changing instantly. (00:03:45)
Revealing mistake: When Brian is racing to the start of the first race, we see him do a double corner in an S shape. If you look at how the car handles, you can tell the shot has been sped up to make it appear like he is driving faster. (00:04:15)
Continuity mistake: In the very first racing scene, when they all go around the first turn and it shows them all struggling to hold their steering wheels through the turn, it shows an overview of the 4 cars. As you can see the pink Honda S2000, is in front, and to the left of the red Mazda RX-7. In the very next shot, the Honda S2000 is directly behind the RX-7. (00:08:20)
Continuity mistake: Throughout the opening race scene, you'll notice that Suki's car has neon lights around the rear license plate. However, in one shot, just after the second corner, there are no neons. One of the less detailed clone cars perhaps? (00:09:35)
Continuity mistake: Brian wears sneakers with white laces during the race. In the close-ups of his feet on the brakes, they're laced up differently through the eyelets. (00:10:00 - 00:14:50)
Revealing mistake: At the end of the first race, when Brian and the other guy prepare to jump the bridge, it cuts to Brian who shifts gears and puts on the accelerator. Look closely at the "Revs" counter (next to the speedometer), it is showing almost 0 revs on a car that's moving at very high speed. (00:11:30)
Revealing mistake: When the cars are in the air, they are CGI. They have a line around them. (00:11:50)
Continuity mistake: In the first race, the Supra crashes down after jumping the bridge, and a side shot shows that the Supra's rear wheels have changed from the expensive chrome items to the standard Supra wheels. (00:12:00)
Continuity mistake: When the Skyline is jumping over the Supra, In the POV from outside the cars are quite a distance apart. In the shot from inside the Supra they are a lot closer. (00:12:00)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the first race, Brian speeds over the finish line then stops in front of Tej, and when the camera cuts to a wider shot of Tej the crowd is a few feet away from Tej in all directions, but in the following closeup Tej is now surrounded with people. (00:12:35)
Continuity mistake: In the first race scene after the jump, the gold car crashes into the sign head on, yet the whole back of the car is demolished, not the front. (00:12:45)
Revealing mistake: After the first race, when Tej walks over to Brian with a bunch of people, there is a girl in a orange and black top, and as she walks towards Brian, she is looking directly at the place where the camera is supposed to be and backs away, so the camera can pull in for the shot. (00:13:10)
Continuity mistake: When the cops show up, we see Suki drive off. A few seconds later we see her drive off again. (00:14:00)
Continuity mistake: Brian stops racing and Suki arrives next. She places her arm over the windshield but a shot later her arm is gone. (00:14:01)
Continuity mistake: When Brian is escaping from the police at the start, he drives past a building with a big face and an elephant on it. When the Skyline drives past the building, looking out from the driver's side window, the car is driving past the building again. (00:14:25)
Chosen answer: The detective was tortured because Verone needed a window of time without any police presence and the detective refused to allow it. The girl is just some random hottie that works for Verone.
Greg Dwyer