Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Continuity mistake: After they fall inside the temple, Mac steals gold from the skeleton and turns around. Shot changes, and he is turning his back on us, repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: A car ploughs through huge iron gates, ripping them from the their hinges. Seconds later the car is pristine.

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt are seated in the diner, Mutt stands up fast in an argument between the two, causing the bottles of ketchup and mustered to be knocked over. The shot then alternates from different directions, making the bottles appear as both standing and knocked over. When Mutt finally sits back down Indy sets the bottles back upright.

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Continuity mistake: In PerĂº when Mutt is sweeping the floor Indy holds the map with one hand. A shot later he holds it with both.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: As the Dean enters, several pictures hang on the wall. When they leave the pictures have been changed. (00:24:40 - 00:25:45)

Continuity mistake: After the monkey chase scene, after Spalko's jeep lands on top of Indy's, Indy, Mutt, Mac and Oxley start to raise, but when the angle changes they're crouched again, plus in a completely different position.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Spalko steps on a tree to free herself from the ants, 2 meters away from where a soldier is starting to be eaten. A frame later the soldier is gone, there's not even a small mound where his corpse could be.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Oxley takes the skull out of the bag and places it behind his hand to scare the ants away. When the angle changes there's a brief glance of his right hand and the bag is gone.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the group enters the final temple the skull falls into the water. Mutt picks it up, and there's a shot of Mac grabbing some gold. Then back to a wide angle and Mac is repeating the previous movement with a totally different hairstyle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the wedding scene the bride has open toed shoes when she kisses Indy and begins to exit the pulpit area, but different closed toe shoes as she and Indy depart the church.

Continuity mistake: After Mutt points at the waterfall, Indy grabs the skull and Mutt leans on him to raise up, yet a frame later from a different angle his hands are away from Indy.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the raft is about to fall through the second waterfall, there's a huge rock to the left which disappears in the wide angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy removes Orellana's golden mask, the light changes abruptly from very shiny to obscure and mysterious.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the quicksand scene, when Mutt is throwing a snake at Indy, Indy's left (our right) sleeve swaps from covered in sand to spotless between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt and Indy enter the library, a chubby man in a suit holding a brown briefcase runs away, yet appears calmly walking half a second later from a different angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the ant scene, the branch that Indy uses to knock out the Russian wasn't there in the first place, it magically appears between shots.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: After Mutt's bike knocks down the "Better red than dead" banner it falls sideways; yet when the chasing car arrives, the banner is magically up again, ready to fall horizontally on the car's windshield.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt's bike is about to exit the campus, a green car is passing by, which disappears in the immediate wide angle of the street.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt and Indy ride inside the arched door in the campus, a couple runs away, yet appears still there from the opposite angle.

Sacha

Factual error: In the warehouse scene, the lights and other metal objects are affected by the box's magnetic field. Yet the soldiers easily lift the box into a metal truck to load it and slide it forward. If the box's magnetic field was as strong as suggested, it would have dragged the soldiers forward as it was magnetically attracted to the truck, and it would have taken much more effort for them to slide it onto the truck bed once it was stuck there.

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Trivia: The young Henry nicknamed himself "Mutt, which is also a term for a dog. Indy named himself after a dog he had as a child that was called Indiana (as noted in the third movie). This is the first hint about their relationship.

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Question: Perhaps I've forgotten some details from The Last Crusade in the years since I've seen it, but shouldn't Henry Sr. not be dead in this movie, because he drank from the Holy Grail which gives immortality?

Answer: Yep, you've forgotten some details. The Knight specifically states that the immortality bestowed by the Grail is limited to those who remain within the shrine. Jones Snr left the cave, ergo, no immortality.

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