Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Continuity mistake: After being chased by soldiers after talking to his uncle, Dastan gets into a swordfight with Garsiv. As soon as it starts, Garsiv hits a pillar with his weapon knocking a significantly large chunk and a another smaller chunk out of it. In the immediate shot, the size and locations of the two chunks differ.

THGhost

Continuity mistake: When Ben Kingsley places the dagger in the sand crystal time goes backward. Tamina calls out Dastan's name and then he calls out her name in the same order as it happened in forward time. This should have been backward.

Continuity mistake: While storming the eastern gate of Alamut, Dastan climbs up onto a high beam with some rope. He then ties the rope around the beam and in one shot, the part of the rope that Dastan is holding onto is on the left hand side of the beam. The shot then changes to the right side of the beam and the rope has suddenly switched sides.

LizzieWD

Continuity mistake: After Dastan speaks to his uncle, there are soldiers firing at him with crossbows from above - one of the arrows becomes embedded horizontally instead of at a downward angle.

garok89

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Dastan kills himself in front of his brother he does so by stabbing himself in the heart with his right hand wile holding his brother with his left. When we moments later get to witness this scene in reverse we can see Dastan using both hands to stab himself.

Continuity mistake: When Prince Dastan began to flee from the Persian soldiers after his talk with his uncle, one of the soldiers cut Dastan's left arm, with a noticeable bloody cut. But after Dastan escaped the soldiers and leans against a wall, the cut and the blood was gone, with his left arm undamaged.

Continuity mistake: When Dasdan meets with his uncle and is showing him "the dagger", Ben Kingsley's hands are unblemished, they only appear burned when Dasdan notices them.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Dastan and Tamina are again captured by Sheik Amar, Seso, and their group because of the chaos they caused back at the valley. In the oasis, watch Dastan's left arm carefully: the leather belts are changing shot by shot. In one shot there are many black strips across, and in another shot we see it's a single black strip running around his arm.

Harlequin

Continuity mistake: When Tamina is berating Dastan on acting like a typical Persian prince, her hair is to the side and in front. After Dastan explains how he came to be a prince, her hair is swept to the back. (00:33:45)

Continuity mistake: When Tus's throat is slit, we see two shots of his dead body. In the first shot, his neck is covered in blood, but in the second shot there's only blood on the wound, but the wound is longer.

MikeH

Continuity mistake: When a soldier almost jumps on Dastan as he's on the ground, Garsiv stabs him midair. Blood then drips onto Dastan's cheek, but in the next shot, there's blood on his forehead as well.

MikeH

Continuity mistake: When Seso throws a sword into a warrior's head, the sword originally had the handle cut off, but when we see it sticking out of the warrior's head, it has a handle.

MikeH

Continuity mistake: While Dastan is securing the second gate in the battle for Alamut, a ring appears on his finger. While he is levering the gate, there are no rings on his finger. A moment later, when he waves at Bis to signal the gate is secure, he wears a silver ring on his left hand. The ring is visible again when Bis waves his torch at him, but is gone the next time we see him. (00:12:10)

Continuity mistake: When Ben Kingsley places the dagger in the sand crystal time goes backward. Tamina calls out Dastan's name and then he calls out her name in the same order as it happened in forward time. This should have been backward.

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Question: Spoiler alert. When Dastan and Nizam are fighting over the knife stuck in the container holding the Sands of Time, it breaks free and they are both swept up, the scene then changing to Dastan back after he first discovers the dagger after the invasion of Alamut. He is aware of what happened in the previous time line obviously and acts to prevent the events from happening again. But what I am not clear on is how Nizam is acting at that point. Is he still aware of the previous time line? It's hard to tell by how he acts when Dastan confronts him. He was with Dastan when they went back in time to that point, but it was Dastan holding the dagger. So does that mean only Dastan knew what happened, or does Nizam remember it too?

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Chosen answer: Only Dastan remembers. Nizam is acting strangely because Dastan is acting strangely. He suspects that Dastan is onto his secret plot somehow but can't figure out how Dastan could possibly know.

Phixius

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