Continuity mistake: When Barney meets his friend and they go for a hug, they connect. Camera cuts and then they connect again. (00:00:20)
Continuity mistake: Christmas fires the flare from the left side of the plane. In the following shot, the flare appears to be coming from the right hand side of the plane. (00:00:25)
Continuity mistake: When the pirate is following the laser sights on his hands, the dots are changing positions massively between shots. (00:04:50)
Continuity mistake: Barney's tattoo swaps from being a drawn tiger to a drawn woman. (00:14:35 - 00:42:05)
Continuity mistake: When Tool is finishing Barney's tattoo, he has to do the "able" of Expendable. We see him do part of the A, Christmas arrives and it's suddenly finished as shown by Barney looking in the mirror. (00:15:20)
Continuity mistake: When Tool and Christmas having the knife throwing contest, Christmas's knife lands off the board. When he collects it, it is now just on the edge of the board. (00:17:00)
Continuity mistake: When Christmas is walking across the street just before he see's the army, he is holding on to his camera. Angle change and his hand is no longer on the camera. (00:20:00)
Continuity mistake: When we see Barney pull into Tool's garage, his truck is 3/4 into the garage. When the shot changes, it's only just entering the garage. Note the shadow on the bonnet of the truck. (00:22:30)
Continuity mistake: When Christmas hands his passport over on the island for the first time, the way the customs officer grabs it differs between the CCTV footage and the actual camera angle. (00:27:00)
Continuity mistake: After the plane is docked Stallone and Statham enter the customs agency. Statham is wearing a camera on his neck with a small lens, he even shows it to the customs agent. After leaving the customs they walk across a square. The camera now has a big zoom lens attached to it. Statham is not wearing a lens bag. Where did he get that lens from? Also strange is that the lens is set in manual focus instead of automatic. Yet the picture stays focused even zooming in. This is not possible without looking at the screen. Plus the camera is turned off in the close up shot, with the image on the LCD composited in. (00:28:15 - 00:30:45)
Continuity mistake: When the contact pulls over and lets Christmas out of the truck, the truck is parked next to some green vegetation. When the truck pulls away it's in a completely different spot. (00:34:40)
Continuity mistake: When Christmas asks Sandra if they are close, he is sat facing her in the tuck. Camera changes and he is now facing the front. (00:34:50)
Continuity mistake: When Christmas and Barney get into the fight when the militia are trying to take Sandra, Christmas uses a throwing knife to kill several men, however in most of the shots, but not all, there is no blood on the knife whatsoever. (00:37:00)
Continuity mistake: When Christmas says "If we get out of here it'll be a miracle", he is sat properly. Camera cuts and he is leaning forward with his arm behind his back. (00:38:15)
Continuity mistake: When Barney is driving Sandra's truck there is a shot of it sliding through an open area. Camera cuts to Sandra saying "How can you leave?" If you look out the window they are now driving down a residential street. (00:38:40)
Continuity mistake: When we see Barney and the army both racing through the streets, there is a little boy who throws something at the army. In one shot he starts the throw with his left arm but finished it with his right arm. (00:39:20)
Continuity mistake: Barney climbs into the plane as it taking off, however he runs up to the cockpit as soon as he is in. Camera cuts to show the outside of the plane, and the door is now closed. (00:42:00)
Continuity mistake: Paine punches Sandra and bruising appears immediately. However, when we see Sandra shortly after, she has no bruising at all. (00:56:20 - 00:57:05)
Continuity mistake: Just as Barney realises it's Gunner who's attacking them, he knocks part of his chrome bumper off the truck and it's dragging along the floor. A few seconds later the bumper is reattached and fine. (00:59:40)
Continuity mistake: During the car chase, Yang shoots out part of the rear window of an orange 4x4. This hole then keeps changing place between the following shots. (01:00:00)
Answer: The intel they gathered on Church made them believe he would have killed them all upon completion of their mission.
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