Continuity mistake: After O delivers her eulogy for Z, J and K are in the car talking. The amount of cars and the style of the streets they pass-by have no continuity whatsoever between front and side angles. (00:09:40)
Sacha
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the Chinese restaurant, when K and J are eating, J's white napkin keeps moving around between shots, as do some of the saucers and cups on the table. (00:13:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When K slaps the Chinese man with the alien crab his hair gets messy. When the shot changes it's back to brushed. (00:12:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: After the bug in the cake kills the cops, it runs to free Boris. The amount of strawberry cake on the sewer lid changes between shots. (00:03:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: In the lunar prison, when the guard puts his hand inside the cake, his sleeve is by his wrist or rolled up to the elbow, depending on the shot. (00:03:10)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)

Continuity mistake: After K is falling with J from the rooftop, big chunks of concrete start to fall, yet disappear in some shots. When they land, the ground is clean, yet in one of the close-ups of K a chunk magically reappears next to his head. (00:17:50)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)

Continuity mistake: When J shows Jeffrey the alien invasion on TV, the notebook on the counter swaps from open to closed, and then back to open between shots. (00:32:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the electronic store, when J arrives, the headphones on the counter keep changing position between shots. (00:31:35)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Jeffrey places the time-remote control on the counter it lays next to a notebook. In the close-up it's gone. (00:33:05)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J peeks out The Factory window the broken glass around the frame change amount and shape between shots. (01:01:25)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: At the 1960s HQs, K places his hand on a notebook. A shot later it has jumped next to a typewriter. (00:44:40)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)

Continuity mistake: When young K starts questioning J, K's hands swap between crossed, loose, one on top of the other with no continuity whatsoever. (00:43:35)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J drags Warhol backstage, the people they pass-by have no continuity between the front and back shots. Note the tall transvestite with bulky hair they bump into first, who, a shot later, appears several meters ahead. (00:55:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J puts a tray in the fish's mouth, it swaps from perfect to wrinkled between the first two shots in a time-frame. For the rest of the scene, there's no continuity between the shape it has in the wide angles and in the close-ups. (00:16:20)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When K sees the dead Chinese manager pinned to the wall, the manager's facial expression and position of his head changes between shots in a mere half second. (00:15:45)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Jeff is talking to J on the Flatiron, he is looking at J except for a brief shot where strangely he is suddenly facing left without having turned his head. Then a frame later, from another shot, he is back facing J. (00:33:50)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When the cops are frisking J, the small cop on the left's left hand keeps changing position in every shot, with no logic whatsoever. (00:41:00)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When K suspends J, the small cup on the counter keeps changing positions and moving further away between shots. (00:19:40)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J exits the Flatiron building in 1960 a woman walks right behind him, then the shot cuts to his POV of a group of hippies, then back to the previous shot of J and the woman obviously continues her walk. She should've been several meters ahead already. (00:38:30)
3rd Oct 2012
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Continuity mistake: When J and K fall off the roof holding onto a door, they land opposite to each other. A frame later, from a different angle, they're laying next to each other. (00:17:55)
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