Continuity mistake: Ox takes out the skull, Marion walks behind him, moving to a corner on the right. In the next angle Indy says, "Ox, I think I understand" and Marion is suddenly gone, only to magically reappear a frame later.
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Continuity mistake: When the Akator temple starts to move, the sand by the groups' feet keeps changing from sandy with a couple of rocks, to filled with weeds and leaves, and back to sandy.
Other mistake: Spalko is hanging from a tree to avoid the sting of the ants. When a CGI ant is on her knee she closes both legs and smashes it. If you watch closely you'll notice that when she closed her legs the ant was already over her thigh, so if it had been a real ant it would have been impossible to kill that way.
Continuity mistake: Inside the waterfall temple, the group walks by a room (with a passage on each side and a double entrance with steps in the middle) where natives appear and columns and walls fall off. The angle changes to a seemingly new room, but it's obviously the same place, with the camera angle slightly turned to the right. All the previous people are magically gone, the debris has disappeared, and natives are coming out of different places. Really odd editing. (01:30:35)
Continuity mistake: In the alien room, Spalko walks to Ox to take the skull away from him. In the first angle Marion is standing to the left of Ox, but in the immediate close-up she is behind him.
Continuity mistake: Mutt says, "We have to cross the waterfall," and extends her left hand. From the opposite angle, a frame later, he is extending the right arm.
Continuity mistake: When the Russians arrive at the barrier the sky is either sun setting, bright and sunny, or cloudy, depending on the angle.
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the opening senate scene, the Senator's jug of water keeps turning around and moving closer/away from the nameplate between shots. (00:11:35)
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Deliberate mistake: The whole Monaco race sequence is totally (but deliberately) ludicrous. First no driver would be allowed without a fireproof mask and rest of required security measures, as Stark does. Second, the real-life security controls are very strict: When an accident occurs a safety car shows up, flags and audio advices signal the racing cars for them to lower their speed and avoid accidents. Nothing to do with the wild, uncontrolled race depicted here.
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Stark leaves the box of strawberries on Pepper's table, its position keeps changing between shots.
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Ivan's father dies, his neck in covered in some sort of scarf that hides it completely. When the angle changes, the neck is perfectly visible.
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Stark and Rhodey break through the roof of the house the hanging debris from the hole above keeps changing depending on the angle focusing, with hanging parts that appear or disappear randomly.
18th May 2010
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Continuity mistake: When Hammer takes the parrot away from Ivan, the Russian's black jacket keeps swapping from opened to closed between angles.
Continuity mistake: When Indy finds out that Mac has betrayed him, Mac is standing half a meter away. Right after, from a different angle, he is 10 centimeters away, with the tip of his rifle touching Indy. And right away, from yet another angle, the gun is on top of Indy's shoulder.
Factual error: After Indy finds the skull, the map to show his travel has all the words written in Spanish, with the accents properly placed, except for the words 'Cuzco' and 'Río Amazonas', misspelled in English, 'Cusco' and 'Amazon'.
Continuity mistake: After Mutt falls off the graveyard's ladder and is attacked by a native, the scattered broken parts of the ladder disappear to allow for the fight scene to take place.
Continuity mistake: After Indy has been decontaminated, the lamp behind him swaps from lit to unlit between shots.
Continuity mistake: While Mutt's bike is sliding along the library floor, right before it comes to a stop it's pushing a chair on the right. A frame later the chair has magically made a 180º turn and moved half a meter to the right.
Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt are in the diner, two baddies show up, Mutt pulls out his knife and places it leaning to the left. In the close-up it's facing upwards, despite Mutt not having moved it.
Continuity mistake: In the Nevada warehouse,when Spalko is opening the corpse bag, the amount of smoke coming out swaps from a lot to zero depending on the angle, without any logical sense whatsoever.
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