Visible crew/equipment: When J is going to use the neuralyzer on K, on J's lenses you can notice that K has been replaced with a white screen used for lighting.
Sacha
28th Apr 2020
Men in Black (1997)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When K shows the neutralizer at the border patrol guys, he holds it parallel to his face, but in the close-up it's next to where his shoulder meets the arm. (00:07:50)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When J holds the baby squid, his fingers protrude more or less depending on the angle. (00:44:40)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Arquillian's stretcher is about to pass through the doors, the cat is raised and nervous, when the angle changes he is resting relaxed. (00:50:00)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Revealing mistake: When the jeweler's ear pops-open, the angle changes and it gets replaced for a prop that looks nothing like the real ear. (00:54:35)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When J is searching for the cab, K arrives to pick him up and says "He won't be leaving in a cab". Right then a bus suddenly appears on the right lane, only to disappear in the next angle. (01:14:40)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: At the morgue, K walks towards the Arquillian's head while Weaver and J walk to see the Jeweler. When the angle changes, a frame later, K is meters away, close to the racks. (00:52:00)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the UFO crashes against the ground, K's hair moves wildly in the front shot, but remains still in the angle shot from behind. (01:21:00)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the Mexican alien is running away, the whole scene is all wrong: He runs for a long time and passes by many bushes and cacti, but when K takes out his gun, the alien is just 10 meters away. Plus, from the POV angle, he passes by the cactus to the left of the guard twice. (00:06:50)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Revealing mistake: When Arquillian is laying flat dead in the morgue, his pulse on his throat is very visible. (00:50:35)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When J exits the jewelry, he falls on a some trash with a pizza box next to his armpit. A frame later, the box is laying by his hip. (01:03:45)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: When J puts the glasses on for the first time, a lighting screen is reflected on the right lens. (00:38:30)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the jewelry store, when J chases the farmer, the boots behind him swap from standing to fallen between frames. (01:03:35)
7th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: After Dr Weaver unveils Arquillian's body, the way the blanket is folded changes between shots. (00:51:55)
6th Mar 2012
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Arquillian's body is brought to the morgue, the strap around his legs disappears in the first shot. (00:50:00)
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: After doing his recruitment test, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are sitting down on a bench and talking. The distance between them decreases between the first and second shot. (00:31:20)
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When J is trapped by a tentacle of the alien woman in the car, the first seconds of him being dragged up and down he casts no shadow on the ground. Later on when the tentacle is extended he does cast a small shadow. (00:44:10)
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the farmer kills the two men at the diner he exits the place and encounters a passer-by. When the angle changes the man has vanished. (00:43:05)
1st Apr 2010
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the two men with the cat are eating at the diner, the table behind the old man is either empty or has an old woman sitting by it, depending on the angle. (00:41:30)
29th Jun 2007
Men in Black (1997)
Continuity mistake: After Will Smith holds the squid, the amount of slime on his jacket differs between the right and left shots.
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