Continuity mistake: When Sator confronts Kat in her bedroom, he begins to unbuckle his belt. He is first shown with both hands beginning to unbuckle the belt near the front of his trousers, but when the shot cuts, his right hand is suddenly shown pulling the belt out of the belt loops on the right hand side of the trousers. (01:03:25)
Casual Person
5th Jan 2021
Tenet (2020)
5th Jan 2021
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist and Neil walk into the two rooms with the turnstile in the Oslo Freeport, just after the Protagonist tells Neil not to touch the bullet holes in the window, Neil asks "What the hell happened here." At this point, his head is turned about 90° to the right. In the next shot, his head is turned more forwards and much less to the right. (00:44:50)
5th Jan 2021
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the bodyguards have the Protagonist cornered in the kitchen, they place his hand on a chopping board. In one shot, just as one of the bodyguards raises a utensil he is holding to hit his hand with, the Protagonist is shown raising his fingers slightly, right before the shot cuts. It then cuts to a different angle where his hand is now flat on the chopping board. (00:32:40)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: Just after the Protagonist has shot Priya, Kat is shown closing her phone after using it. Behind her, a man and woman are shown walking past on the sidewalk, and then after that, two women are shown walking past. In the next shot, these people suddenly disappear from the sidewalk completely. (02:23:56)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Other mistake: Just after Kat kills Sator, the Protagonist looks up at the timer on the bomb, sees there is ten seconds left on it, and continues counting down. Neil then drops a rope inside the cave. After he does this, it cuts to Neil above ground in the vehicle, waiting for the Protagonist and Ives to tie themselves to the rope, watching the helicopters flying away. He then looks at the timer on his watch, which is perfectly synced up with the timer on the bomb, and seven seconds is shown on it. The moment where Neil is shown in the vehicle and watched the helicopters flying away lasted much longer than three seconds. No way could only three seconds have passed on the timer. (02:16:50)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When Priya is preparing to have Kat assassinated, the Protagonist gets inside her car and shoots the gunman. Priya then turns the mirror around to see the Protagonist's reflection. In the shot after this, she is shown lowering her hand away from the mirror. It then cuts back to the mirror and her hand is suddenly back on it again. (02:23:03)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: In Stalsk-12, Wheeler and a blue team soldier take cover inside a house in which chunks of rubble have been blown out of the wall. When the pieces of rubble begin to reassemble back into the wall, Wheeler runs out and the soldier attempts to run out but gets sealed back in. Right after Wheeler runs out of the hole, and the soldier begins screaming, he is shown standing upright. But in the next shot, right before the rubble chunks go back into the wall, the soldier can be seen now kneeling over the hole in the wall. (02:05:45)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist and Kat are speaking shortly before the journey to Stalsk-12, in the shot where Kat leans in to kiss him on the cheek, the oxygen mask that the Protagonist is shown wearing is positioned hanging directly in front of his mouth. The shot cuts to focus on Kat, but when it cuts back to the Protagonist, the oxygen mask is suddenly hanging in front of his left cheek. (01:55:34)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Audio problem: When Kat is speaking with the Protagonist shortly before he inverts himself, there is a shot focusing on the Protagonist where Kat is shown in the corner of shot saying "I didn't get to say goodbye", but her lips don't move. (01:54:30)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist approaches Priya after inverting back in Oslo, right as he says hello to her, on Priya's left, a woman and man can be seen. The woman is wearing an orange cardigan, blue jeans and a handbag over her arm. The man next to her is holding a plastic water bottle. The camera then cuts to an angle in front of the Protagonist and Priya, where the man and woman are suddenly further behind them. (01:46:43)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: On the shipping container, Neil injects Kat with some medicine in a syringe. Whilst Neil says "The faster you sleep, the more you heal", he is shown with his left hand holding Kat's arm and has his fingers positioned under her arm. It then cuts to a closer shot of Kat, where Neil's left hand is now positioned on top of her arm. (01:37:58)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Audio problem: Just before the Protagonist is about to go outside fully inverted, Wheeler is shown pushing a button on the wall which opens a large door. She then says to him "Friction and wind resistance are reversed", but her lips do not match up with what she is heard saying. (01:30:13)
29th Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Wheeler is explaining the rules of inversion to the Protagonist shortly before he goes outside, as she is saying "Gravity will feel normal but appear reversed for the world around you", she is shown holding a small tank of oxygen in her left hand and begins attaching it to a tube shown in her right hand. The camera then changes angles and the oxygen tank is now in her right hand and the tube is suddenly attached to the tank. (01:30:02)
29th Dec 2020
Friday Night Dinner (2011)
Stupidity: The whole episode revolves around Adam bringing his girlfriend Emma to his parents' house to meet the family, but problems start to arise when Emma's sister begins texting Adam pictures of her in her underwear. Adam is extremely bothered by this and attempts to make sure Emma doesn't find out. When everyone is at the dinner table, Adam decides to leave his phone out on the table even whilst he continues to receive texts from Emma's sister and the family begin to comment on it. If Adam was so concerned about Emma finding out about the texts, he could have easily turned off his phone and put it back in his pocket, but instead decides to leave it out on the table and switched on, only drawing more suspicion from Emma. Even when the little girl arrives later and asks to play with his phone, Jonny reaches out to grab it, but all Adam does is take the phone off the table so Jonny can't reach it, and then immediately puts it back on the table again.
Suggested correction: Adam knows Jonny is joking with him, as he usually does. As for Katie taking his phone he didn't expect her to. They have all seen Adam's reaction when getting the messages and he is trying to cover something up. Doing anything to prevent anyone seeing his phone more would arouse suspicion. Personally I don't understand why he didn't just explain that Emma's sister has been sending him pictures and ask Emma to talk to his sister. He didn't do anything and loses someone he liked for no reason.
I was mostly referring to the scene where they are sitting at the dinner table BEFORE Katie arrives. Despite the fact that he kept receiving texts from Emma's sister and was growing more concerned and everyone begins to comment on it, all he does is put it back on the table, switched on, ready for another text to come through, which makes everyone further suspicious. There is no reason at all why he couldn't just turn off the phone, put it back in his pocket, and lowered suspicion.
A better idea would be for him to have told Emma after it happened the first time. I'm sure that saying "your sister just sent this to me for some reason. I'm quite uncomfortable. Could you please ask her why she's sent me this?" would have sufficed. He creates bigger issues by denying anything is happening.
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist and Neil are driving away from the inverted vehicle, there is a shot where the Protagonist is shown looking forwards out of the front windshield, but when the camera changes angles, he is suddenly looking to the right to face the inverted vehicle. (01:19:23)
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist is being dragged into the Freeport by two of Sator's bodyguards, an inverted Sator is in the background, dragging Kat by her arm on the opposite side of the gate. A closer shot of Sator dragging Kat is then shown, where he now has his arm across her abdomen. (01:22:10)
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: Just after the Protagonist has obtained the case containing the Plutonium-241 and is back in the car with Neil, he opens the case and his right hand is shown placed on top of it. It then cuts to a different angle and his right hand is suddenly touching the Plutonium-241. (01:18:09)
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: When the Protagonist walks into Sator's office, a doctor is shown checking his blood pressure and is then ordered to leave. In one shot, the doctor is shown walking past the Protagonist, but in the next shot, the doctor is shown walking past the Protagonist a second time. (01:00:40)
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Continuity mistake: Whilst the Protagonist, Sator and Kat are riding in Sator's yacht, Sator asks the Protagonist "What do you know about opera", and the Protagonist is shown facing forwards. The Protagonist then answers Sator's question and he suddenly has his head turned 180° to face Sator. (00:57:23)
23rd Dec 2020
Tenet (2020)
Audio problem: When the Protagonist and Priya are talking whilst walking down a street in Mumbai, just before the scene ends, Priya says "Sator's helping. You have to find out how", but her mouth doesn't move along with the line. (00:50:55)
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