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Continuity mistake: During the stop-over at Limassol a maintenance guy places a fully-zipped clothes bag full of, as we will see later see, weapons in a cabin wardrobe. Before the plane takes off a stewardess happens to see the bag, which is now zipped down half with a gun sticking out. The wardrobe is a different one too, since a large sign with seat directions, which was placed next to the wardrobe, isn't there anymore. (00:07:35)

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Plot hole: Jack is observing Maldic, one of the hijackers, while he is checking in at a London hotel. Maldic receives a message, and after he has read it he throws it into a garbage bin. However, at this particular moment Jack is looking discreetly into the opposite direction and should have no reason to look for the message in the garbage bin later. (00:48:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the shoot-out in the train a lady gets hit right into her left breast. In the next shot the bullet hole has shifted to the collarbone. (01:22:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the shoot-out in the train Bernard hits the bad guy with the gas mask so that he is thrown back. In the next shot he hits the guy, who is upright again, a second time, now into his eye, and he is thrown back again. (01:22:05)

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Continuity mistake: After Billy gets shot and Wyatt rides towards the pick-up it's sunny with trees casting shadows on the road when the camera shows the pick-up, but not when it shows Wyatt. (01:29:35)

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Continuity mistake: In the LSD scene in the graveyard there are a few shots of Wyatt where the eye injury he received in the red-neck beating isn't there (like when he holds on to the statue and says 'I hate you so much'). (01:21:45)

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Visible crew/equipment: After they leave the commune Billy and Wyatt come to a small town. A band is marching, and in the tuba you see a nice refelection of the camera man. (00:41:20)

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Continuity mistake: Billy and Wyatt and the two commune women are having a swim in a water basin. Wyatt is sitting on the rim, splashing his feet in the water, and 'his' girl starts swimming towards him. Then it cuts to a frontal close-up of her smiling at him, but you can still see his feet splashing in the background. (00:39:30)

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Revealing mistake: When Wyatt, Billy, and the stranger they had just picked up are sitting at the campfire their shadows on the rock are not in any proper projection from the fire, plus, they are totally still. (00:22:10)

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Continuity mistake: In the concentration camp children get taught to cut themselves off from their parents. There is a blackboard with a painting of a house and a family with something written on top in Cambodian. A child comes and crosses out the parents. When the camera angle changes the cross is different, and the writing on top is gone (a part of it should be visible even though a smaller area of the blackboard is shown). (01:29:15)

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Continuity mistake: When Rockoff takes Pran's picture for his fake passport he is using a Rollei with the eyepiece on top. Seen from behind he is looking into it standing behind the camera, seen from the front he is standing on the side. (01:09:15)

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Continuity mistake: When the man who Pran works for as a servant is shot he falls on his back and is dead. In the next shot he is lying face-down. (01:59:20)

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Revealing mistake: When the village where Pran is hiding as a servant is bombed, you see a lot of stuntmen performing elegant jumps as if they were doing gymnastics, some long after the impact of the bomb would have hit them. (01:56:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Pran is working in a mud pit his face is covered with sarcoma-like rashes. When he sits down to have his 'lunch' the rashes are in different places, e.g. a new one right next to his nose. (01:26:25)

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Continuity mistake: When a high-ranking Cambodian politician is taken out of the French embassy by the Red Khmer, the gate is opened and closed with a latch on the side. Then the camera looks through the gate at the leaving car, and now the gate has two wings with a chain and a lock in the middle. (01:02:35)

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Continuity mistake: At the French embassy someone is playing a piano on which you see in close-up a champagne bottle and a glass. In the next, wide shot bottle and glass are gone, and then another man comes along carrying exactly those two items, and places them on the piano. (01:00:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Sydney is typing a report there are a lamp, a statue, and a whiskey bottle on his desk. In the next shot the number of bottles goes up to two. Then again you see only one bottle, the lamp has changed from straight to bulbous, and all items are totally rearranged. (00:32:10)

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Revealing mistake: Shortly after Sydney arrives at Pnom Penh he sits at a street cafe with Al Rockoff, the photographer. When a bomb explodes on the other side of the street they seem to be engulfed by flames, but when the camera cuts to the place where the bomb went off it's burning like a small log fire, and all people in between don't seem to be harmed by the fire ball in any way. (00:05:55)

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Continuity mistake: When the protagonists are trying to get to the French embassy they pass a VW beetle whose windshield is smashed by a Red Khmer. The camera angle is not very helpful but if you look closely you see that the window is gone already, and the pieces flying over the hood are from the bit of glass that sticks in the frame. (00:56:50)

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Continuity mistake: For the scene where Sydney and Pran talk about leaving Pnom Penh the editor mixed two takes: one with Sydney's hair nicely parted and Pran's face dripping with sweat, and the other one with Sydney's hair a wild mess and Pran's face absolutely dry. (00:33:35)

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