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Continuity mistake: At the "written by" screen with Al Pacino and Christopher Walken meeting, the shadows of the building run perfectly parallel to the fence and through the whole length as far as it can be seen. The two exchange 30 seconds of dialogue and an awkward hug, and drive off. The shadows have changed entirely; they start about halfway at the gate, with an oblique angle. (00:04:05)

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Revealing mistake: Oliver Reed heroically pummels a venomous snake made of rubber (therefore invulnerable to his heavy hits). (00:58:30)

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Other mistake: The end credits list the cast, so it says, "in order of their disappearance." But it's not true; Ilona is listed before Martino, who disappeared earlier than she did (52:30 vs 58:20), Blore is listed before Armstrong, who's been dead longer, and Lombard is the very last, while he was the Indian number two.

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Audio problem: When Mr. Owen does a shot of billiards as he starts to explain the evil plan, there are just two balls left in total (the cue ball and an object ball). The shot happens off-camera, but the sound dubbed in implies that one of the balls clashed with a third one. (01:31:30)

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Other mistake: Despite Blore having shorted out of the generator the night before, when the last survivor gets back to the hotel for the finale, all the lights in the lobby are back to normal. The killer is smart, but not an electrician. (01:30:25)

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Plot hole: In this adaptation, set in Persepolis, the killer couldn't possibly predict that the third-to-last Indian would use binoculars to check out of the corpse in the ruins, and he'd have to lurk in the ruins, with very limited to non-existent cover, in the sun, for a chance to push someone much larger than them, who also happens to be on their own.

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Continuity mistake: Four suspects are left. To check the noise, Vera insists with Lombard saying "I wanna go with you." Notice that one of the three candles in the candelabrum is not lit - the flame fizzled out when she walked too briskly from the bed to the door. In the corridor though, all three candles are burning. (01:23:10)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard and Vera are in bed together, in a much chaste way (he's wearing a full turtleneck). He tells her that he found the letter in his friends' belongings. Her hand is on her own cheek, but at the cut (happening while she is mid-sentence) her hand is on his arm as he reached down to cope a feel. (01:22:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Strategist Wang uses the magnet tied to a pole to sedate the caged Tao Tei, the pole ends with a hook that does not appear in the POV shots. (00:59:00)

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Plot hole: The Chinese army displays a great variety of (often anachronistic) weapons and they spent considerable resources arming and reinforcing the Great Wall to challenge the beasts who have been plaguing their land every 60 years for thousands of years. but despite having records of magnets being effective against them, with magnets being well known to them for centuries (early magnetic compasses were available in the IV century BC, and the movie is set in the XI century) they made no use of that at all.

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Continuity mistake: Vera gets in her room with the other three 'Indians' outside. She carries no candles or other mean of illumination. Yet in the scene when she strips, starting right past the door, the room is brightly lit and a candelabrum is on her bedstand. Her candles went out during the incident that made her scream, so it makes no sense that there'd be warm light waiting for her in her room. (01:17:00)

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Continuity mistake: Lombard asks the Doctor how would he know what was going through the Judge's mind, and Armstrong answers "I know because he took me into his confidence." Behind him, Blore is hunched over, with both hands together over the table. Armstrong turns his attention to Vera, and Blore now is sitting in a different pose, with his chin over his hand. (01:15:10)

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Revealing mistake: When everyone enters the Judge's room and looks at him lying lifeless in bed, the room is in the dark. The light increases when the candles have been on the bedstand for a couple seconds already. (01:12:50)

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Plot hole: The way Judge Cannon joins the ranks of the dead in this adaptation makes the most sense of all the others, since he dies in his bed fixing a variety of logic mistakes, but it suffers from a flaw found also in the 2015 BBC adaptation; Vera screams because her candles go out, which is not something the killer could have set up, as opposed to the scary items planted by the killer in the novel and in previous movies. Without it, the killer couldn't have devised the plan the way it is shown.

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Continuity mistake: During the diner scene, once Leilani covers the imaginary bodycam and starts talking about his murderous beard, her hand position keeps changing between shots, together with the phone's position, sometimes close to her body, other times closer to the fries. And the phone is in an entirely different spot in the close-up when it starts vibrating. (00:16:35)

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Continuity mistake: Leilani and Jibran are at the diner. No booze is served there, so they get milkshakes instead. In the establishing overhead shot there are no spoons in the shakes, they appear in the next shot. Which would be fine, but Leilani is playing with the spoon in that shot, and once he says that they should go to the police, her hand is gone. A few seconds later, Leilani's shake just moves entirely out of the way and is replaced by a plate of fries. (00:15:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Martino is wandering the desert, delirious from the heat, his shirt is unbuttoned to half his chest or lower. When he is shown dead in a longshot, his shirt appears buttoned up higher than that. (00:51:05 - 00:52:20)

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Other mistake: Throughout the 'blackout', no lights at all work and everyone has to get by with candles, torches and their own flashlights, but the main hall is perfectly lit, and even when they go rescue Vera who cried because her candles were blown out, the corridor behind Lombard has enough light to allow anyone to see without any problem. (01:11:10)

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Continuity mistake: And then there were four. During their tense conversation in the lobby, the Doctor gets close to Lombard, who has his jacket in hand. He holds the jacket in a different way (sideways vs more frontal) in the two different shots. (01:15:00)

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Continuity mistake: Blore is reluctant to admit his guilt. He stands up but the Judge bangs his cane angrily on the floor and Blore sits down again. The candles in front of the Judge have a different length between shots. (01:07:40)

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