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Continuity mistake: Gray blurts out at the bar Ellen's real name. Jake realises who she is, and there's a reaction shot of Gray realizing he messed up. The olive stick in his martini is in a different position than in the rest of the scene, so is the level of the drink. (01:20:05)

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Continuity mistake: Riding with the mule in the passenger seat, Harold finds himself unable to control his car. Driving the wrong way, he instinctively crosses his arms as a car nearly crashes against him. In the next shot he has just one arm raised and the other already controls the steering wheel. (01:08:05)

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Continuity mistake: Fakrash makes the two chests of money and jewelry disappear and is quite sad at his inability to please his Master. Harold puts his hands on Burl Ives' considerable girth saying "That's not true, Mr. Fakrash." In the next shot, his hands are on Ives' arms. (00:37:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the part of the crazy car ride when the other vehicles start going in reverse instead of colliding head-on with Harold, he has his arm across the face in the front view, but in the reverse shot just the hand is raised. (01:08:40)

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Continuity mistake: Everyone sits down on the pillows for dinner. Harold's future father in-law grumbles about his sacroiliac pain, and his wife brushes him off saying "Oh Anthony, your back hasn't bothered you in years." Her purse is in a different position in her lap between shots. (00:44:20)

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Continuity mistake: After the buffet with lamb eyes, an odalisque appears and does a dance number. She approaches the dinner party; Sylvia in the wide shots is nervously touching her necklace, but in the closer views her hands are both on the pillow. (00:47:25)

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Continuity mistake: During the 'simple dinner', the second time that the slaves get on their knees praising Fakrash's name, the seneschal claps his hands to shut them up starting from a position with his hands joined, but the hands were parted in the previous shot. (00:43:30)

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Continuity mistake: Harold pitches to the mule a certainly very reasonable idea such as having plastic surgery. In the earlier part of the scene Tony Randall was leaning against the car window, but not in that shot. However, at the cut, there he is, again leaning to the window. (01:12:45)

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Factual error: Fakrash is a genie who served under King Solomon and he himself says that he's been imprisoned for 3'000 years. Yet the whole aesthetics of his clothes, decoration, architecture is the stereotypical Arabian Nights one, which would be several centuries posterior to his times and almost as foreign to him as the present day one.

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Visible crew/equipment: An angry aspiring home buyer tosses a tomato inside the office of Fakrash and Ventimore, but the rancid veggie boomerangs on him when the genie summoning his powers reverses the flow of time causing the tomato to fly where it came from. Well, that's the idea, while in fact you can see a literal stagehand actually throwing the tomato in the actor's face. (01:17:55)

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Continuity mistake: At the hearing, Fakrash starts flying around the room (with a terrible special effect). The men at the prosecution table lean forward to look at what is happening; their arm position changes between shots. (01:23:15)

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Other mistake: Mrs Kenton and Sylvia can't get into the study where Mr. Kenton is; there is no reason why the door would be locked. A mule can't lock it with a key and there is no debris or furniture to block the door. Harold opens it just fine from the inside without operating any particular kind of lock.

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Continuity mistake: The protagonist gets home with the titular object. Seymour is finishing the sculpture; he casts no particular shadow on the wall behind him, but as soon as the shot changes, his silhouette is projected right on the wall. (00:06:40)

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Continuity mistake: Female servants approach the 'table' where the protagonist is having dinner with in-laws and fiancee and sprinkle them with myrrh and frankincense. Continuity mistakes happen at every cut regarding the position of Harold's hands in his lap. (00:45:20)

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Continuity mistake: Harold is holding in his arms the bottle still wrapped as he tells his roomies about the wedding being postponed. In the different shots, the bottle is turned differently - just look at the position of the ribbon. (00:07:35)

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Continuity mistake: During the scene in front of the restaurant (after the VW van takes Harold's parking spot) every cut brings continuity errors in the position of the passersby. The natural light also changes as you can see by the shadow on the sidewalk. (00:27:10)

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Continuity mistake: After Fakrash proposes the partnership in real estates, Harold walks back to the car. Time has passed, because all of a sudden, Fakrash's head does not cast a shadow on his chest like in previous shots. (01:12:25)

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Plot hole: With over two years spent teaching at school, nobody (students, coworkers) ever noticed the rubber face and rubber hands of 'professor Soneji' - and he teaches computer science, having to get close to people constantly looking at their screens and interacting with them - as shown in the classroom scene. Nothing is also said about the name being an alias and how he managed to teach to the super-elite school where daughters of senators and the Russian President (what is he doing attending middle school in the US anyway?) with no credential, or fake ones (the degree shown is in Mercusio's name). You'd think the vetting for the staff there would be iron-proof. He has also been wearing a fake gut, and something like that would have easily showed up if he ever got as much as a pat-down, which at a place with security so tight, is certainly a possibility.

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Plot hole: Jezzie has files about Dimitri in her computer and is the one who asks Cross to do the stake-out at the embassy. She knows of Soneji's plan to kidnap the Russian kid, but wants it to fail, since she is more than content with the millions of ransom for Megan. This part does not make sense on any level; she can't know on which day Soneji is attempting the kidnapping, and since she and her accomplice know where he is hiding (or else they wouldn't be able to grab Megan from him when he is away), by all means they should have killed him rather than run the huge risk to let him try to kidnap another kid at the well guarded embassy and have him killed or worse, captured, before they can do their scheme replacing him. For their plan to succeed, Soneji needs to be dead, so he won't mess up for his delusions of grandeur.

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Plot hole: Devine is in the hideout. It is late evening/night. Nothing in the timeline here makes sense. For starters, the newscast says that "over a week ago" the manhunt for Soneji started. Cross gets on the case the first day, on day 2 they find Mercusio's home, day 3 the failed embassy run and Megan is taken away from Soneji (but nobody knows), day 4 is the jewelry heist, leaving Soneji to be killed the same day or after (the movie messes up on that account but seems to want it to happen the same day, I'd give it another day, making it 5). Moreover, it says that Soneji was killed late in the afternoon the day before; it means that Jezzie waited more than a whole day to go to him, and Devine's comment about the kid being so doped up she didn't realise she is not on the boat makes no sense when it implies she'd have to sleep for 2 days straight instead of one. (01:23:00)

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