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Stupidity: The protagonist with her kid stops a car with two guys, in the middle of the night in an isolated country road. Both the adult and the kid scream that a dangerous maniac is chasing them. So naturally, the two guys (who do believe them, it's not that they are being dismissive) offer them some hot coffee, and they drink it right there in the middle of the street, not dialling for help, getting in the car to drive away or anything, because that's what normal people do when you tell them a serial killer is nearby; stop for a hot cuppa.

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Continuity mistake: The morning after the confrontation with the killer, there's a big red bag next to Diana's chair in the long shots, which vanishes in the closer angle, only to reappear in a later shot. (01:18:15)

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Revealing mistake: Running away from the killer, Diana and Chin randomly get attacked by snakes, because why not. You can see in close-ups of Ilenia Pastorelli's face when she screams that there is no trace of the snake wrapped around the neck of the body double in other angles. (01:01:20)

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Stupidity: Diana and Rita call each other on the phone when the killer is approaching, but neither calls the police. Rita might have been pressed for time because the killer's van was chasing her car (even if she'd had time, looking at the scene), but Diana definitely could have spared a few seconds after Rita hanged up, the killer was literally miles away.

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Revealing mistake: Diana is blind and not accustomed yet to her condition; multiple times throughout the movie if she bumps into something she staggers or drops what she is holding - for instance she drops the shopping bags when she bumps into the post meeting Chin. And yet when she is escaping from the police at Chin's house, she bumps into a drying rack and does not even flinch - in fact if you look closely you can see that the actress moved her hand on purpose to hit it cleanly at the proper angle that would make it fold. (00:44:55)

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Continuity mistake: Ispettrice Bajani is knocked down by the killer comically opening the car door in her face. She falls back, but in close-up she is face down on the asphalt and the gun is on the opposite side from the one you'd expect given the right-handed grip and the way the door opened. When they show the crime scene, her body is also suddenly close to her coworker's; technically we saw just her death and not what the killer could have done before leaving (we know he got her phone), but realistically there's no plausible explanation why he'd drag her several feet away and the eyewitness says nothing about the killer doing post-murder Feng Shui antics. (00:44:00)

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Continuity mistake: Ispettrice Bajani is on the phone when she shouts her colleague's name in close-up, but in the wider angles before and after her arms are held low. (00:43:00)

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Continuity mistake: Diana is holding the calling card from Ispettrice Bajani in her left hand and her cane in the right hand when she gets the denim jacket. The close-up shows her right hand, with no cane, tucking the card in the jacket pocket. (00:39:30)

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Audio problem: In the original version, it's crystal clear that the last sentence from inspector Gemma Bajani after she hands her calling card (when she says that they'll be back with a search warrant) was added in post, lacking ambience and even mixed at a different level than the rest of the dialogue. (00:39:10)

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Stupidity: The doctor speaks to Diana in the hospital room. The scene is played like Diana just woke up and just discovered about her status, which they discuss with the medical explanation for it. She reaches out with her arms feeling up blindly (literally, of course). The first thing she does as the doctor leaves, is to put the titular black sunglasses on. She shouldn't even know they are there - and why should they be, after all. (00:18:15)

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Continuity mistake: In the close-up of Diana kicking her client in the nads, the background shows the footboard of the bed behind them, but they are at the side of the bed, close to the bedstand, a moment before and after. (00:14:30)

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Stupidity: A significant plot point at the beginning of the movie is based on the fact that the killer changed the color of the van from black to white and was untraceable. In the rest of the movie, everyone knows that the van is white, he is constantly identified solely because of that, almost to the point of being comical (there are plenty of white vans around, just like there were plenty of black ones.), and yet he never ever changes color again even with days to spare. This sudden change of M.O. is never explained nor brought up.

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Other mistake: In the last scene at the airport, extras get reused - for instance, when she says "I promise..." a guy with a loud teal T-shirt, dragging a little trolley, walks by her. The commissioner offers to give her a ride, and the same guy is walking in the opposite direction. (01:20:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the commissioner - who somehow delivers adoption papers too - hands the documents to Chin's cousin, she holds them in her left hand, which is entirely free in the next shot. (01:20:15)

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Revealing mistake: Diana's dog breaks free from her captivity with the slightest push against an unlocked pen. (01:15:35)

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Continuity mistake: Diana and Chin are chained up in the back of the van. She begs him to leave the child alone; the position of her hands changes entirely between shots. (01:13:20)

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Revealing mistake: Diana needs to make herself a new DIY cane. She tried to break a few branches, and one eventually makes a snapping sound - you can see though that it just slips into her hand coming from out of the frame. (01:08:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the double murder scene, the commissioner asks the eyewitness about the van. In the background, a policeman opens the trunk of the car, fully. He is back in the process of opening it in the next shot. (00:44:15)

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Audio problem: When Baldacci shoots the van that is coming at him full force, the sound bits inserted are of bullets hitting metal. Since he is aiming at the windshield, either his gun does not shoot straight or someone has been very lazy with the sound editing; even if he hit bulletproof glass, the sound it would make would not be like that at all. And a few seconds later his colleague shoots at the van from the side and there is no bullet impact sound at all; to Miss a static target of THAT size from a few feet of distance she'd have to blind as well. (00:43:05)

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Revealing mistake: Ispettore Baldacci gets hit by the evil van, and you can see as he flies back from the impact that his face is clean, but in close-up of course all of a sudden his face is a crimson mask. (00:43:05)

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