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Ransom (1996) - 17 mistakes
Directed by Ron Howard, starring Gary Sinise, Liev Schreiber, Mel Gibson, Rene Russo (add more)
Other: During a chase, Gibson makes a left turn at an intersection causing two girls to suddenly lunge backwards to avoid getting hit. The girl with the long black hair turns to her friend and smiles. This was most likely because she just successfully played a part in a big movie, but I don't think she'd be smiling at that moment. Most of the people in that shot don't react normally but are more explainable given the New York setting.
Factual error: When Mel Gibson is leaving NYC by car they come out of the Lincoln Tunnel onto route 4, that is impossible. The only way out of the Lincoln Tunnel is onto route 3. Then when they are driving through New Jersey on route 4, Mel Gibson says "There is the exit for 208." While you can get to 208 from route 4, they were driving on route 4 east, heading back towards NYC, not route 4 west which is the way onto route 208 they showed in the movie.
Continuity: Earlier in the movie, we can see in the elevator that 16 is the highest number floor before the Penthouse (PH). Since they live in a two-story Penthouse, that would mean they are occupying the 17th and 18th (top two) floors of the building. But later in the movie when Mel Gibson hears the shot on the phone and thinks they have just killed his son, he runs out onto his balcony and looks down at the street. He is only about 4 or 5 stories up at this point.
Deliberate "mistake": When the media truck follows Mel, he comes to a traffic light and stops. When he throws away the van's keys, he speeds off from the intersection. Why are the cars at his left not driving? They look like they have parked there and with no drivers present in the car. Weird for a very busy road.
Continuity: Towards the end of the film, Gary Sinise is watching Rene Russo and Mel Gibson playing ball with their son. He is standing on a balcony. If you look in the background there are two people, a woman in a brown coat and a man in a grey coat. There are four different shots of Gary Sinise watching. The first shot has the people way back, the next shot they are walking off the scene, but the third shot has them back behind Gary Sinise again.
Continuity: In the middle of the movie when Mel Gibson is in the interview room in the jail with the guy who he paid off to stop the machinist strike, the guy jumps at Mel and punches him. Mel gets up and he has a bloody mouth. A few seconds later after the guy is led out of the room Mel no longer has blood on his mouth.






