The Replacements (2000) - 26 mistakes

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, we see Keanu clean the boat and then throw a football under water. The scene changes between different shots and we can see Keanu sometimes standing on the ground and sometimes in midwater (most noteable before he swims to the surface).

Continuity: During the last game he slides into the endzone and when he stops the centre of his body is clearly on a border of green field and grey field. But when the shot changes to a different camera he is nowhere close to any green field.

Continuity: When Nigel, the welsh place kicker for the Sentinels, sets up to make his first field goal for 65 yards, he is shown in a close-up with his helmet chin-strap buckled properly. The camera cuts away from him to the ball, then back to him where his chin-strap is dangling loose on his helmet, cuts away again to the ball, and finally back to him a third time where his chin-strap is once again buckled properly.

Continuity: In the last Game after number 81 drops a long pass, they proceed to go out on the field to try the same play again. However when they start the next play the ball has been spotted at the 3 yard line, and when Keanu Reeves makes his second pass to 81, it is clearly at least 20 yards.

Continuity: During one of the film's inspirational moments, Gene Hackman writes in very large letters the word FEAR.  Pay close attention to the E in FEAR specifically the bottom straight line that makes the E. At one point, the bottom line on the E appears normal straight, at another point it has a distinctive curve on the bottom line that makes the E. Obviously, this scene was filmed over two different days and the word FEAR was written in two different ways.

Continuity: Number 12 from San Diego was standing on the side lines when the cheerleaders were doing their sexy dance. The next second #12 is quarterbacking.

Continuity: For the final touchdown, Keanu throws the ball really far for the deaf guy to catch. And when the deaf guy catches it he falls just over the line, yet in the next scene he's way past the line, but still lying on the ground.

Continuity: After halftime of the last game is over, Shane Falco is seen making a remarkable entrance onto the field. In one shot we see him running through the endzone to get to his team's sideline. In the next shot you can see he's already there, then it switches back to him in the endzone.

Visible crew/equipment: During the middle of the movie, when the team is gathered into a room and spoken to, watch the top of the screen, you can see a microphone slowly protruding into the picture and then go back up.

Continuity: During the fight in the bar, the welsh kicker hits one guy in his best parts and grabs the guy by his hair afterwards. The camera switches from in front of the kicker to behind him. Now his hands are nowhere hear his head/hair and there wasn't enough time to let go of the other guy's head.

Continuity: In the beginning during the game, Washington towned the kick off in the endzone. Starting at the 20 yard line, they received two delay of game penalties. This should of put them on the 10 yard line but instead they start on the 6 or 7 yard line.

Continuity: In the final game against Dallas, Falco arrives at halftime. The Sentinels are on offense to start the 2nd half and they proceed to get several unnecessary roughness penalties on them, which puts the offense's back against their own goal line. The problem is, in the following camera shot it shows Coach McGinty (Gene Hackman) on the sideline standing beside Falco (the quarterback), but Falco is supposed to be on the field with the offense. The very next camera shot shows Falco lining up behind the offensive line getting ready to run the next play, after the penalty.

Continuity: Watch the Chinese spare rib in Jamal Jackson's hand while he, his brother Andre, Jumbo, and Nigel are eating after the first practice. He throws it down, then in his next shot, he is eating it again, then it switches to an overhead, where he's not eating, then you see him again with it back in his hand.

Continuity: In the scene after the first game where a fan is complaining on radio about the team and the camera is panning Washington the cars in the scene are going backwards on the freeway and streets.

Other: When Orlando Jones uses the stickup for his hands, in the next play his hands are very clean, and if you have ever used it, you know what I am saying.

Continuity: When Franklin is body slammed after asking the Dallas player for an autograph, he has grass chunks in his helmet. After the play is over, it shows him again (lying in the same position, indicating he hadn't moved a muscle), but the grass is gone.

Continuity: When Nigel is kicking one of his field goals, you can see the Jumbotron in the background. The entire time, (even during the kick) the Jumbotron is on Danny Bateman, who is on the sideline. The Jumbotron should be showing Nigel as he makes his kick.

Continuity: When Reeves pulls into a parking space and he is met by a group of men, they flip his pickup truck on its side. Then his team mates shoot out the windows of one of the men's car. They then flip the pick up truck back over. The mirror on the driver's side is intact, but should have been crushed.

Continuity: When the players are in the locker room when the coach talks about FEAR if you look at the play with the letter C by it under the play, it says Z but when he talks about FEAR it's gone.

Continuity: During the first game, one of the coaches says "They are running us up the middle too much". Yet they have not run a play yet. And the next play is a run, straight up the middle.