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The film opens with Arnie in a helicopter, refusing to fire on "innocent women and children". At the film's climax, when the (undoctored) film of this event is screened, it is changed to "innocent human beings". It may have been the other way around, but it is still a horrendous lack of continuity. See more...

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In the scene before Richards is sent down the tube, he says "Killian". When Killian comes in to hear, he lowers the microphone. Then when they cut to Richards to say "I'll be back", the shot back to Killian has him having the microphone up near his mouth again. [There is enough time between the shots for him to move it.]
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After Ben Richards kills Buzz Saw, he hears Amber scream. The scream he hears is the exact same scream played when Richards and Laughlin first enter the Buzz Saw kill arena. [It's not implausible that people can scream the same exact way many times. ]
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In the scene where Sub-Zero is introduced, he takes his "hockey stick" blade and promptly cuts the gong in half. You can clearly see where the gong was pre-cut and held together with what looks like gold coloured tape. [He is staging a trademark stunt for a television show. The gong is a prop, precut in order to make his character seem more ferocious.]
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When Arnie goes back to his brothers apartment and finds it's been taken over by a woman who lives by herself, how come he still finds a change of clothes that fits him? [Amber tells him she has a box of items that the previous owner, who she just learned was Arnold's brother, left behind. Why she kept the box, we do not know, but probably because she is a nice person and kept the box in case the previous owner or a friend came back to claim the items. That explains why Arnold has a change of clothes that fits.]
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Why does the cage that Arnold straps Killian into at the end suddenly take flight as it leaves the tunnel and explode? There is no ramp and the others don't do this. Did Arnold slip a bomb into Killian's pocket? [The knob that Arnold turns as Killian is launched probably controlled the speed at which the cage would go through the tunnel. It is clear that the cage is moving much faster than it did when Arnold was in it.]
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How can Arnold tell it's a food riot, when he only has white dots on his helicopter screen? And why does he report "approximately 1500 civilians" - did he count to 1500, while relaying other information? And how come he reports 1500, when there aren't 1500 dots. And how come he knows the crowd are unarmed? Perhaps he should have flown down for a closer look instead of beating up his flight crew. [Most information systems are designed with the intent of quickly summarizing information for human consumption. Perhaps the fact that they are dots instead of squares or triangles indicates that the people are unarmed. Each individual dot may represent a group of 50-100 people. Perhaps the fact that they are white dots indicates that this is a food riot (which might be relatively peaceful), whereas red would indicate a full-scale revolt. Without powerful summarization capabilities, what good would this targeting/tracking/etc. system be?]
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When the video of Arnold's helicopter incident is shown to the Running Man audience, the last shot in the video is of Arnold being struck with the butt of a rifle, from Arnold's perspective. If the video was supposed to be shot with some interior surveillance cameras in the chopper, how is it that the last shot is from a person's (Arnold's) point of view, and obviously not a camera's? [It is shown (in the faked fight to the death scene) that the TV engineers can fake any footage they want, from any angle at all. They obviously faked this shot to show the 'criminal' Arnold getting what was coming to him.]
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In the shot where Ben and Buzzsaw are fighting, the saw chain can be seen to stop several times, even though the engine does not slow down. [All chainsaws have a clutch.]
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