Bad Boys (1995) - 30 mistakes

Continuity: When the two female characters enter the fancy hotel room, they make a point to say they will only be there for a couple of minutes. It is daylight when they go in. The visit is cut short (the one that's supposed to be a few minutes long) because of a gun battle in which one of the women dies and the other escapes. The escaped one gets out through the roof into an evening's sky. There's still light visible, but for a visit that lasts all of 4 minutes, it's far too quick a change.

Continuity: Just as Mike saves Marcus from being hit by the taxi, there is a blue bumper attached / missing / attached / missing from the taxi.

Continuity: Before Eddie Dominguez is shot sitting in the chair, the bad guy in the green suit is on the left of the large guy, but when the big guy pulls the trigger the man in green is on his right side.

Continuity: When Marcus meets Julie Mott she attacks him with a bat. He takes the bat off her and moves to leave. The next shot of Julie Mott sitting on the floor shows the bat in the foreground. Cut back to Marcus still holding the bat and he asks her, "Look lady, you ain't got no more bats, do you?"

Continuity: When Marcus is talking to his wife in bed about having some early morning sex, she gets up and he is leaning on his side. She tells him the kids will be coming any minute and when they do come bursting through the door, Marcus is now under the covers on his back. Given that we heard them approaching, there's no time for him to move.

Continuity: When Marcus and his wife walk up the stairs in the house, they are having a heated discussion and his wife (off camera) shouts down "and you don't even have your wedding ring on." At this point his wedding ring IS on his finger, then in the next shot the ring is NOT on his finger and Marcus attempts to put it back on.

Continuity: When Will and Martin are in Martin's car, just after they find the dead guy, watch the microphone hanging from the rear view mirror. Depending on the camera shot, it changes position.

Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the car chase scene between the Porsche and the AC Cobra on the runway, a shadow of the camera as well as the boom can be seen just as the Porsche drives between the concrete blocks. This can be seen at normal speed but is best viewed in slow motion.

Continuity: The kegs of ether in the truck have hazardous material labels applied to them. These are diamond shaped labels that indicate the class of material in the container. Throughout the chase scene they alternate between Flammable Liquid labels (solid red) and Flammable Solid labels (half red, half white).

Continuity: In the final car chase - in the close-ups - we see Marcus turning the steering wheel quite far from side to side. With the speed they are going that would make the car slalom severely - and probably go out of control. At that speed only very small movements of the steering wheel are necessary (and safe).

Other: At the very end of the movie Mike has the bad guy down on the ground and he's got his gun in the guys face, we see a shot looking straight up the gun barrel with Smith's eyes over the top of it. If you look at the barrel of the weapon there is a little point of light at the back of the barrel. This is caused by sunlight shining through the firing pin hole in the back of the chamber showing that the gun has no round in the chamber.

Continuity: In the party scene, when Fouche shoots Eddie Dominguez, his collar goes from being buttoned all the way to the neck and then being opened as the scene goes back and forth between shots.

Continuity: In the scene at the beginning of the film, when the villain of the piece shoots Julie's friend, he proceeds to turn the gun on Eddie and shoot him in the leg. After Eddie reels back in pain and falls into the chair, a conversation begins. Throughout the course of this conversation, the drool that flew from Eddie's mouth and landed on his right lapel, disappears and then reappears.

Continuity: After Mike has killed the bad guy at the end, the distance of the bad guy's hand from the gun changes instantly.

Other: In the Ether truck chase, Marcus is driving and turning the wheel excessively, however the truck remains on a straight path.

Revealing: In the mad taxi sequence, there is a shot of the taxi with sparks shooting out. If you look closely you can see the device that made the sparks.

Visible crew/equipment: When Julie rings Mike and ends up speaking to Marcus, Julie's microphone wire can be seen running along her jumper.

Audio problem: When the Captain is on about the Heroin being stolen he says something along the lines of "we got nothing, and he left us a big f*** you". When he says "we got nothing" his mouth doesn't match the words on the audio.

Audio problem: When Mike and Marcus are driving in Marcus's car, just before they sing Bad Boys, in the shot over Mike's shoulder we see that what he is saying does not match the movement of his mouth.

Other: When the bad guys are stealing the drugs and they use the spray to break the lock, they drag the chain off the bars, and if you look closely you can see part of the bar chip off and it's made of wood.

Continuity: When Julie takes the key for the handcuffs from the cupboard at Mike Lowrey's apartment, she puts it down her right side. When she unlocks herself at the end in the car, she takes it from her left side.

Continuity: When Marcus wakes up towards the beginning of the film, he knocks a Florida snowglobe and some other stuff off the top of his alarm clock. In the next shot, the snowglobe is back on top of the clock.

Visible crew/equipment: When the two ladies go to the party relatively near the beginning, one goes off to the toilet. The other one gets shot (through the cushion) she then falls back on a coffee table which completely shatters before she even hits the table.

Continuity: Mike and Marcus go to meet Sanchez and Ruiz on the steps, Sanchez is sat down holding a doughnut (or something) in his right hand and a coffee in his left. A few seconds later, when talking about bongos, there's a close up shot and the items change hands. Back to a wide shot when Mike and Marcus enter they switch back.

Continuity: When they're in the basketball court, Will Smith marches over to Martin Lawrence, saying "you left a strange hooker in my apartment?" He's holding the ice pack in his hand in the wide shot, but in close-up it's not visible.

Continuity: At the party scene in the early minutes of the movie, the bad guy who calls the two women to his place to "party" is shot once in the knee. Blood spurts and a gaping hole is made in his dark blue pant's leg by the bullet. Seconds earlier, the black hooker is shot three times. Where are the three gaping holes and blood on her solid white dress??? Ah, there are none.

Visible crew/equipment: When Marcus is driving and Mike is saying that he is driving slow enough to drive Miss Daisy, when the camera is facing them from the driver's side you can see where the camera is attached to the driver's door. [This may only be in the full frame version. In the wide-screen version, the frame doesn't show any of the door, just the top of the wing mirror.]

Revealing: When the computer is being hacked and the password and/or code for the database is shown on the screen, most of the display is for an Autodesk printer driver.

Continuity: When Mike and Max are talking in the equipment room, the clock behind them reads 3:27:40 twice - once before and once after Marcus drops the weights on his chest.

Continuity: During the shoot-out in the lobby of Mike’s apartment building, Chet calls 911 to report the event. In the first shot of him he is holding two dogs and in the next shot he is only holding one dog.