The Omega Man (1971) - 21 mistakes

Visible crew/equipment: Very early on in the movie, Neville is happily driving around the deserted streets. Half way through this scene the camera shows us Neville's view out the front windscreen of the car. Ahead, moving cars can be seen crossing the intersection, obviously where the streets hadn't been blocked off for the filming of the movie.

Revealing: In the scene at the stadium where Lisa is helping Neville escape from Mathias' people, it is extremely obvious that in the far shots, it is a stunt man (wearing a very bad grey wig) driving the motorcycle, and Charlton Heston in the close up shots.

Other: In the opening scene where Charlton Heston drives into a Deserted Los Angeles, he drives past at least 3 people walking down the sidewalk. The first person he passes is quite visibly holding up the traffic for the shooting. Another can be seen on the left of the screen when Heston puts the tape on. And one more can be seen in the wide shot of the street. Other than this, the film makers did a great of making LA look deserted.

Continuity: When Neville flips the car over that he's driving, you see him shooting at the mutants and you can see the tire still turning. The camera angle changes and the tire has stopped turning.

Revealing: When Neville gets back to his fortress-apartment, he boots up the video surveillance system, switching on several closed-circuit monitors. The very largest screen, however, shows himself, looking toward the screen. As he turns about his image on the screen doesn't turn the correct way; it moves like a mirrored image: he turns to the right, the image turns to the left. The image ought to turn in the same direction. The image in the video screen was photographed separately (and not quite inaccurately), and added later in post-production.

Continuity: In at least one scene, traffic lights are shown flashing. Where's the power coming from?

Revealing: When an arrow is shot at Neville, the guide wire for the arrow is visible.

Deliberate "mistake": In the scene where the generator runs out of gas and Neville rappels down the elevator shaft to refill it, Lisa is startled when she hears the elevator coming up to the top floor. The problem is the elevator was already on the top floor when the power went out.

Visible crew/equipment: When Neville and Matthias are fighting, Neville escapes and starts running away. As the camera angle follows him, you can see the shadow from the camera.

Continuity: In the opening scene when Neville almost hits the armored car, he crashes his car into the curb. The shot shows the car from a side view hitting the curb, and the tire going up over the curb, still intact. Next shot shows Neville getting out to check the damage, and the tire is now flat.

Revealing: When Neville is checking Richie to see how far along he is in the transformation process, while looking in his eyes you can see the white contact lens move.

Deliberate "mistake": During the opening shot and titles, Neville is shown driving by the same block three times, each from a different angle. The first shot is high, the second shot (00:01:50) is from the hood of the car looking at Neville, and the third (00:02:40) is ground level.

Continuity: When Lisa sees the family marching towards Neville's house, in front of the building on the left is a waste can and a mail box on the opposite corner. When Neville drives by the same building a short time later, there is now a dark car parked in front, two other cars parked on the sidewalk further down the street, and the mail box has moved across the street by the door.

Visible crew/equipment: When Neville crashes his car, you see an armored car near him. The camera angle changes and you can see the filming crew in the mirror of the truck.

Audio problem: When Neville and Lisa are in bed, you hear Lisa talking but her mouth is not moving.

Other: Early in the movie, when Neville wrecks his car he takes the gas can out of his car and starts walking down the street. As he does they switch to a wide view of the city in which you see about three city blocks. When you look at the only "through" street in the shot, there is a car making a left hand turn about three blocks down that street and just behind the car is the freeway overpass with two or three cars passing on it, before the shot ends.

Visible crew/equipment: When Neville is jogging, he gets to the last column of a building and you can see the filming crew in the reflection on the left.

Continuity: When Neville is in the helicopter with the cure, you can see by the reflection of the trees in the glass that the helicopter is not moving.

Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, Neville crashes the car he is driving and gets out to look over the damage leaving the car door open. He decides to walk away from the car and you see the car door still open. The camera angle changes and the car door is now closed.

Continuity: Robert Neville ends his morning run in a downtown Los Angeles left empty by biological warfare except for vampiric mutants led by Jonathan Matthias. Only trouble is, when director Boris Sagal purports to show the audience how "dead" Los Angeles is by displaying four wide shots of the city after Neville yells "Hey, Matthias." you can see a white car in the right background of the last L.A. wide shot moving along quite briskly.