Big Trouble

Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene where the cigar dispute takes place, Bruce gets his fingers broken on his right hand. Later on in the movie, the two FBI agents encounter Bruce in his yellow Hummer. When he rolls down his window, his bandaged LEFT hand is shown.

Continuity mistake: When Eliot is coming to get his son after the missed murder attempt, he enters the room and walks towards his son then is nearly beside him. After it cuts to Anna, when it cuts back to Eliot, he is again walking toward his son. (00:19:45)

Continuity mistake: When Snake falls toward the water with the "kingpin's suitcase", the gun is in his right hand and he's gripping the heavy suitcase in his left hand. Yet, in the last shot of him underwater the gun and suitcase have switched hands. Interestingly this is not a flipped shot, the watches are still on his left wrist. (01:14:10)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Stanley Tucci throws his wallet at Tom Sizemore in the bar's robbery scene, the wallet hits Sizemore in the face, then hits his upper arm, then falls behind him to his right. Yet, in the next shot, it has landed on the bomb case on the floor to his left. The same thing happens a few moments later when Tucci throws his keys at Sizemore. (00:40:04)

Continuity mistake: When Puggy is at the bar, and the bartender gives Puggy his change, the money is either closer to him or farther away between shots.

Continuity mistake: Several times throughout the movie, the sweat stains on Tom Sizemore's shirt either disappear, reappear, or grow larger or smaller all in the same scene.

Continuity mistake: When Snake sees Eliot in the airplane terminal, he shoots at him once, shattering only the top half of the glass door (which is split in two by a metal bar). Eliot then leaves the terminal heading outside. He ducks under the bar and through the door to go outside.

Continuity mistake: When Leonard Ferroni trips at the airport the first time, in the still shot all the golf clubs are uncovered, but when they hit the ground three of them suddenly have covers. (00:05:35)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: At the Miami Herald, when Ken Deeber turns the computer to face Eliot, the Herald's homepage is visible on the PC, but when Eliot stands on Deeber's desk nothing is on the PC's screen. (00:03:10)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Snake shoots Arthur's TV, the reflection on the TV screen shows the couch and lamps opposite it, but the tall cabinet beside the couch and the huge painting with the table beneath it are all missing from the wall it faces. (00:45:30)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: After the Geo hits the goat on the way to the airport, Eliot swerves to avoid the traffic and we see the dent on the front hood, but the dent disappears and then reappears. (00:56:40)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: On the airplane, when Eliot pushes the suitcase down the stairs, Snake grabs hold of it with his left hand and while holding the gun in his right hand with his right wrist around the stair bar. In one shot the gun is gone and he's gripping the stair bar with his right hand, then the gun reappears again. (01:13:23)

Continuity mistake: When Matt phones Eliot about borrowing the Geo and in following shots, the objects on the windowsill behind Eliot change position. (00:04:00)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Nina wakes up in the treehouse with Puggy, the blouse collar hangs off her right bare shoulder, but in the shots facing her back, the collar is on her shoulder. (00:21:00)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When the drunk security guard trips, he falls a good distance away from the overpass/building behind him, but when Andrew runs off with the gun the security guard is lying much closer - also note the speed bumps.

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When the drunk security guard trips and falls after shooting at Andrew, Matt and Jenny, once the gun lands on the asphalt its position changes - note the direction it faces between shots. (00:36:20)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When the drunk security guard chases the teenagers, he trips and his gun goes flying quite a few feet away from him as he hits the ground, but when Andrew picks it up the gun is near the security guard. (00:36:20)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Desalvo's bullet hits Arthur Herk's TV the glass shatters and the bullet hole is visible on a black background towards the upper left. But in following shots much more of the glass is intact, with a large jagged hole in the glass surrounding the area of the bullet's impact. (00:16:15)

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: In the exterior shots of the airplane heading to Bermuda, there are only six windows between the cockpit and the open back door. Yet, in the interior shots there are at least seven.

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene where the cigar dispute takes place, Bruce gets his fingers broken on his right hand. Later on in the movie, the two FBI agents encounter Bruce in his yellow Hummer. When he rolls down his window, his bandaged LEFT hand is shown.

More mistakes in Big Trouble

Bruce: I hope you realize you've just committed assault.
Henry Desalvo: I know, I know. Time was, you actually had to hit somebody.

More quotes from Big Trouble

Trivia: The man driving the baggage carrier that brings the suitcase into Miami is seen shortly afterward driving the boat that Puggy rides.

More trivia for Big Trouble

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.