Revealing: Just after Li Mu Bai tells Shu Lien that they are very close to her headquarters and that she should check in, we are treated to two 'time pass' shots of forest. The second of these features some very obvious power or telephone lines in the lower right corner of the screen.

Continuity: In the scene in the cave where Jen's hands are tied the loose ends of the knot change from shot to shot.

Continuity: In the final scene in the cave, the protagonist walks under the rain and becomes wet. After the whole poisonous needle thing, the camera cuts back to her and she is completely dry.

Factual error: In the scene when Zhen is writing down the characters of Shu Lian's name, she writes the modern form of the "Lian". That form wasn't introduced into the language until after World War II, and this movie is set well before the fall of Imperial China.

Continuity: In the scene where the Policeman, his daughter and a guard fight Jade Fox the policeman throws a disc. Jade Fox spins around in mid-air to avoid the disc, here you clearly see the disc fall to the floor, but in the next shot Jade Fox is holding the disc again.

Audio problem: When Jen is kicking the crap out of everyone in the restaurant, she is supposedly saying a whole load of stuff, but if you watch carefully, she isn't saying most of it, it must have been dubbed.