Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt's bike is about to exit the campus, a green car is passing by, which disappears in the immediate wide angle of the street.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt and Indy ride inside the arched door in the campus, a couple runs away, yet appears still there from the opposite angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy and Mutt are about to enter the university, the guard is holding both gate doors almost closed. A frame later he's holding one completely opened.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt and Indy run away on the bike, there's a shiny red car parked behind. A mere frame later, a dusty greyish car has magically appeared parked next to it.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy is about to hop on Mutt's bike, a man walks behind him twice. First time slowly, second time fast.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the Mexican market, while Mtt is playing with his pocket knife, watch the chrome part of the light: it reflects a barren place with a brown squared building. When the angle changes it all changes to a bus and a lot of people hanging around.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the race between the soldiers and the youngsters in the roadsters, there is a shot of boots on the military vehicle's pedals and the next shot is of sneakers on the same pedals.

TrevorM

Continuity mistake: At the start, after Irina Spalko unsuccessfully reads Indy's mind she slaps him a few times. Then she lowers her hand, but in the following close-up the hand is raised and being lowered again.

msmall724

Continuity mistake: Inside the waterfall, Ox takes out the skull, moves his hand from the top to the side of the skull. The angle changes and the hand remains on the side, but when the angle changes to behind Ox his hand is on top of the skull, repeating the first movements.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: During the ants scene, Indy is about to grab a stick to the left of his hat. In the close-up the stick and the hat have swapped sides.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Inside the waterfall Ox takes out the skull while Marion watches from behind. When the angle changes, her hand is suddenly on his shoulder.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy uses a huge rock to smash the stone where sand is coming out and hands the rock to Mac. From one shot, Mac falls backwards and sits down, but from a different angle he is standing up slightly crouched.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Ox takes out the skull, Marion walks behind him, moving to a corner on the right. In the next angle Indy says, "Ox, I think I understand" and Marion is suddenly gone, only to magically reappear a frame later.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the Akator temple starts to move, the sand by the groups' feet keeps changing from sandy with a couple of rocks, to filled with weeds and leaves, and back to sandy.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the alien room, Spalko walks to Ox to take the skull away from him. In the first angle Marion is standing to the left of Ox, but in the immediate close-up she is behind him.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Mutt says, "We have to cross the waterfall," and extends her left hand. From the opposite angle, a frame later, he is extending the right arm.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the Russians arrive at the barrier the sky is either sun setting, bright and sunny, or cloudy, depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy finds out that Mac has betrayed him, Mac is standing half a meter away. Right after, from a different angle, he is 10 centimeters away, with the tip of his rifle touching Indy. And right away, from yet another angle, the gun is on top of Indy's shoulder.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Mutt's bike is sliding along the library floor, right before it comes to a stop it's pushing a chair on the right. A frame later the chair has magically made a 180ยบ turn and moved half a meter to the right.

Sacha

Dean Charles Stanforth: We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

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Trivia: When in the tent and forced to face the Crystal Skull, Indy dismisses the skulls as being from "Saucer Men From Mars". Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars was actually an early title for the film.

Jedd Jong

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Question: Perhaps I've forgotten some details from The Last Crusade in the years since I've seen it, but shouldn't Henry Sr. not be dead in this movie, because he drank from the Holy Grail which gives immortality?

Answer: Yep, you've forgotten some details. The Knight specifically states that the immortality bestowed by the Grail is limited to those who remain within the shrine. Jones Snr left the cave, ergo, no immortality.

Tailkinker

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