Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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: 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

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: Inside the waterfall temple, the group walks by a room (with a passage on each side and a double entrance with steps in the middle) where natives appear and columns and walls fall off. The angle changes to a seemingly new room, but it's obviously the same place, with the camera angle slightly turned to the right. All the previous people are magically gone, the debris has disappeared, and natives are coming out of different places. Really odd editing. (01:30:35)

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: In the Nevada warehouse,when Spalko is opening the corpse bag, the amount of smoke coming out swaps from a lot to zero depending on the angle, without any logical sense whatsoever.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the Nevada warehouse, the first angle of the corpse's hand shows the baby, ring and middle finger together. When the angle changes, the position of the fingers is completely different, with the baby finger now totally separated from the rest.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt is pulling Indy out of the quicksand both are inches away from each other. A frame later Mutt is meters away in a different position, as if he had fallen backwards.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy's car crashes face to face against Mac's, destroying its front. When Indy runs away there's a view of the car and the damages are minor.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Mutt falls from the ladder in the graveyard, a native jumps from above to attack him. Indy is already on the right side of the scene, walking out, but when the angle changes he is standing on the left side, very close to Mutt.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Mutt's ladder to the temple ruins breaks and he falls to the ground, the position of the broken parts around him keeps changing positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the warehouse, after Indy throws Spalko out of the car he is about to crash against Mac, who grabs the car's window totally panicked. A frame later his hand is away from the window.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the graveyard, Indy hits a native with a shovel and knocks his mask and wig off, revealing a short thin hair. A frame later, when the native escapes, his hair is back to fuzzy and long.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the Nevada warehouse, when Spalko opens the corpse's body, its hand is covered in a white dust. A frame later it's clean.

Sacha

Factual error: In the warehouse scene, the lights and other metal objects are affected by the box's magnetic field. Yet the soldiers easily lift the box into a metal truck to load it and slide it forward. If the box's magnetic field was as strong as suggested, it would have dragged the soldiers forward as it was magnetically attracted to the truck, and it would have taken much more effort for them to slide it onto the truck bed once it was stuck there.

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Indiana Jones: Put your hands down, will ya? You're embarrassing us.

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Trivia: The young Henry nicknamed himself "Mutt, which is also a term for a dog. Indy named himself after a dog he had as a child that was called Indiana (as noted in the third movie). This is the first hint about their relationship.

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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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