Nothing to Lose (1997) - 43 mistakes

Continuity: When the two criminals are chasing Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence on the highway, they pull up beside them and the white criminal throws his cigarette at Tim Robbins, but in the next scene he has the cigarette back in his mouth.

Continuity: At the gas station with the hillbilly, the gas nozzle that Nick puts in his car when he is thinking of his wife is first red, then black, and then just silver.

Continuity: When T. has robbed a gas station, the hillbilly that owns the gas station breaks one of the mirrors of the car with a shotgun blast, and he even smashes the back window of the car. But when they are driving off there is one shot where the mirror is miraculously back in a perfect condition while the back window is still broken. In all later scenes the mirror is dangling down.

Plot hole: The policeman survives a frontal crash into the hillbilly's truck at full speed without as much a scratch.

Factual error: Visible lasers are never used as a security feature.

Factual error: In the scene where Martin Lawrence robs the gas station, the attendant runs out and shoots off the side-view mirror with a shotgun. Notice that the gun blast does no other damage. Not possible with that type of weapon as evidenced by the huge hole blasted in the back window of Nick's SUV only minutes later in the chase.

Continuity: After the run-in with Nick, T. Paul and the other two criminals, T. Paul ends up shooting the tire of the criminals' car, and they exit, leaving the criminals stranded. The criminals end up stealing an English guy's car, but when they catch up with Nick and T. Paul after they've robbed Nick's boss, they are driving their old, beat up, and supposedly punctured car.

Continuity: At the very end, Nick puts the last of Mama's mustard on his hot dog, but when he takes a bite, there is no mustard on it.

Other: When T. jumps through the rear window of Nick's van he falls on the street but rolls the wrong way, against any laws of physics.

Continuity: Nick's shoes catch on fire about half way through the movie. At the end of the movie when Nick and Terrance face off against Charlie and the other guy (from Platoon), his shoes are fine.

Revealing: When Nick tells T. that he wants to give the money back they start fighting. Nick's sleeve gets almost ripped off, but before this happens you can see that the sleeve is stitched on rather loosely.

Continuity: In the scene where the hillbilly is chasing Nick and T, T tells Nick that the five dollars he gave the waitress was the last he had, where in fact what he gave the waitress was a one dollar bill.

Continuity: When the 4x4 is being rammed, there is a shot of a car traveling in the opposite direction. In the very next shot, it is gone.

Factual error: The lasers shown protecting the office hit objects, like the desk. This should set the alarm off as it crossed and interrupted the laser beam.

Continuity: When being chased, the 4x4 gets damaged down one side. When leaving from the heist, it is fine.

Continuity: Just after they rob the gas station they do a turn in the road to avoid the cops. If you look you can see skid marks doing the exact same turn in the same place, revealing they are from previous takes.

Continuity: When Nick is fighting with T at the diner, the dog in the background is constantly looking in opposite directions between shots.

Continuity: When Nick is carjacked at the start, he drives through a red light. This turns to green before he reaches halfway across the junction. But cars still come from left and right.

Continuity: When T is saying to Nick what he would have done in Nick's situation, he has grass in his hair that is constantly moving.

Continuity: When Nick pulls into the diner the back of his truck is clean. When he parks it is covered in dust.

Factual error: On their way through the desert Nick and T. cross the Arizonian border. Shortly after that you see Joshua trees left and right. Joshua trees, at least in such abundance, are only found in Joshua Tree National Park, which lies in California.

Visible crew/equipment: When the security guard gets out of the elevator he does some fancy tricks with his torch. When you look in slow motion you see the pivot that keeps the torch in place.

Other: When Nick rams the bad guys car, the other driver reacts as being hit prior to impact.

Continuity: The hole in Nick's jacket from the gun shot disappears and reappears throughout the movie.

Other: The tape of Nick and Terrance's robbery is being reviewed, and somehow no one recognizes Nick's voice, his build, or the suit he has on.

Continuity: Before Nick and T. check in at the Royal hotel there is an outside shot where there are no railings on the balcony walls. However, in all later shots there are railings.

Continuity: When Danielle sits down next to Nick at the bar her curly hair is hanging loose over her temples. When they drink her hair is gelled back in a rather strange way.

Visible crew/equipment: Before Nick and T. rob the convenience store for two flashlights, you see a crowd of crew members reflected in left side of the window right after Nick runs into the toy racks outside the store.

Continuity: When the hillbilly shoots by mistake at the police car the windshield suffers four or five neat bullet holes in a circle. When the guy looks through the windshield there is one big round hole.

Continuity: When Nick and T. talk after their fight outside the desert diner, the dirt on T.'s hair keeps changing.

Revealing: Nick sprays T.'s eyes with mace, but a few seconds later, when they approach a red light at full speed, T. opens his eyes wide and they are not even red.

Other: In the scene where the two criminals try to rob Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence, Tim is outside the car and a split second later he is sitting in the passenger seat.

Other: Shortly after Nick takes off with T. he is heading for a truck from which a pallet with paper is being unloaded. The pallet blocks the whole space between the truck and the building, but when the camera angle changes to the other side, truck and pallet are shifted away from the building that there is enough room for Nick's van to zip through.

Continuity: When Nick and Terrance are fighting to get the extra credit card outside the restaurant, you can see a dog looking at something off screen. The next shot, it's head is in a completely different direction

Other: When Nick comes back to the hotel room after his encounter with Danielle and the elevator stops, he sees the two robbers walking by (not even looking at the open elevator) and enter another elevator which has stopped a moment later. Since this is the top floor of the hotel (as can be seen later) the logic elevator control wouldn't have sent another cabin to this level as Nick's was already on the way up.

Other: In the scene where T. is balanced on the railing and you see Nick's reflection in the window his mouth is moving while only T. is talking.

Continuity: When Nick tries to open the door to his company he enters a four-digit code. When he tries again he presses only three keys.

Continuity: When Nick gets back to the hotel room the robbers have left T. sitting on a chair, precariously balanced on the railing of the balcony, held back only by a bedsheet whose other end is stuck between the balcony doors. Only a small tip of the bedsheet sticks out right next to the spherical doorknob, but a few shots later there is a close-up where a larger tip sticks out and the doorknob is flat.

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where T. is balanced on the railing and Nick says 'I think I can open the door' there is a reflection of a crew member in the window next to Nick's head.

Continuity: After Nick and T. have checked in at the hotel Nick goes down to the bar to get drunk. On the counter in front of him there are five glasses in equal distance in a straight row, but when the camera angle changes the row is not straight any more and one glass is moved away from the others.

Other: In the scene where Tim Robbins confronts the two criminals to regain the money, he manages to shoot the gun out of the criminal's hand with a shotgun and inflict no other damage.

Continuity: When Nick and T. chase the two robbers to get their money back there are two tidy wads of notes stuck under the right sun visor. At a wider camera angle the money isn't there, but when it cuts back there are even three wads, and the middle one is rather crumpled.

Continuity: In one outside shot T. is balanced on the rooftop railing, which means that they have a penthouse room. However, from the first shot of the hotel it is clear that the 'penthouse' floor is only a utility floor.