The Last Boy Scout

Correction: According to this site's rules, if you have to use slow motion to see something, it's not a valid mistake.

Sacha

Corrected entry: Bruce Willis incorrectly states that "Bom" is a cuss-word in Poland. As a matter of fact, there is no such word as "Bom" in the Polish language.

Correction: He's joking.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Willis and Wayans chase the car containing Milo's friends, and it crashes, the telephone suddenly rings in the crashed car. Willis picks it up, but doesn't say anything, but the first thing Milo says is "Hey motherf***er". Lucky guess, considering he surely should have been expecting one of his own men to pick up the phone.

Correction: Milo knew that Willis would get the phone...Milo saw the crash from the freeway above while driving with Willis's daughter.

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie Mike calls Joe's office. Mike thought Joe was in Las Vegas, but he finds out he is back in LA. Joe comes back home to find out that Mike is having an affair with his wife. Mike had plenty of time to leave the house before Joe got there.

Correction: Except Mike didn't think Joe was going to come home, especially if Joe was back in town but at his office. Plus Joe told Mike he'd meet him at Mike's office in an hour. So Mike took a shower to get ready. Not to mention he was sleeping with his friend's wife, so he wasn't making the best decisions to begin with.

Bishop73

I don't know about that. I just know that if you are having an affair with your friend's wife and your friend is Joe Hallenbeck and if there is a slight chance he might go home. You don't wait around to find out.

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie there is a scene where Joe is sleeping in his car and little boys throw a dead squirrel inside the car. When the camera goes back from Joe to the boys, one of them flickers a glance at the camera.

Correction: When a character happens to glance at the camera lens it is treated as if the camera is not there - so the character is really only looking at that 'empty' area, which coincidentally is that of the camera's position.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: After Bruce puts the explosive into the back of his car and shuts the boot. The boot opens again. Therefore the bad guys don't need the keys.

Correction: The trunk does pop back open but when Jimmy Dix gets hit in the groin by the thug he falls/leans on the trunk closing it completely.

EMTurbo

Corrected entry: Bruce Willis discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend. He notices the toilet seat is up and that her hair isn't wet and says "sometimes you forget I'm a detective." If he's such a great detective, how come he didn't notice his best friend's car parked in front of his house?

Correction: This is explained a bit further on in the movie. Joe only "suspected" his wife was cheating on him with his best friend, and he also says during that earlier conversation, "What would you like me to say huh, f**k you Sarah?" He did not want to say anything until he was 100 percent sure.

The-Immortal

Corrected entry: There is simply no way that a helicopter could survive the impact of a human body falling vertically on the spinning rotor blades. The blades would be torn off or mangled too badly to work, and the helicopter would crash.

Correction: As a helicopter pilot I can tell you that not only would the helicopter survive, at most the pilot MIGHT feel a little turbulance.

Corrected entry: When the three bad guys throw Jimmy Dix off of the road onto the car below, if you slow it down, you can see, it is not the actor but a stunt double. (00:56:50)

The-Immortal

Correction: According to this site's rules, if you have to use slow motion to see something, it's not a valid mistake.

Sacha

Corrected entry: When Joe is talking to his wife in the bedroom, at the beginning, when the closet door opens the reflection of a crew member, wearing a white cap, is on the door. (Must use frame by frame.) (00:15:00)

The-Immortal

Correction: The rules of this site are very clear - if you have to use freeze frame, the 'mistake' is invalid.

Corrected entry: Bruce Willis gets a 5 inch blade rammed fully into the area above his knee near the end of the movie, but is able to walk perfectly down the sidewalk the next morning while talking with Damon Wayans.

Correction: There's nothing at all to state it's the next day - it could be long after the stabbing.

Lummie

Continuity mistake: Watch the Mustang blow up at the beginning of the movie. It looks to be about an 88 GT convert. When it is shown after the explosion it changes to an 86. Two completely different looking cars. Check out the headlamps. (00:17:50)

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Question: At what point does the suitcase with the money in it get placed in the trunk of the White BMW? It's clear that when Hallenbeck and Jimmy are running out of the rich white guy's house and take his car, you can see Jimmy putting the (money) briefcase in the car with him, and at no time in the trunk. Then, when they get back with the other briefcase containing the bomb, Jimmy also puts this case in the car with him, in the backseat. So when did anybody put the money briefcase in the trunk?

Answer: You're right, I reviewed the clip. You see Joe holding the briefcase and Jimmy run out of the rich man's house, then get directly into his car. At no time do you see him putting the briefcase anywhere. It's most likely a bad editing job.

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