Best thriller movie continuity mistakes of 2000

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Pitch Black picture Pitch Black mistake picture

Continuity mistake: After Johns dies and Riddick is talking to Fry you see in one shot that only the bottle that Fry is holding is lit up, yet in the very next shot you see that all three, Fry, Jack, and the Muslim kid's bottles are lit. (01:23:40)

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Continuity mistake: The general shows the policeman photos of an assassin they want. They show pictures of him with facial scars that he actually receives after he has been captured and tortured. (00:28:30 - 00:32:35)

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Continuity mistake: After Willis rescues the people, he's at breakfast with his son and wife. He slides the newspaper to his son. Close-up on paper (beside orange juice) shows "Bold" typestyle on story slug. Camera pans up to Willis, cuts to son, cut back to newspaper. Suddenly typestyle is italicised (noticeable on "f" in "found"). (01:34:30)

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Continuity mistake: Luke McNamara is handcuffed behind his back at the police station but as he is loaded in to the ambulance he mysteriously is cuffed in front. [The handcuffs inside are normal police issue handcuffs and outside as he's getting into the ambulance they're attached to a belt, normally used for criminals they consider dangerous.]

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Continuity mistake: When Agent Connolly first finds the bomb on the ship, he is knocked over by Iris, dropping his gun. In the next scene, when they are running up the stairs, he has the gun, which he forgot to pick up.

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Continuity mistake: Several times through the film the Crocodile changes size from the size of a 30 foot croc to the size of a miniature barn.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jody is with her boyfriend on his bed, as he holds her neck the shot changes and he is holding her shoulder. This repeats a few times.

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Continuity mistake: When Bateman goes to Paul's apartment to pack up his stuff to "send him to London" after killing him, as he is packing the bathroom light is off and then about 2 seconds later the light has come on by itself with him nowhere near the room.

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Continuity mistake: After they rescued Pierre NiƩman, Kerkerian and Fanny out of the avalanche, they put an O2-mask over her face. The strings of the mask were full of blood - even before they touched the bloody face of Fanny.

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Continuity mistake: When Gene Hackman is helping his wife zip up her dress her hair goes from hanging straight down her back, to being over her shoulder. It cuts without giving enough time to assume that she moved her hair.

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Continuity mistake: When Monster is reading the love letter to Rudy in the trailer of the semi, when Monster opens it up initially, the letter is folded in fourths (halves down the middles), when they come back to him in the shot, the letter is folder into a tri-fold (like a normal letter would be folded).

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Continuity mistake: When Eloise goes down the staircase and Tom Tom stops her, she is clutching a book to her chest, holding it at the top. When the camera angle changes she is holding it at the side. (00:15:50)

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Continuity mistake: After the doctor stitches and dresses his own eye, blood disappears, reappears and gets bigger and smaller through the dressing.

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Continuity mistake: After his conversation with Leo, Willie presses the dial/talk button on his cordless phone and the light remains on. (00:59:40)

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Continuity mistake: 1st shot: Chopper's girlfriend leaves the car; the headlights are on. 2nd shot: Chopper leaves the car to go up to her stoop to talk to her (through a closed door) and after she refuses him, he runs back to his car (old-school vehicle, far before the advent of headlights that turned themselves off) and 3rd shot: the headlights are OFF.

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Continuity mistake: After the first time the mother disappears from the family photo, and the father and son are talking after the father "saves" the first nurse, there is a wide shot of the board with the family picture on it - and it shows the mother in the picture. When the camera zooms in on the picture, the mother is gone again.

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Continuity mistake: This film is based on the Rettendon Range Rover Murders in 1995, when some drug dealers were killed in a Range Rover, however in the film a new (1995-) Range Rover is used, I believe from footage at the time, a Range Rover Classic (1970-1995) was the car they were killed in.

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Continuity mistake: When the girl discovers her bed all bloody, she touches the blood and her hands get bloody. She grabs a book and starts flipping the pages, but if you watch closely ,you can observe that her hands are clean, there is no blood.

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Continuity mistake: When Bruce plays the clip of the Joker appearing at the rooftop party, the audio clip that plays with it is not the same as when the Joker actually said it during the attack. The clip seems a bit more subdued than the actual voice track.

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