Best action movie mistakes of 2023

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny picture

Plot hole: At the start of the film, a young Jürgen Voller gets hit square in the face, at high speed, by trackside equipment and gets knocked off the train. But somehow, he isn't killed and survives without so much as a scar on his face.

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Factual error: Gabriel kills the engineer and sets the train to full speed, then locks the control room. Without the engine being resupplied with coal it would lose power and stop before too long, never getting as far as the bridge.

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Suggested correction: It is known for firemen to fill the loco up to allow it to run for 15-20 minutes without new coal. However, it could not run that long at that speed without the boiler being refilled with water, so the boiler would have exploded well before the fire reduced.

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Other mistake: Dante and The Agency both have extensive photos and videos of the team's previous exploits. Trouble is that most of it is simply stills and footage from the previous movies in the franchise, often occasions when nobody was around with a camera to witness and document what was going on, certainly not at the angles we see.

Jon Sandys

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Factual error: After a power outage the captain states that operating on batteries (?) he has 10 minutes of power, followed by an uncontrolled descent. That is ludicrous. Aircraft can glide to a landing with no power or engines. Further, commercial airliners have a Ram Air Turbine that can supply hydraulic as well as electrical power even if the engines are not functioning.

toroscan

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Character mistake: When McCall put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger, he's saddened that it didn't go off. Most handguns (including the one he was using), after the last round is fired, the slide locks to the rear. He would not have made the mistake of thinking it was loaded.

grb36peacemaker

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Continuity mistake: Wick takes the lapel pin off and places it in his right front jacket pocket. Shortly afterwards he takes it out of his front left jacket pocket. (00:49:10 - 00:56:20)

Movie Medic

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Continuity mistake: A cannonball fired from Captain Hook's ship hits a cliff where Peter Pan, Wendy, John and Michael are watching. The blast hurls the four into the air. When Wendy regains consciousness, she is lying face down on the shore as waves wash over her. As she runs up the hillside to search for the others, her clothes are dry and her hair is blowing in the breeze. (00:23:20)

Steven Lee

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Factual error: A large part of the film takes place in Pakistan, but all the cars there have steering wheels on the left as in the US. Pakistan drives on the left and the cars have steering wheels on the right side of the car. (00:57:21)

thetaz00

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Suggested correction: There's an article on huffpost.com by Jeanette Khan entitled, "Driving In Pakistan: Can You Handle It?" (12/18/08 updated 5/25/11) wherein it is stated, "Driving in Pakistan is like purposely courting death... Sometimes, people prefer to drive on the right-side of the road... The drivers really don't care they're going the wrong way. There really are no rules for driving here. People often do as they please." In fact, then, the actual driving practices do not conform to the written law.

KeyZOid

Or, are you just asserting that the cars should not have steering wheels on the left? The cars could be from anywhere, even if being driven in Pakistan. U.S.P.S. mail trucks have steering wheels on the right – this doesn't mean that they don't belong in the U.S.

KeyZOid

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Factual error: Kris is playing the original Gameboy and says he can't beat Bowser. No Mario game released before 1994 for the original Gameboy featured Bowser as a boss.

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Plot hole: When Freddy is in the alley walking, he shouts out "Shazam!" and turns into his superhero self; however, his crutch simply disappears when he transforms and isn't anywhere on him when he's flying in the next shot. (00:30:30)

jerimiah

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Audio problem: Before Flash takes the baby out of the microwave, it makes a ding sound as if the timer had ended, but the microwave is unplugged and not working at all as the scorched screen proves.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, when Mills and Koa are battling the dinosaurs, it is nighttime. Mills lures one of them towards the hot springs, and at this point, sunrise is beginning. After they defeat the final dinosaur, they go back to the escape pod, and it is back to being nighttime again.

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Factual error: When Jonas is exiting the escape pod airlock without his protective equipment in order to swim back to the other entrance, he purposely floods his sinuses with water (to remove the air) in order to cope with the pressure and not crush his head. At least this is the explanation from other members of the team with him. However, what about all that air in his lungs? At that depth/pressure, the implosion of his chest cavity would kill him within seconds.

sonichh72

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Plot hole: Jenny steals Dr. "Sanchez's" badge by bumping into him so she can get into the lab, but she never did anything to return it. But Dr. "Sanchez" is still somehow able to walk into his lab without his badge. And even if he thought he left his badge behind in the lab for some reason and had someone let him in, he doesn't do anything to look for it, which would have alerted him to a security breach before seeing the scarab missing.

Bishop73

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Continuity mistake: Final shootout: Agent Bannon (Kate) shoots Agent Delson (Tye) in the head, dead center of the forehead. When Vail checks on Agent Delson moments later, the bullet hole is off-center to the right. (01:36:05 - 01:46:40)

Jfish

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Factual error: After Napoleon's coup of the consul, there is a scene featuring Josephine carrying a toy Pomeranian dog. While Pomeranians existed at this time, they were much bigger in size (upwards of 50 pounds). The more modern type of Pomeranian that she is carrying wouldn't start coming about for another century.

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Other mistake: After the first guard at the chemical plant is sniped, the second guard goes to check on him and is surprised by the sudden appearance of an attacking helicopter. Helicopters are extremely loud, and flying as low as it was depicted would also vibrate the ground and the building. There's no way it would have been able to sneak up on the guard like that.

Phaneron

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the Spooktacular, Lucy is dressed up as a vampire. However, when Todd is playing the organ, Lucy's dressed up as a bat and then dressed as a vampire again. There's no way she can change costumes that fast.

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Continuity mistake: Scene inside the shrink's office at the beginning of the movie; Bert's daughter reacts as he mentions "the c word." Her mum is at the rightmost seat, with both hands on the pillow. In the next shot, her hands are in completely different positions. A similar mistake occurs later when the mother asks her daughters to leave. (00:04:40)

Sammo

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Plot hole: Venegas says that when the American coup was taking place, he was planning on taking a boat to Cuba. At the end of the movie, a news report shows the borders of Paldonia, and the nation is completely landlocked.

Brian Katcher

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