Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Other mistake: As the divers prepare to descend to the Roman shipwreck, none of their buoyancy aid inflation valves are connected to an air intake. This makes the rapid inflation, which happens on their ascent back to the surface, impossible. (01:15:15 - 01:15:50)

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Suggested correction: Harrison Ford's voice has always sounded the same. Watch any film he's done.

Gavin Jackson

It's a noticeably "older" voice than in previous films when he was about the age his de-aged self is meant to be. I mean he's now in his 80s not 40s, of course his voice is different! An unavoidable mistake but still clearly different.

Harrison Ford's voice has definitely become pretty gravelly.

Phaneron

Other mistake: Towards the start of the film, at the end of the train crash on the viaduct, time seems distorted. By the time it's taken Indy to wade out of the river and walk up its bank, magically a troop of British soldiers appear from nowhere, having entirely and instantly overrun a train full of Nazis? (02:16:01 - 02:16:35)

Other mistake: When the divers ascend from the Roman shipwreck, an odd sort of heat-seeking mini-torpedo or poison homing dart projectile is fired down from the surface. Any idea what this is supposed to be? The henchmen on the boat appear to be wielding a knife, a Luger, and a (wrong for the period) 1986 micro Uzi. (01:10:20)

Other mistake: Whilst swimming towards the Roman shipwreck, the divers appear to be moving at a speed similar to an unrestricted diver wearing flippers. The drag resistance from the air pipe umbilical, together with the divers' lead boots, would make this an unfeasible maneuver in real life. Equally, the divers have no BCD or method of maintaining equal buoyancy and would sink to the seafloor - not swim like a fish. (01:13:14)

Other mistake: Dive boat interior, as the tablet is unboxed, there is a clear lens distortion as Indi looks round to his diver friend and the focus follows - giving a disturbing jolt to the image. (01:08:27)

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Suggested correction: It's not a distortion. It's a visual effect produced when the camera swaps from having a blurry background to a focused one. It happens again when Indy and Helena are about to steal the car (1:40:10).

Sacha

Suggested correction: It just appears to be the result of the movie doing a slightly unconventional rack focus. I don't think that really qualifies as a mistake. If it does count, it opens far too big a can of worms in terms of various camera techniques being considered "mistakes."

TedStixon

Other mistake: In Tangiers, Indy's cab pulls over in front of the mob-owned hotel where the famous illegal auction is taking place. It's dark outside, but when we see Indy in the hotel, and more evidently when they get out of the hotel and the car chase starts in the span of 5 minutes, it's broad daylight. That also means that just before 6 AM (when dawn would take place in August), the hotel is chock full of normal people boozing, playing cards, plus an assembly of rich baddies from all over the world who just happen to wait to have an auction.

Sammo

Other mistake: The US forces that apprehend Voller in Tanger carry modern-day M4 carbines. These weren't in use until the early 1990s. While similar weapons (XM177) were in limited use in the late 60s, the troops sent to apprehend Voller would much more likely have had regular M16s or WW2 M1 carbines.

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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Trivia: This is the first movie in the Indiana Jones series not directed by Steven Spielberg, nor with a story written by George Lucas.

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Question: Is it ever explained how Voller managed to survive his encounter with being hit square in the face and falling off the speeding train without a scratch? My thoughts were that he touched the spear of destiny earlier (focused on in a scene) and became immortal, but Indy said it was fake. Plus, Voller dies at the end in 217BC. He also seems to have aged little compared to Indy. Is that a plot point they dropped or forgot about or something?

lionhead

Answer: It was never explained and seems impossible that anyone could survive such an impact. My own thought was the scene was deliberately exaggerated to appear as if Voller was killed in order to fool and then surprise the audience when he later turns up alive. I also thought it looked as if he hadn't aged. Voller may have been much younger than Indy, possibly as much as 25-30 years. When Voller reappears in the 1960s, he looks more like actor Mads Mikkelsen's actual age. The film should have made him look younger at the beginning. There's a lot of "suspension of disbelief" here.

raywest

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