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Visible crew/equipment: When the SUV gets blown up, in one quick shot you can see a cable pulling the car forward.

Visible crew/equipment: When Trey is driving down the alleyway after the truck, an inside shot is shown and visible in the window onside of the police car you can see at least 2 reflector screens the camera and the truck towing the car.

Visible crew/equipment: At the end when Mitch is getting dragged down on the floor about to go over the edge and Trey grabs him, the stuntman is visible.

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene when Eddie Murphy is first seen driving the corvette up the carpark ramps doing all the fancy driving, it is very obvious that the actual driver is a white guy.

Visible crew/equipment: Right after the bad guys rip off an armored truck, there is a chase scene where a police car flips over and slides down the street. For a split second, you can see the cable that is pulling the car.

Visible crew/equipment: In the armored car chase, the first cop car to get shot flips over and you can see the large metal pole that is used to do the stunt. It even rolls down the street with the car after the explosion.

Visible crew/equipment: When Mitch is jumping from the garbage truck onto the hood of the Corvette. In the second shot he jumps off, the stuntman is visible.

Continuity mistake: Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy visit the crime scene where the house is demolished, and Eddie Murphy is sometimes seen through the recording video camera. The counter is first at the 55 minute mark, then changes to 21 minutes in the second shot, then 23 minutes less than a minute later, and finally the 26 minute mark approximately a minute later.

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Detective Mitch Preston: Get that camera out of here.
Trey Sellars: Keep that camera right where it is.

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