Continuity mistake: When Xander stops Viktor to inquire about Kiril's coat-sniffing habits, a bowling ball appears literally out of nowhere between Jan Filipenský's hands between shots. (00:56:00)
Continuity mistake: The wire transfer has been successful in dramatic fashion and Yorgi is telling Xander about the famous car number 10. He passes the paper to his brother; Kolya is at distance from the car, in fact he even steps away from it, to his right. But in the next shot, he winks at Xander standing by it, elbow on its roof. (00:47:20)
Continuity mistake: In the close-up where agent Toby Lee Shavers grabs the gun from the case to show it to XXX, the owner of the hand in shot is wearing a ring on the left ring finger. In the following bit, the prematurely departed Michael Roof is sporting the ring on his right hand. The same mistake (left hand ring in close-ups, right hand ring for the other shots) happens when he picks the binoculars up and when he applies the bandage. (00:43:30)
Continuity mistake: Xander's own personal Q (Toby Lee Shavers) shows him the various gizmos; when they're done with the pervy binoculars, TLS holds up a box of band-aids. Michael Roof's hand is in a completely different position on the box between shots. (00:45:00)
Continuity mistake: XXX meets agent Toby Lee Shavers; he is initially pestering a local female officer but then has to turn his attention to Xander. Keep an eye on the woman; she puts both hands on the computer monitor, but at the cut she is in a totally different position. (00:42:25)
Continuity mistake: For their first meeting, Xander and Yelena entertain a very overwritten conversation taking jabs at each other. He says he'd send her to 'charm school' and she does a weird sound sucking through the teeth as she walks away. Her shawl leaves her upper bare completely bare, but at the cut, it's all the way down covering her completely. (00:39:40)
Continuity mistake: Xander just shot the cop, who goes face first into a glass panel. Close-up on the car wheel, then the whole car is in frame. Xander has his hands on the wheel, or at least, he's not still pointing the gun. But he is a second later. (00:49:45)
Continuity mistake: Yorgi's henchman with the super-pointy stache beckons Xander in close-up once he hears the word "cops." In the same shot he lowers the hand he was using to gesture, but the same hand is still up beckoning in the next shot. (00:35:35)
Continuity mistake: When Xander barges into Yorgi's private section saying "Yo, I'm American", the two goons behind him are quick to hold him at gunpoint. They also hold a different position between shots (the one with long hair suddenly has his hand on his knee and the other one re-points the gun). (00:35:20)
Continuity mistake: When XXX jumps with his bike at the man with the golden dentures, in the wider shot the man raises his weapon, but in the semi-POV shot his face is completely open for the bike trajectory, no weapon in sight. (00:26:05)
Continuity mistake: When Vin Diesel and the guy who kinda looks like him look at each other as they just woke up, Mini-Diesel's leg is at a different angle in the two shots. (00:16:35)
Continuity mistake: The waitress pours Xander some coffee with very shaky hands. You can see instantly Xander reach the cup and lift it, but the next shot shows him taking his time, glance suspiciously at the waitress and only then pick his coffee up. (00:13:20)
Continuity mistake: Xander is hit for the first time by a tranquilizing dart. He plucks it out and then begins to collapse, holding the dart in hand, his right one. The faraway shot shows him fall but A) he is still just plucking out the dart and B) he holds it in his left hand. (00:12:20)
Continuity mistake: When the cops look at Tony Hawk and the others driving off, from the bridge the parachute is less spread all over the trunk than in the close-up of their taunting. (00:09:45)
Continuity mistake: Senator Dick Hotchkiss leaves the car in the capable hands of the 'man from Tijuana'. He walks towards the club with his trophy blonde and shakes hands with two people. Meanwhile the valet puts the reverse and zooms away. The senator turns, but the two people he was chatting with are gone. (00:06:20)
Continuity mistake: After infiltrating the Rammstein concert using his sonic screwdriver, the secret agent is moshing his way through the rabid crowd. In the initial phase of the chase, shortly after Yorgi says "Zaraza" you can see that the band members are not wearing their mouth flamethrowers yet, or they already are, with no continuity. (00:02:10)
Continuity mistake: The person assaulted by the James Bond clone at the beginning of the movie is walking across the square; he casts shadows in directions not coherent from shot to shot. (00:00:50)
Continuity mistake: Xander Cage whips out the grenades and tosses them behind him to do a Mulan and create an avalanche. He does not zip his jacket back up, but it is during the rest of his slide. (01:29:35)
Answer: Vin Diesel chose to reject the sequel as he was being offered three different franchises, based on XXX, The Fast and the Furious concept and the character of Riddick (from Pitch Black) - he presumably felt that he couldn't commit to them all. In the end, he chose to go with the Riddick films and reject the others. The sequel is called XXX for the simple reason that the character is still present - they've just recast the role.
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