The Tuxedo

The Tuxedo (2002)

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Continuity mistake: When the bad guy flies up to open the hatch he swings his arm and lifts it up. In the close angle that follows the arm is down and he repeats the movement.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Chan jumps in the car with his head totally covered in white powder, the exterior shots show his hair clean, the ones inside show it white.

Sacha

Visible crew/equipment: During the sniper/oil tank fight, while Jackie is hanging under the walkway, and climbing across with his hands, if you look to the right side of the screen, in the shadows, you can see someone perched there. They actually move for a split second and then sit very still. (01:40:08)

torgrimson

Continuity mistake: When Chan's friend is talking with the biker, his hot dog falls. Seconds later it magically reappears in his hand for him to throw it at the biker.

Sacha

Visible crew/equipment: When Chan is being chased by goons at the top of the silo, he hand-climbs back down underneath the walkway. Before he reaches the other side of the walkway, to the far left of the scene a cameraman is seen moving about in the shadows.

Mike Paul Wilson-Barrett

Continuity mistake: At the tower, when Jimmy mimics to Del, the noose around his throat keeps changing style between frames.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is laying on the black rug, it swaps from laid horizontally to vertically between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the tower, when Jimmy is presented the suitcase with the rifle in, the suitcase keeps changing positions all the time.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: A thug throws a table at Jimmy and magazines fall on the ground. They move closer to him between the first and second shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While laying on the hotel floor fighting, the white shirt on the floor keeps changing its shape between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the tower, Jimmy is hanging off with a bar in between both hands. When Del pushes him up, the bar is gone.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy drives backwards to park the taxi, the rearview mirrors suddenly appear folded, to allow for the car to fit between the columns.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After being on ingravity mode, Jimmy falls on a rug with his head close to the edge. A frame later it's 20cm away from the edge.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After trying on the tux, when Jimmy does some back flips there's a grey rug near a couch which appears /disappears randomly, and is sometimes closer or farther away to the couch, depending on the angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the cyclist crashes against the taxi door, the bicycle starts to fall, then a frame later it's leaning still against the cab. From a new angle it's gone, and later on appears in the middle of the street.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy falls on the bed, it breaks apart, yet fixes itself a frame later. Also, the fabric that falls on the mattress swaps positions between the aerial shot and the front angle.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the factory, when Jimmy falls on a container filled with white powder, the safety mat is noticeable.

Sacha

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Trivia: The bad guy in this movie was a bottled-water magnate. This was Dreamworks' dig at Vivendi, the French water bottler that also owned Universal Studios, Dreamworks' rival.

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Answer: Banning, head of Banning Corporation, wants to take over the global drinking water supply. He intends to start by poisoning major US reservoirs using genetically modified water strider insects. The striders carry bacteria that will spread from person-to-person.

raywest

Answer: If you're talking about his evil plan with the Banning Corporation, he wants to take over the world's drinking water supply (so that anyone who wants drinking water will have to buy it from Banning). He is trying to contaminate the U.S. drinking water with a deadly bacteria.

Bishop73

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