The Accidental Spy

The Accidental Spy (2001)

23 mistakes - chronological order

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Revealing mistake: It's funny how the bullets doesn't make any holes in the plastic tents during the shoot-out in the beginning. Bullets are flying everywhere inside the tents. (00:02:05)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: Buck hits the car which was following him fully head-on with the SUV, but as they are driving away, there is not a scratch on the SUV. (00:25:50)

Sol Parker

Factual error: When Buck and the reporter are leaving his father's grave, we see them driving on the left, then the right side of the road. (00:33:05)

Sol Parker

Continuity mistake: In the bath in Istanbul when Jackie is fighting with all the bad guys he gets alot of foam on his towel. When it cuts all the foam is gone. (00:38:35)

Mortug

Visible crew/equipment: When Jackie is running away from the people chasing him on the rooftops, and then jumps from one building to the next with a fence on it, you can see the shadow of the cameraman and equipment. (00:39:10)

Factual error: In the scene at the harbour where the Istanbuli man gets shot several times, 3 seconds after the army get into the room, the dead man accidentally blinks. It is very easy to notice. (00:49:30)

Continuity mistake: When Buck grabs the girl in yellow by the arm, you can see that he has her by the upper arm, just above the elbow, when the shot changes, he is holding her just below the elbow. (00:59:50)

Sol Parker

Continuity mistake: When the police motorcycle crashes into the car, the car has already been dented before the police motorcycle hits it. (01:09:54)

Panther

Continuity mistake: First we see the BMW 323 i pass the car that the police motorcycle crashed into, then in the next clip the BMW 323 i crashes into it. (01:09:55)

Panther

Continuity mistake: When the police car lands on the row of cars, you can see that the BMW 323i is parked right behind the car it just crashed into. The BMW crashed at a completely different angle. (01:09:59)

Panther

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Revealing mistake: When Jackie rescues the kid from the burning petrol truck you can see that they used a dummy when he dropped the kid. (01:11:36)

Panther

Continuity mistake: When the gasoline truck enters the market it breakes its window but when they leave the market it's back to normal. (01:13:30)

Panther

Continuity mistake: When the gasoline truck makes a hard right turn and leaves the market you can see that is a stunt driver steering the truck. Not the same old man as it used to be. (01:13:41)

Panther

Revealing mistake: When the gasoline truck leaves the market you can see many folks standing and watching the filming of the movie. (01:13:41)

Panther

Continuity mistake: Carmen tells Jackie that a rescue squad is waiting for them on the highway on the right side. When they meet the rescue squad they are on the left side. (01:14:00)

Panther

Continuity mistake: When the gasoline truck falls from the bridge, Jackie jumps from the same bridge. During Jackie's fall the truck is already visible on the ground, but a shot later the truck is still falling from the bridge. (01:39:33 - 02:39:35)

Continuity mistake: The gasoline truck falls from the bridge onto the road, but a shot later the truck explodes on the sandbank next to the road. (01:39:33 - 02:39:35)

Factual error: When there's a fight on the cabriolet between Jackie and one of the two bandits - when the car smashes into the fuel truck, the fighting bandit somehow flies backwards where according to the laws of inertia he should have flown forwards.

Continuity mistake: The flames on the truck change often, from the back they are just around the base of the tank. But many times from the front, you can see them billowing out the back using an obvious special effect.

Sol Parker

Trivia: On the front cover of the UK DVD, Jackie appears posed with three other characters (one male, two female). Strangely, none of these other people are actually in the movie.

Madstunts

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