Continuity mistake: When the group are sitting with the General, the bites in Homolka's sesame cake change size and (dis)appear between shots. (00:29:40)
Continuity mistake: After the President's car explodes, the cart that Dr. Elliot and the others ride in suddenly moves closer to the explosion between shots. (00:23:45)
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Ross finds the dead people on the trasmission video, in the video there's a thick fog floating, but in real shots, no fog is there. (00:07:30)
Continuity mistake: After the President's car explodes on the runway, there's a shot of guards running over to it. In the wideshot these guards have vanished. (00:23:55)
Audio problem: When Charles Travis meets Jeffrey by the river bank, Jeffrey is heard speaking but his mouth doesn't match what he says. (00:04:30)
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Elliot's plane lands at the African runway, the baggage hatch is seen opening twice between shots as they exit the plane. (00:22:25)
Visible crew/equipment: When Munro Kelly opens his jeep door on the African runway, a crew-member can be seen reflected in the window. (00:24:25)
Revealing mistake: When the missile destroys the second airplane after everyone has escaped, the airplane suddenly stops moving forward. In the next shot where we see a close-up of the explosion, it is also stationary against the sky.
Revealing mistake: In the shot of a cargo box falling from the plane, a shadow from the plane is cast on the trees below, but the cargo box doesn't cast one. (00:38:20)
Visible crew/equipment: When the first missile is shot at the plane, as the plane rocks, in one shot you can see a tape mark at Dr. Elliot's feet. (00:36:40)
Answer: Seconds after he drops dead, an ape comes from where he'd been running from and throws a human brain at the living humans. This is Richard's brain, torn from his head. In the context of the film and employing a (fair) bit of suspension of disbelief, he must have had enough brain stem (where reflexes are governed) left to run and scream a bit before dropping dead. In reality, of course, this is an extremely unlikely if not impossible scenario, invented by the screenwriter for the purposes of a gruesome death. Perhaps inspired by stories like Mike the Headless Chicken, an animal which survived for months after having most of its head/brain chopped off.
That wasn't a brain that the gorilla threw; it was the head of one of the two porters with whom Richard remained outside the cave.
Phaneron ★