Bulletproof Monk

Continuity mistake: When the monk is first teaching Kar to fight, the monk has Kar in a hold where Kar's arm is on the monk's shoulder, in the back and forth shots, Kar is holding the monk's shoulder and has his hand stretched out over the monk's shoulder. (00:53:00)

Sol Parker

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jade and Kar are driving in Jade's SUV to rescue the Monk from the German, Jade reaches down to hold Kar's hand, but when the camera angle changes, she has both hands firmly on the steering wheel.

Continuity mistake: When the monk with no name is fighting his master, there is a shot where they are both holding opposite ends of both poles and spinning in the air. In the close up of the monk, he is spinning in the wrong direction. (00:02:05)

Continuity mistake: When Kar and the monk are fighting Kar takes off his jacket and drops it on the floor. When the monk is kneeling on Kar's leg the jacket has disappeared. It reappears across the room even later. (00:47:55)

Joel Gordon

Continuity mistake: When the Monk tells Kar that he's going to help him with his fighting skills, you see the other 2 Monks standing behind them, one in front of the other and one of them puts his hand on the shoulder of the other. The camera angle changes and you now see them standing side by side. (00:45:38)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Jade shows Kar that she caught the bullet in her hand, the amount of blood shown when she first opens her hand to when the camera angle changes is different. (01:35:00)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When the monk has his hand on Kar's head, the shots back and forth show Kar looking up or looking down, depending on the angle. (01:34:00)

Sol Parker

Continuity mistake: When Jade uses the remote to blow up her SUV you see the bad guys all around the car. The camera angle changes when it blows up and no one is near the car. Then the camera angle changes again and you see a bunch of guys being blown away from the SUV by the blast. (01:20:05)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Kar is trying to scale the wall at the mansion he falls back into the middle of a bush and you see that the bush is full around him. The camera angle changes and he's now laying in a bush that is totally flat all around him. (01:09:07)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Kar and the Monk are on the boat, Kar walks up to the Monk and you see the right side of the blanket he's wearing is on top of the left. The camera angle changes and the left is now on top of the right. (01:06:06)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Bad Girl/Jade tries to see Kar at the cinema and he isn't there she leaves a note. Through the scene as she writes the note, her hair keeps moving from in front of, to tucked behind, her left ear depending upon the angle. (00:46:04)

Continuity mistake: When the Master almost falls off the bridge, the Monk With No Name gives him the pole to grab onto. You see the Master grab the pole and his hands are at the end of the pole. The camera angle changes and his hands are now at the middle of the pole. (00:02:29)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the old German guy finishes looking at himself in the mirror and goes to read the rest of the scroll, he's saying the words but he's not reading anything. He's just looking at the vital signs of one of the monks.

Continuity mistake: Even though both Jade and Kar get the tattoo inscription on their chests, the little smoky characters only float to Kar from the Monk. (01:32:35)

Continuity mistake: When Kar goes back to the warehouse to find the Monk, he pushes the door open and the 2 women hold up swords to his chest. The camera angle changes and the sword on the right is now on his shoulder. The camera angle changes again and the sword is back against his chest. You also see him standing with the doors almost closed against him when they were fully opened in the previous camera angle. (01:01:26)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Kar wakes up Jade who is sleeping on the couch, she grabs his neck with her feet and pulls him over the couch where you see her feet pull away from his neck. The camera angle changes and her feet are again wrapped around his neck as he's pulled over the couch. (01:11:01)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Kar scales the wall at the mansion he grabs the window ledge and you see that the window is about a quarter of the way open. The camera angle changes and the window is now more than half way open. (01:09:55)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When the Monk does his flip to avoid getting hit by the car, the bad guys get hit and their guns go flying in the air. You see the guns spinning in the air and they are facing the opposite direction from each other. The camera angle changes and you see the Monk grabbing the guns and they are now facing the same direction before he grabs them. (00:41:01)

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When the Monk is training Kar in the warehouse, there's a puddle behind them that keeps changing shape drastically or is sometimes gone.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When Jade gives Mr. Kojima the note, he's moving the popcorn tubs around. He places the smaller ones (which are stacked higher) to the left of the bigger ones and away from the butter.When Jade leaves the smaller tubs are back to being next to the butter and to the right of the bigger ones without him moving them.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When the monk is first teaching Kar to fight, the monk has Kar in a hold where Kar's arm is on the monk's shoulder, in the back and forth shots, Kar is holding the monk's shoulder and has his hand stretched out over the monk's shoulder. (00:53:00)

Sol Parker

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Kar: So, I figured it out, why hot dogs come in packages of ten and hot dog buns come in packages of eight. See, the thing is, life doesn't always work out according to plan so be happy with what you've got, because you can always get a hot dog.

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