The A-Team

Continuity mistake: In the photo booth scene, Face gives Sosa a phone. Later on, after Hannibal had made a call to Sosa to set up a meeting, Sosa sees an incoming phone call from Face, on the phone presumably given by Face. That phone is a Nokia E71, which is a normal candybar phone. But when she receives the call, the candybar phone suddenly becomes a slider phone.

DinKnight

Continuity mistake: Just before they bust Murdock out of the 2nd insane asylum, Howie's glasses are on or off depending on the angle. [Extended version only]. (01:04:00)

Mr. S

Continuity mistake: When Hannibal and BA are speeding through the desert to save Faceman, the van is covered in dust. When they arrive, the van is shiny and clean.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Face is stealing from the French reporter, the collar on his jacket and the position of the hand holding the mic changes depending on the shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Hannibal rescues Murdoch from a psychiatric ward, they are escaping in a military van. Sosa fires several shots at the vehicle and sparks start emerging from the left rear wheel. In the next shot, as the van approaches an airplane, the sparks are now emerging from the rear wheel, then when the vehicle stops no tyres are flat.

Continuity mistake: When Charissa leaves the base and Murdock plays the guitar, the position and type of stuff on the table behind him totally changes in just two seconds.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Hannibal is put inside the crematorium oven, the door at his feet closes like a steel blind, with one blade going down over the first blade, to create a double door. However, when Hannibal opens it by kicking the door with his feet, the door opens upwards like a crappy trap door. If it were a back door he should have opened it with his head. There was no space for him to turn around 180ยบ.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Face and Sosa are in the photo booth, Face cuffs Sosa's left hand to a metal bar and holds her right hand up against the wall. After Sosa has stopped struggling, her right hand changes positions frequently between shots.

virtual-toast

Continuity mistake: Face asks the French reporter if she is French. When she replies "Yes" the paper she was holding against her chest a frame before disappears.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the base, when Hannibal is told about the plan to steal the plates, from the back shots his t-shirt is several centimeters away from the strap of his bag. From the front shots, the t-shirt is wrinkled around the strap.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the German parking lot, the baddie kicks the suitcase meters away to the left, but it appears right next to BA's head a couple of shots later.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the Extended Version, after Sosa is handcuffed to the photo booth and Face takes off, they show her trying to undo the handcuffs, but the other end of the cuff is no longer attached to the rail. When they come back to her after showing Face leave, she is once again handcuffed to the rail. (01:22:35)

CaseyS

Continuity mistake: When Hannibal runs the baddie over with the Mercedes at the German parking lot, the suitcase swaps from being underneath BA's head to by his right side in half a second.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: BA drives the van and brakes to avoid running Hannibal over, who's 5 meters ahead. However, when the angle changes, the van keeps skidding for at least 50 meters. Then BA pulls over and Hannibal is not only a meter away, but manages to appear next to the driver's window in less than a nano second.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the hospital, when Hannibal tells Murdoch to join them, in the wide angles BA is in the background standing next to the wall, far from Face. In the close-ups he's right by his side.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the team saves Murdock during the 3D projection, Charisa falls backwards but a frame later she is standing still.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While Faceman has the noose around his neck, a Mexican is next to him with a red gas can. When the angle changes the Mexican is far away, grabbing the gas can and approaching again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While he's trapped inside the tyres, the amount of dirt on the right side of Faceman's robe keeps increasing or decreasing randomly between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the pan around scene Face is shown with the 5th tire being put on him, on the ground scene he only has 4. (00:05:22)

Movie Medic

Continuity mistake: In the photo booth scene, Face gives Sosa a phone. Later on, after Hannibal had made a call to Sosa to set up a meeting, Sosa sees an incoming phone call from Face, on the phone presumably given by Face. That phone is a Nokia E71, which is a normal candybar phone. But when she receives the call, the candybar phone suddenly becomes a slider phone.

DinKnight

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Trivia: Just before Hannibal, Face and BA break Murdoch out of the hospital by driving the hummer through the wall, watch the credits rolling on the screen of the movie they are watching. Reginald Barclay is the character that Dwight Schultz (the original Murdoch) played on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the 2nd name ends with "StarBuck", the character played by Dirk Benedict (the original Face man) on Battlestar Galactica. We also see "Thomas", with the surname obscured - likely "Thomas Banachek", a character played by George Peppard, the original Hannibal.

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Question: Can a helicopter do barrel rolls and loop-de-loops like Murdock is doing after the A-team leaves the hospital and are being chased to the US border by Tuco?

Answer: They can, but only if they have a set of modified rotor blades to be able to do it. The Apache for one is able to do it. The Huey in the movie however is unlikely in reality to be able to do it - there would be no need to fit the modified rotors to what is essentially a transporter.

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