Continuity mistake: When Dylan is looking for Alma in the Mardi Gras crowd, he stops his conversation with Fuller and puts his phone to his chest. Dylan sees Alma and the phone is suddenly back to his ear. Then back to his chest again. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: In New Orleans, when Dylan finds Alma, there are two cops riding horses in the background. The shot cuts to a wide shot from behind Dylan where the horses are ahead of Dylan. The shot cuts again and the cops and horses are far in the background. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan finds Alma in New Orleans, the wide shot from behind Dylan shows him waving his left arm to her and keeps it in the air when he says "there you are", but in the next shot, his left arm is by his side. (00:44:20)
Continuity mistake: As the FBI and Interpol are questioning Etienne, when Dylan says the trigger word, he is looking straight forward at her. The shot then pans around to Etienne, and in the reflection of the mirror, Dylan can be seen suddenly in the middle of an argument with Interpol and not looking at her. (00:25:55)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan and Alma enter the interrogation room to question Merritt, he starts talking to them, looking straight at them with his head turned to the right, with his hands on the table. In the next shot, he is looking straight forward and his left arm is suddenly raised. (00:27:25)
Continuity mistake: When Merritt talks about a proud tradition in the FBI of men wearing dresses, Dylan is shown sitting down, placing his left hand on the file and his right hand on the desk. The shot then cuts to Merritt saying "No shame" to Agent Fuller, and suddenly Dylan's right hand is placed on the top right hand side of the file. (00:27:45)
Continuity mistake: Dylan is reading Merritt's file and says to Merritt "Says here you are a mentalist. So what exactly is mentalism?" When Dylan finishes saying "Says here you are a mentalist", the shot cuts to Merritt. Between this shot and a shot of Merritt two shots afterward, the chains on Merritt's handcuffs that are laid across the desk change position without him moving. (00:28:25)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel and Henley are walking up the staircase to the apartment, as she talks about Daniel's "anonymous posting" on her website, Henley has her bag strap on her shoulder. The shot changes to them reaching the top of the staircase, and the strap is suddenly off her shoulder and the bag is now behind held by her arm. (00:10:00)
Continuity mistake: After Merritt calls Daniel a control freak and Henley says it doesn't take a mentalist to figure it out, Daniel then says he would take it as a compliment. After he says this, the shot cuts to Henley looking at Merritt saying "Only he would take it as a compliment." In the next shot, Henley is suddenly looking at Daniel. (00:11:00)
Continuity mistake: When the magicians are standing outside the apartment showing each other their tarot cards, Daniel shows his tarot card The Lover whilst looking at Jack, but in the next shot, he is looking at Henley. (00:11:55)
Continuity mistake: When the Horsemen are congratulating Tressler at the Las Vegas show, as Daniel says "I want to say when we came to Mr. Tressler", Merritt and Henley are looking at Daniel, but in the next shot, are looking at the crowd. (00:18:05)
Continuity mistake: Merritt is doing a mental trick on a couple and starts by putting the wife into a sleep. In a long shot of the cafe, the husband is shown looking around the cafe. The shot cuts back to Merritt and the couple, and the husband is looking at his wife and Merritt. (00:02:10)
Continuity mistake: When Merritt mind reads the husband, he says "Beach. Cocktail. Florida?" and the husband replies claiming it was a business trip. As the husband says this, Merritt's hand is raised, but when the shot cuts back to Merritt, his hand is suddenly lowered. (00:02:35)
Continuity mistake: After Jack has performed the magic trick with the spoon, a member of the crowd pulls a spoon and a snapped utensil from his pocket and shows it to the crowd, one in each hand. The two items are level with each other. The shot cuts and suddenly his right hand is lowered whilst the left hand is still raised. (00:04:55)
Continuity mistake: When Henley is first looking at 45 East Evan Street, her tarot card is in her hand, pushed up against a cup of coffee. By the time she meets up with Daniel, the card is no longer pushed up against the coffee cup, but instead in one of the other fingers. She couldn't have moved the card, because her bag was in her right hand and the coffee was in her left. (00:09:30)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the plane scene to New Orleans, Merritt says "Allow me to make plain what we've both been thinking." At this moment, Merritt is resting on a pillow with a T sign stitched onto it. Merritt is first shown to be resting on the T, but a couple of shots later, Merritt is suddenly on the other end of the pillow. (00:39:55)
Continuity mistake: When Jack picks up the wet cloth to shove into Agent Fuller's mouth, there is a tap in a sink with a cloth and the tap is pointed to the left. Then as Jack drags Fuller over to the garbage disposal in the sink, the tap is suddenly pointed forwards. And when Jack shoves Fuller's jacket sleeves into the garbage disposal, the tap is pointing to the right. (01:17:20)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel finds the tarot card, he goes over to it and it is positioned on the edge of the table, then in a close-up, it is suddenly slightly over the edge of the table. (00:08:10)
Continuity mistake: When Jack gives the man the $100 for figuring out his trick, he leaves, walks down a flight of steps and turns around a corner and walks by a mysterious man. In the next shot, he is shown walking past the exact same corner at the edge of the steps a second time. (00:05:10)
Continuity mistake: At Pont des Arts in Paris when Dylan reveals his true self to Alma, the right page shown in the newspaper changes layout and stories. An earlier shot does not show a story about 12-year old Dylan while it's there in the second shot. (01:43:40 - 01:44:00)
Chosen answer: They would, yes.
Phixius ★