Factual error: When Xander's thugs are taking the Phantom up to the roof to do away with him, he breaks away and ducks into the machinery room for the elevator. In the scene the door of the room is lockable from the inside only. This door should be lockable from only the outside.
Audio problem: When policemen are pursuing the Phantom in the park, their motorcycle tyres makes sounds and sparkles on the ground as if it was asphalt, but it's dirt.
Continuity mistake: The Phantom and Diana take an airplane to escape the boat. Drax's henchmen shoot at it, touch the gas tank and gas starts flowing from it. You can only see gas two times, during close shots.
Factual error: When the policemen are shooting at the Phantom in the park, bullets make little explosions when they hit the trees, as if it was metal.
Factual error: When the car pulls away from the front of the "New York World History Museum", you can see palm trees reflected on the car, revealing that "New York" was actually filmed in California.
Continuity mistake: At the end when Billy Zane takes off his mask, the black makeup around his eyes "magically" disappears, even before the eyepatch section gets pulled from his face.
Visible crew/equipment: Near the beginning when the Phantom is rescuing the little boy from the back of the truck, as he is hanging from the rope bridge, the safety carabiner holding him up is visible several times.
Revealing mistake: The natives use a pair of nooses to trap the bad guys, but when they're lifted up, one can see the protruding hook and mechanism under their shirts.
Revealing mistake: When Diana is about to jump off the hydroplane, the safety vest on her back protrudes. Also, a safety bar along the plane's left side has been added for her to grab.
Revealing mistake: On the collapsing bridge, when the Phantom saves the kid, they swing on a rope hanging from the middle of the bridge. From a wide angle, it's very obvious that there is no possible way whatsoever that the short rope reaches the safe edge of the cliff. When the angle changes to the edge of the cliff, the rope is suddenly hanging from somewhere right above the edge.
Revealing mistake: When the Phantom chases the truck, he holds onto a branch where he later stands to attack the truck. In the close-up, one can see it's an obvious metal bar to allow for a safe stunt.
Continuity mistake: The bullet holes on the hydroplane disappear in the wide shots.
Revealing mistake: When Diana is about to jump off the plane onto the galloping horse, her hair moves wildly. When the shot changes, she has been replaced by a stunt who looks nothing like her and has her hair fixed.
Continuity mistake: When the young boy crawls on the sea shore after being attacked by pirates, his hairstyle changes between shots.
Factual error: Throughout the movie, any cigarettes smoked are filtered. The movie is set in the 30s-40s. The first filtered cigarettes were from a company called Lorilland for their "Kent" brand in 1952.
Visible crew/equipment: After the villain's have been in the cave at the beginning of the movie (one gets killed by a "skeleton") and they run out, the Phantom is chasing them on his horse. He grabs a bad guy by the shirt and throws him into a tree. Watch when the guy hits the tree- it moves, indicating it's made of foam or rubber for the stunt guy to hit safely.
Deliberate mistake: By the time the island blows up after Drax is destroyed, don't the explosions seem to move very slowly at the shot where Zane dives into the water?
Chosen answer: The explosions from the skulls and the weapons on the island caused the volcano to erupt.
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