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Revealing mistake: When the shark knocks the Apex yacht, the camera moves violently and people act as if they lose their balance, but the champagne in their glasses doesn't spill a drop.

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Continuity mistake: When Ben and Cat are climbing on the bottom of the sunken ship, the wide angle shows her away from him, already up. In the closer angle they're together and he holds her by the arm.

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Continuity mistake: After the boat sinks, the shark opens its mouth to eat two floating men. Their heads have been pasted in the middle of the mouth footage, but their bodies have suddenly disappeared, together with the floating device they held onto. Furthermore, they don't shout, cry, move, or show any reaction whatsoever.

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Revealing mistake: When the boat sinks, the shark eats a boat and, seconds later, two men in the water. For both scenes, the same footage of the shark coming out of the water and moving its jaws is used.

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Continuity mistake: Before the parasailing woman falls to the water, the parasail is behind her, but in the close-ups it disappears.

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Revealing mistake: The shark attacks the parasailing boat and makes the driver hit his head against a rail and fall unconscious. First of all, the bang of his head is not heard. Second, his hit and further fall are one of the worst stunts in movie history.

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Continuity mistake: When the shark is about to attack Scott, the parasailing boat driver, the shark keeps swapping from being way underwater to close to the surface in a matter of nano seconds.

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Audio problem: When Ben shoots at the shark, he falls backwards and pulls no trigger, yet bangs are heard.

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Continuity mistake: The same shot of the front of the boat is used over and over again, despite the waves or the speed changing in the wide angles the front is always moving fast on a calmed sea.

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Continuity mistake: On the boat, when looking for the shark, Ben lifts the speed handle and puts his hands away from it. When he grabs it again, couple seconds later, with the boat moving fast, the handle is down and he lifts it again.

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Continuity mistake: When a guy is playing frisbee with his dog on the beach, the sky keeps swapping from sunny to cloudy.

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Continuity mistake: Cat places a GPS and camera on the shark's right side of the tail, but the images they receive are from the left side of the tail.

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Continuity mistake: Cat places a GPS on the shark's tail, and the gadget sticks out as if someone had placed it from behind. But she was on the right side, and aimed straight, so there's no way for the GPS to be in that position.

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Continuity mistake: On the boat, the crew is filming the shark approaching. When it swims, bait suddenly appears hanging from the air, which changes to a humongous piece of bait half a second later, together with the climate, that swaps to cloudy, and then in a change of angle the bait is gone and it's sunny again.

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Continuity mistake: Before the cameraman is about to be attacked by the shark, he says he's filmed a great scene and gives a high five to Cat two times. The second one, she lifts her right arm but immediately the shot cuts to a close-up where she has her arm down, yet the sound of hands touching is heard.

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Continuity mistake: The shark is about to attack the cameraman but instead bites a wooden plank on the boat and withdraws back to the ocean, causing no human or material damage. However, in the following close-up, bite marks appear on the wood.

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Visible crew/equipment: After the 2 guys and Cataline arrive at Playa del Rey, one of them looks at her with his sunglasses on. The reflection shows no woman, but a metal structure with a brilliant light flashing.

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Continuity mistake: In Playa del Rey, the 2 guys watch Cataline's butt and she calls their attention. The glasses on the face of one of them keep swapping from being well placed to up by his forehead.

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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Seen from inside the train-driver's seat, the tunnel is darker and with lights on both sides, but a shot of the tunnel alone shows it brighter and with no lights on the left side. Then it cuts back to the previous angle and everything changes back.

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