Continuity mistake: When the bodyguard jumps down to save Jackson, he jumps down with a paint can in his hand that has a hose attached to it. When he lands he still has the paint can but the hose is no longer attached.
MCKD
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Jackson steals the cop car he drives over a speed bump and the emergency lights of the car fall off. In the next scene the lights are back on the roof of the car.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the 2 bad guys are holding Jackson asking why he is looking for Poppodock, camera angle from front shows them holding him differently than the camera angle from the back. Happens about 3 times.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Jackson finds Poppodock's privates in the cupboard, right before he opens the door the bartender is taking a drink from his beer bottle and when Jackson opens the door, he's taking the same drink again.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Peter shoots his wife he's hugs her and kisses her goodbye. When he pulls away from her, there is blood all over her white shirt but nothing on his.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Jackson jumps over the cab, the cab becomes airborne after hitting the back of a light blue car and crashes into a car dealership. When Jackson follows the car into the dealership, the light blue car is no longer there.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Revealing mistake: When Jackson jumps on top of the cab to catch Tony's killer, you can see the handles on the roof that the stuntman is holding on to so he doesn't fall off.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Tony is talking to Jackson after Vanity sings her first song, he's seen trying to light his cigarette at least 3 times but never does because he keeps answering Jackson's questions. Then they bend down to talk and his cigarette is now lite.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the guys are on the boat walking and telling jokes. The wide camera angle shows them walking side by side, but when the camera angle zooms in for a close up the Captain is now walking and talking behind the other guy a few steps.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Albert bumps into the cop who then spills his drink on Action Jackson's desk, Albert is behind the cop. But when the camera angle changes to a shot behind Jackson's desk, Albert is now on his knees in front of the desk.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Albert tries to grab the purse of the woman on the street, the bag of groceries she's carrying in her other hand fall to the side, but when the camera zooms in food is underneath Albert as she hits him with her pocketbook.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: On the subway Albert looks at the woman counting money and his necklace in tucked under his shirt. The camera pans back for a wider shot and his necklace is now outside of his shirt, and when the camera zooms in, it's back underneath his shirt.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the secretary dies, she dies looking straight up on her back, when Frank looks at her she's still on her back but her head is looking to the left and she's not in the same location she died at.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: When the assassins push Frank's secretary through the glass, the glass breaks before she even touches it.
2nd Jul 2003
Action Jackson (1988)
Continuity mistake: Right before the assasins appear at Frank's office, the coke can that was on his desk disappears.
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