7:57 into the movie, Russell Crowe and the other cop are chasing a crook through a hotel room. Crowe gets pinched in a doorway by the crook with the door. The crook starts to bite Crowe's hand, so Crowe signals the other cop to smash the crook's head through the door with a mallet. When the cop does, he uses the handle end, and in the next shot, when he's pulling the mallet out back through the door, it's coming out with the hammer-head end first. See more...
Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Armand Assante, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin, Russell Crowe (add more)
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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During the beginning, in 1968, Jon Polito discusses with Denzel Washington about heroin which has the same quality as that in the film "The French Connection". While that part takes place in 1968, "The French Connection" wasn't released untill 1971. [They aren't talking about the film. They are talking about the real events that inspired that film- events that occured in 1961. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Egan.]
Corrected by John W Rosa
In one of the final scenes, when the drugs land at Newark aboard an Army plane, Russell Crowe repeatedly calls the Army official in charge of the operation 'Captain.' Judging by his highly decorated uniform and his age, this man cannot be a captain. [He has captain's rank on and that makes him a captain. The age someone looks and the age they really are differs. And his uniform wasn't that highly decorated.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
Towards the end of the movie, Russell Crowe is looking through binoculars at the shipment of heroin being moved into white vans. In reality he's looking through a gridded wire fence, however in the movie the fence isn't seen as the camera pans across (as the view represents what is seen though the binoculars). [When you're that close to a fence, using binoculars, you don't see the chain links that close as anything more than a blur at most, and when panning the binoculars, the links won't impair the focus much. I took a photo through a screened window once, and you don't see the mesh in the photo because the lens was so close to it, the focal point was forced onto the object further away.]
A few moments after the 20% rent deal for $1 in the cafe you can see a 747-400 (or later) in the sky, the winglets identify it as one of the -400 series (or later). The 747 had it's maiden flight in 1969 and entered commercial service in 1970, and the -400 had its maiden flight in April 1988. That scene plays in 1968, so there should not ever be a 747 of any type in the sky. [The only difference (visibly) between the original 747 and the 747-400 is (literally) 1.9m in upper cabin length and 1.2m in the height of the winglet. And the maximum difference in ANY 747 version is 7m or less. Only the most trained eye can tell the difference between the 747 and 747-400 and even then easily fooled. Further, you state that there should not be a 747 of any type in the sky at that point in time. I live and have lived in Seattle for all my life and currently directly in the flight path of Seattle-Tacoma Airport and Boeing Field, I assure you that Boeing did not fly the 747 for the very first time before the cameras and dignitaries of the "Maiden flight"! It was being tested (local and long distance) for more than 18 months prior to that date.]
Corrected by OneHappyHusky
There were more than 20 different times that the microphone boom was hanging down into the shots. [As stated in the mistake submission guidelines, boom mikes being in shot are the fault of the cinema showing the film. Mistakes of this nature are only acceptable if seen on a video or DVD release.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
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