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Natural Born Killers (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Scagnetti is in the room with the prostitute, her bra keeps disappearing and re-appearing ("Director's Cut").
  
  
• Continuity: Blood from a previous take is visible on the wall before the blood splatters on it when the cook is shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the waitress passes the redneck a beer, the glass bottle is clear, but when he's dancing with Mallory by the jukebox his bottle is brown
  
  

• Continuity: When Scagnetti is with Pinky the prostitute, she briefly looks over a magazine on a desk in the motel room. The cover photo is of Mickey Knox, smiling, from the deleted scene of his trial, which is not until later in the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kavanaugh gets up on his knees after Mickey takes control of the interview, one can easily make out the knee pads he is wearing underneath the uniform.
  
  
• Continuity: Mickey shaves his head right before the interview, but as he is led to the interview room there is a shot of his neck with chains on it, and you can see his hair.
  
  
• Factual errors: No human can take such a repeated and concentrated dose of Mace as Mallory does and open their eyes so soon afterword, not to mention Mallory's eyes open quite easily and do not shut during the spray. Mallory also doesn't apply any water to her eyes, and seems to recover naturally only minutes later.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Micky and group are pinned down in the Prison riot Wayne empties his handgun at the guards. Owen saves them, but a minute later Wayne guns down more Prison guards, without acquiring more magazines or visibly reloading. To add to this Wayne only takes three-four shots before his handgun again is emptied. Even if Wayne did reload, where did the other three plus shots go?
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Several times during the Prison riot scenes people's weapons constantly reload 'magically' as no one (save Micky) is ever seen to be reloading their weapons, nor even seen to be procuring shells or magazines from the bodies of guards, yet they still continue to fire. Again, this comes from reading the film too literally; the riot is not supposed to be taken as a realistic depiction of a riot.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the prison riots, guards can be seen firing from a security tower with their shotguns, only to have several prisoners overrun the tower. This makes little sense as all guard towers have doors with locks on the inside. Again however, this is coming from reading the film in too factual a manner. The riot is not supposed to be a realistic depiction of such an event.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the Prison Riot all the doors seem to be magically opened, the reason supposedly that the doors are jammed. The security locks in prisons are tested several times a day, and at the beginning of a riot all the doors would close and lock. However, as with the issue of the snake bites, this comes from an overly literal interpretation of the film, something which Oliver Stone strongly discourages on his DVD commentary track. The riot is not meant to be taken as a realistic depiction of an actual prison riot, and Stone acknowledges that great liberties were taken in the scene with the full knowledge that they weren't realistically accurate.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: No-one would be physically or mentally capable of casually walking around a shop after being bitten by a rattlesnake. However, as director Oliver Stone points out on his DVD commentary track, the snakebites are not supposed to be taken literally, but as a metaphoric infusion of 'knowledge' from the Indian shaman. He acknowledges that in reality, they should be dead, but he argues that the film is not a realistic depiction of reality.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Leading up to the Super Bowl the number of victims that Mickey and Mallory murder change several times from fifty six to fifty seven to forty eight and other numbers in the deleted scenes and unrated cut. This might have been done deliberately by the film makers to give the killers the larger than life pop lore they wanted.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the pharmacy shootout scene, the letters in front of the counter behind which Mickey is hiding change a couple of times. At first, during Mickey's standoff with Scagnetti, the counter reads "FOLLOW YOUR ... PROTOCOL", with a column obstructing the middle word. After the Japanese reporter says "Mickey's quite virile" the second L in "FOLLOW" disappears. Then after the reporter says "He has a very large gun" the O and the first L in "FOLLOW" also disappear. This may be deliberate however, and not an accidental error in continuity.
  
  
• Continuity: When the warden has been locked in the prison and the prisoners are charging at him, the shot facing the guards when they open fire on the prisoners clearly shows the warden climbing the bars, then cuts to a reaction shot of the warden still stood normally on the floor, then shows another shot of him climbing the bars.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Owen is leading the group through the passage in the prison, the barrel of the gun in his left hand is not a barrel at all, but a solid rod as it has no hole in it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: It's obvious that the "Drug Zone" is really just a department store, despite trying to be a medicine supermarket. When Mickey and Mallory are wandering through the aisles at Drug Zone, cleaners and other household products are seen on the shelves.
  
  

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