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Fire Down Below (1997)

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• Continuity: The guitar that Jack picks up changes from an old slot head acoustic guitar to a modern solid head acoustic guitar.
  
  
• Continuity: The windshield of the car that Jack is driving when it is rammed by the semi-trailer.
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the end of the movie, Jack throws a flare towards one of the fake US Marshals who catches it just inches before it lands in a puddle of gasoline. Liquid gasoline is itself not flammable; but gasoline vapor is. Holding a flame inches away from such a large puddle of gasoline would ignite the vapors.
  
  

• Continuity: The sign on the side of Taggart's truck changes from Hanson Mining to the sign for the church, and back again, on both sides of the truck.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jack comes to arrest Orin, the blonde girl standing next to him at the table is moving behind Orin. In the next shot she's sitting again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jack is chasing the detectives the rims/wheel trims of the car change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the driver of the semi is ramming the pickup, every time he hits the breaks the semi speeds up and you can hear the engine rev up.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Jack Taggart grabs the striking rattlesnakes, you can clearly see the wires attached to pull the snake dummies toward his hands.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the film, Jack is trying to offer a guy a ride, who refuses. The man who refuses the ride walks by the same car (and the same trailer) twice.
  
  
• Continuity: As Taggart trips the first attacker with a stick at the lumber yard, all the other attackers can be seen already knocked down before he's even fought them yet. In the next shot they are all standing up again.
  
  
• Continuity: As the two men bail out of the white truck there is no damage to the truck, but in the next shot the front grill is already dented before it hits the police car.
  
  
• Continuity: The burning remains of the fallen church steeple disappear the next time Taggart is seen.
  
  
• Continuity: An early shot of the burning church shows the sign out front on fire, but later shots show it still intact.
  
  
• Continuity: Early in the film in the barn fight scene when Taggert places the automatic at the eye of the bearded guy it is not cocked the hammer is down, in the next shot it is cocked with the hammer back and in the last shot before he removes it, it is not cocked and the hammer is down again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Taggert approaches Sarah at the church lunch she is standing near a low bush just behind her and to the left. She then walks away from Taggert 15-20 feet and he doesn't move but in the next shot she is standing exactly where she was when he approached her the first time
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in front of the doctor's office Taggert initially has hold of the hand of the cop in whose mouth he has placed the gun, in the next angle shot from behind the cop, Taggert is shown holding the cop's neck with his free hand and in the next scene he is again shown holding the cop by the hand
  
  
• Continuity: At the truckstop scene, Randy Travis' character's shotgun changes between a High Standard 8113, a Mossberg 500 and a Remington 870 all within the same scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Orin Hanner Sr. hits the cell phone with his golf club in the casino, he first lays the phone down on the floor on its back. When he hits the phone, it is on its side.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sarah runs in the closet at the end, Earl latches the door and locks it. Then when Jack comes to the house to find her, before he opens the door you can see it is unlocked and the latch is open.
  
  
• Factual errors: End credits: the producers thank the "Common Wealth" of Kentucky. Like several other eastern US states, Kentucky is a "Commonwealth" - one word.
  
  
• Continuity: When the tractor trailer goes over the cliff after hitting the pickup truck, you see the power unit break apart and the cab shell falling. The next scene shows the power unit intact, hitting the cliff face and breaking apart again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the chase scene long before going over the cliff, the semi is shown as a power unit with a load, then without a load, then a load again.
  
  
• Continuity: When the whiskey drinking guy is playing guitar he is holding a classical Spanish guitar, but as Seagal takes it out of his hands to start playing he is shown holding a different instrument, a steel stringed acoustic guitar.
  
  
• Factual errors: Many scenes in the movie take place in a bar in Jackson. Jackson is located in Breathitt County, which is "dry", meaning the sale of alcoholic beverages is illegal.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After getting off the plane and driving into town, the camera car is visible in the windows of the houses.
  
  

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