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Rush Hour (1998)

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• Continuity: The same store is passed twice When Carter jumps on the bus after catching Detective Lee.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Tania Johnson answers her AT&T cordless phone, it makes the error noise that indicates the base is disconnected or out of range, yet she uses it as if having a normal conversation.
  
  
• Continuity: When James Carter arrives to be briefed as an FBI agent, his Corvette has a mag wheel on the right front. The next time we see his car, it has spoked wheels all around.
  
  

• Continuity: The ransomer clearly demanded a combination of $10, $20, and $50 bills. Later, when the case of money bursts open and Carter is lying on the floor, we see him surrounded by $5 bills. (The fact that the ransom demand was increased shouldn't be relevant here, since the demands made for $50M would also apply at $70M.)
  
  
• Plot holes: $50M in the demanded a combination of $10, $20, and $50 bills would be over 2 million bills and weigh several tons. It would clearly not fit into a couple of suitcases.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After Lee has revealed he can speak English, he doesn't tell Carter that "he never asked," which wouldn't be true; he just says, truthfully, that he never said he didn't.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Lee gets on the bus outside Mann's Chinese Theatre he travels a short distance and then the bus turns a corner, it travels a few blocks before Lee exits by grabbing a street sign. The sign is for Hollywood. However Mann's Chinese Theatre is on Hollywood, and the bus had supposedly traveled some distance before he got off.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carter pulls the guy off the motorcycle, and he jumps on and takes off in pursuit, there's the sound of shifting gears, yet his foot is not on the gear shift.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Captain Diel is telling Carter about the case he states that the Consul's little girl is ten but when Lee and Carter are at the jail talking to Clive, Lee tells Clive that the little girl is eleven. Lee is using the Chinese method of counting ages, where a person is one year old when born.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Tania Johnson hangs up on Carter we hear a dial tone. It's a useful cinematic device to accentuate the hanging-up moment, but you don't hear a dial tone on a cell phone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Clive's Jaguar explodes on the road, a camera is visible in the middle of the road.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carter finds Sang in the room where the money is counted, the wounded FBI Agent is shown twice. The first time, his gun is holstered, and the second time there is no gun.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The motorcycle being ridden by Tucker, Chris sounds like it changes gears when his feet are in the air.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in one of the blast shields during the bomb disposal training.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lee tries to escape from Cater, the yellow cab changes from a Crown Victoria to a Caprice and back to a Crown Victoria again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Lee is on the bus, and jumps on the Hollywood street sign, it is clearly not attached to the overhead traffic light. In the following shots, the crane holding the sign for the stunt is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood on Soo-Yung's face after her driver and bodyguard are shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lee and Carter are driving in the Corvette listening to the Beach Boys, there is a brief shot of the steering column and there are no keys in the ignition.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Near the end of the movie, when Lee is falling from the roof of the Expo, a whole camera crew is visible in the background
  
  
• Factual errors: Cliff has "C4", commonly known as plastic explosive. Plastic explosive is an extremely stable substance (hence its popularity with legitimate users) and cannot be detonated by bullets, fire, etc.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carter picks up the tapestry, some of the fallen bills are lying on it. When Lee slides down, the money is gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: There is a Vietnamese flag inside the consul's home when it is clear that Consul Han represents China
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera reflected in the window of one of the van's rear doors as Carter opens them up to get Soo-Yung out of it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final battle at the Chinese Art Exhibition, Lee uses his foot to get hold of a metal pole (one of the kind that a velvet rope is hooked to) and then uses it to smack a henchman in the face. As the villain is hit, the metal pole has lost all of its luster and bends slightly as it flies through the air, showing that it is clearly made out of rubber.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Juntao falls to his death in the exhibition building, Carter is shown stuffing a handful of cash into his shirt. A moment later, after Juntao has fallen and Carter rushes to catch Lee with the banner, all of the money has disappeared from his shirt.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the Billiard Hall at the beginning of the fight, Lee goes to grab a barstool with his feet and it has a bright red seat cover and round metal legs. Right before he hits the bartender, it changes to a dull red seat cover and black painted two by fours for the legs.
  
  
• Continuity: As Lee and Carter are sliding down the steps of the Foo Chow Chinese Restaurant, after fighting in the upper room, you see a bullet hole in the wall, which is clearly not on the wall in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Juntao walks out of the control room, he grabs two cases of money, when he reaches the top of the ladder in the Expo Center, he only has one.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Carter arrives at the Consul's mansion and we see Carter's Stingray in the background as we walks over the door threshold, the wheels are different than the wheels before-when he threw the keys to the agent and told him to 'take care of it'.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The United Airlines Boeing 747 is a newer model 747 (the 747-400). Yet the stairs shown in the aircraft belongs to the earlier model 747 (the 747-100 and 747-200).
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the final battle, Chan's tuxedo suspenders change from x-back to y-back to x-back again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the Chinese Restaurant, Carter is restrained by Juntao's thugs. When Lee enters and successfully fights the guards, both Carter's captors go to help. One punches Carter, and proceeds to pick up a safe/box on the wooden/glass table. However, when Carter reacts by kicking the table and tripping the running captor, the man falls, and the box has disappeared from his hands. No signs of him dropping the box or it being thrown are seen.
  
  
• Factual errors: Toward the end of the movie we see a news van with "channel 8" and call letters on them that start with "W." Television stations in Los Angeles and any city west of the Mississippi River have call letters that start with "K" and not "W."
  
  
• Continuity: When James Carter takes the joint away from the man at the pool hall, the joint changes size.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final shootout scene at the LA Convention Center, Juntao calls for a position report of the helicopter inbound to pick him up. When the camera cuts to the helicopter, a Eurocopter AS-355 "Twinstar" is shown. Later when Juntao makes a second radio call to the helicopter to instruct the pilot to pick him up on the roof, the camera cuts to a shot of a helicopter hovering above the convention center. The helicopter shown is an Augusta Westland A-109 Power or a variant of that type.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During Lee's fight in the pool hall, he slides under one of the tables, turns around, and smashes a table lamp/light into a headless dummy.
  
  
• Continuity: On his approach to Chief Inspector Lee's, Detective James Carter's Corvette has chrome wheels, and in the following shot of Lee opening his front door to Carter, the Corvette has black wheels.
  
  

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