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• Continuity: Pappas' sunglasses on the dashboard as he watches Utah on the beach.
  
  
• Continuity: Distance from Utah to the water when he is tackled by Bodhi.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Night surfing scenes obviously filmed during the day.
  
  

• Continuity: Gun switches from Johnny's left hand to right after jumping on Bodhi's back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When being shown to Utah, the dead off-duty policeman, shot during robbery, moves.
  
  
• Continuity: Utah gets punched in the face and then the surfer who punched him cuts his board's leash in two. When he gets out of water the leash is not cut anymore.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny tackled Bohdi at the gas station they both landed in the fire, when Johnny turned on the ground you could see black burn marks on the back of his shirt. A few moments later the back of Johnny's shirt was as good as new with no burn mark's on it.
  
  
• Factual errors: There are numerous factual errors in the representation of skydiving (and some inevitable continuity errors during the jumps).
  
  
• Continuity: When the FBI raids the house, Utah jumps forward to tackle the guy, and they go sideways out the window.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final skydiving scene, Utah jumps from the plane without any goggles. During the dive, goggles can be visibly seen in certain shots while disappearing during close-ups.
  
  
• Factual errors: While staking out the bank, Angelo (Gary Busey) reads the newspaper and makes a comment to the effect of, "That Calvin and Hobbes sure are funny!" However, it is evident that he is reading the Los Angeles Daily News, which did not carry Calvin and Hobbes.
  
  
• Continuity: Utah tackles Bohdi in the surf. However, as soon as the others run up, Bodhi appears dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end, when Utah jumps out of the plane to get Bodhi, there are no more parachutes left in the plane. But a parachute backpack is visible on Utah's back as he falls through the air.
  
  
• Continuity: Johnny gets his "57 Chevy" surfboard broken at Latigo beach during the fight with Warchild and his crew. Later in the movie when he remembers about the meeting with some new clients, he is carrying the same board in perfect condition.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bank heist, Bodhi comforts Jimmy Carter/Grommet after he's been shot in the neck. The first close-up of Grommet shows his entire lower face covered in blood. When we see him again moments later, there's a tiny streak of blood on the side of his face.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the first skydiving scene, the plane takes off from Santa Monica California but the jump is clearly over lake Powell Utah nearly 400 miles away.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The video footage of Rosie holding Tyler captive is very shaky, yet the camera is steady when he shows himself holding it in the mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: When Utah and Bodhi are surfing together at night, they surf towards their left as the wave is breaking. In the next shot they are moving towards their right, in an area of the wave that has already broken.
  
  
• Continuity: When Johnny throws away his badge after leaving Bohdi at the beach during "possibly the worst storm in Australia's history" the sky behind him is blue.
  
  
• Continuity: Amount of blood on Angelo's back after being shot in the airport scene.
  
  
• Continuity: After Tyler saves Utah from drowning, as she gets back into the water, Utah yells out his name and when she replies who cares her lips don't match
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bodih and Utah are in the water at night, Bodih's lips don't match what he's saying.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the raid on the house, Agent Utah hides in a bathroom were a naked surfer girl attacks him. She knees him in the groin but her knee is clearly seen going up outside his thighs instead of in between them. It's a poorly-staged choreograph.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the gas station, before Bohdi lights the getaway car on fire, he soaks the gas station attendant with gasoline from a gasoline hose and then tells him to go away. When the attendant is filmed running away he is completely dry.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bells beach is in Victoria Australia. At the end of the movie, a news voice over mentions the Cyclone moving in over Bells Beach. Cyclones do not travel any where even close to that far south.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the fight scene at the burning gas station, when Johnny Utah jumps off the car into Bodhi it is clear that it is a stunt double.
  
  
• Factual errors: Utah is seen crossing a railway line at Torquay Bells Beach. No railway has ever been built to Torquay or Bells Beach.
  
  
• Continuity: After the foot chase Johnny hurts his knee and is later shown with it strapped and he is unable to stand on properly on it. After the first skydive he gets into the back of a van in a crouching position, but shows no discomfort, despite not being able to stand on the knee only a few hours earlier.
  
  
• Factual errors: The night of the first robbery where they went to 'work the drop car'. Pappas said it was 7:30pm and it was very dark. If they only had 1 month left to catch the robbers before the end of summer that would make it late August, early September. Day Light Saving Time would be in effect and it would still be light outside.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Warchild stands by the window, Utah comes running in from the adjacent room and tackles him through it. If you look carefully, you can see him actually sitting in a crouching position for a few seconds before his cue to come running in.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bodhi shows Jonny the 'kidnap' tape in the back of the van, the monitor is a small, approx 5 inch portable device with dials down the right-hand side and the VCR underneath. However, when they exit the van and we can see inside, the monitor is now a normal 12 inch portable TV with no dials and the VCR appears to be on top of the TV.
  
  
• Continuity: As Utah is talking to Bodhi on Bells Beach, his wet hair is plastered across his forehead. As the shot changes to a different angle and in mid-dialogue, Utah's hair is now off of his forehead.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the final skydiving scene of the film, Bodhi tells the pilot to climb to an altitude of 4,000ft to get his injured buddy, Roach, to a "safe jump altitude". The average free fall takes 50 to 60 seconds from roughly 13,000ft. 4,000 ft is still considered a safe jumping altitude but would require immediate deployment of the parachute, also known as a "hop and pop". It would take roughly 45 seconds to hit the ground from 4,000ft. 10 second for the first 1,000 ft and 5.5 seconds for every additional 1,000 ft.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It's not impossible to communicate by voice during free-fall. It's extremely difficult to hear, but if you're close enough to the other skydiver, it's possible.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first skydiving scene, they are boarding and taking off in a DC-3 (or something similar). Later, when they exit and there is a shot up at the belly of the plane it is a Queen Air, Super Otter or a similar twin turbine silver/blue plane. That is also the same plane seen on the tarmac after they land.
  
  
• Continuity: Johnny's surfboard was broken in the fight with Warchild and he has to borrow Bodi's board for the night surf. Later, when Johnny realizes that Bodi and his crew are the bank robbers, Johnny's carrying the same pink surfboard that was broken in the fight.
  
  
• Continuity: The Ex-Presidents are in and out in 90 seconds according to Pappas. Bohdi backs this up when he asks Johnny for 90 seconds of his life. However, when Pappas and Utah stake out the one bank where the chase ensues, the Ex-Presidents are in and out in 44 seconds.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Just before Tyler interrupts Johnny Utah's introductory cover story, he says, "I went to law school - I got a football scholarship!" Law schools don't give football scholarships.
  
  
• Continuity: After Utah drops and injures his knee Bodhi climbs a fence to get out of the aqueduct. There is barbed-wire at the top of the fence until Bodhi gets to the top and climbs out, at which time there is nothing more than a standard chain-link fence.
  
  
• Continuity: At the party at Bodhi's house, it is dark outside. The group drives to the beach and leaves their headlights on to light up the totally dark beach. But as the group is surfing, the lighting appears to be late afternoon as the sky still has blue in it. Following the surfing scene, the sky is black again.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: At the end of the movie on the airfield, a body pack (bloodpack etc.), can clearly be seen under Pappas' shirt when he gets shot in the back.
  
  

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