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• Revealing mistakes: All car scenes are obviously filmed with the car on a trailer.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene in the diner, the size of Mr. Blue's cigar.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the beginning diner scene, after Mr. Pink finally puts a dollar in for the tip, they all get up and start to walk away from the table. Nice Guy Eddie leaves his "brick" cell phone on the table.
  
  

• Continuity: Mr. Pink puts the cigarette in his mouth twice when talking to Mr. White.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Blonde first appears during White and Pink's fight, he raises his soda twice in a row to his mouth without removing it after the first time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Pink carjacks the woman, the satchel of diamonds is on the street in front of the door. In the next shot when he opens the door, the bag is gone. There is no time for him to have stepped forward, kneeled and grabbed the bag, stood back up and tossed it into the car.
  
  
• Continuity: Stealer's Wheel "Stuck in the Middle With You" ends while Mr. Blonde is pouring a trail of gas away from the cop. The song is coming from a radio, but it goes silent for the rest of the movie. Mr. Blonde is shot at that point in the film and never touches the radio.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Mr. White and Mr. Pink are talking about Mr. Blonde going "psycho" at the heist, Mr. White says he almost took Mr. Blonde out himself. When the two later confront Mr. Blonde about his antics, Mr. White says to Mr. Pink, "You said yourself you thought about taking him out."
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Blonde comes back with the gas can, the floor behind Nash is already wet.
  
  
• Continuity: Background while Mr. White, Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. Pink, and Mr. Orange are driving to the heist.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mr. Orange is in his apartment and is on the phone to Nice Guy Eddie, he walks over to his window and says he'll be right down. At that moment you can see the top of the outside set piece.
  
  
• Continuity: After Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. White, and Mr. Pink pick up Mr. Orange from his apartment, Nice Guy Eddie comments on Mr. Pink's point in the conversation with "I'll have to go with Pink on this one". The team wasn't given their aliases until the meeting after the car ride.
  
  
• Continuity: During the standoff between White and Pink, the gun in Mr. White's hand switches during shots from his left hand to his right.
  
  
• Continuity: In the fight scene between Mr. Pink and Mr. White the warehouse lighting changes dramatically from shot to shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. White and Mr. Pink take the cop inside the warehouse and beat him, the cop's arms are chained behind his back. in the next shot, his arms are chained before his chest.
  
  
• Continuity: During the commode story when Mr. Orange turns on the hand dryer his hand is in a gun shape horizontally. The camera cuts to on Mr. Orange's left, and his hand is now in a gun shape pointed vertically.
  
  
• Continuity: Mr. Blonde opens his barber blade twice.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Blonde is pouring gasoline on the cop, the cops legs are taped to the chair. When the angle changes you can see his legs kicking up in the air. And then they go back to being taped up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Blonde duct tapes Nash's mouth shut, he tapes right over the bottom half of his ear. At the time when he is about to cut it off the tape is below his ear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Pink is shooting at the cops from behind the car, the fat cop is seen getting shot and falling twice. Once when Mr. Pink first starts shooting and a second time when he is seen shooting at Mr. Pink.
  
  
• Continuity: In Joe's office, when Mr. Blonde stands up for the second time to face Nice Guy Eddie, he stretches his left arm. The next shot shows him with the jacket hanging in his same arm.
  
  
• Continuity: The two ivories behind Joe's desk change repeatedly between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Blonde is putting gasoline on Nash, he raises his left foot. Before and after that we see that both feet are taped to the chair's legs
  
  
• Continuity: After cutting Nash's ear off, Mr. Blonde walks towards the door with the opened barber's blade in his left hand. After he's opened the door he puts the left hand in his pocket and the blade has disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: In the warehouse when Mr. Blonde jumps off the car and takes off his coat he has a cigarette in his mouth. In the close-up shot to his face, the cigarette is gone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in a shop window as Mr. Pink runs along the street.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflected in car window when Mr. White opens the door after Mr. Brown crashed it into the standing car.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Just after Mr. White shoots the cops in the scene "An Orange/White Getaway", there is a close up of Mr. Orange's face. In the reflection of his sunglasses, where there is supposed to be Mr. Brown sitting in a car, instead you see Mr. Brown sitting in a chair.
  
  
• Continuity: When the police are chasing Mr. Pink in the first flashback, they run by all the same stores twice.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Shadow visible behind Cabot's head as he gives out names.
  
  
• Continuity: When firing at the police, the slide on Mr. Pink's pistol locks back, indicating an empty clip, and yet he continues to fire without reloading.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nice Guy Eddie shoots Nash, the muzzle-flashes from the gun and damage to Nash's chest don't appear close enough together.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: During Mr. Orange's close-up during the naming session, the boom mic casts a shadow on Mr. Blue's face.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: During the "Commode" story (set in 1986), Mr. Orange says "I'm trying to watch The Lost Boys (1987)," which wasn't released until 1987. This is not a problem, because this is part of a story that Mr. Orange is telling at some time after 1987.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Near the end, we learn that the cops are waiting for Joe to arrive at the warehouse before they make the bust. Why, then, do the police (presumably a different team) show themselves at the robbery? Because of the gunplay involving civilians.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of blood on Mr. Blonde's sleeve during the "ear scene".
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the camera circles around Mr. Orange in the bathroom, the shadow of the camera falls on the wall.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Stealer's Wheel "Stuck in the Middle With You" was released and hit the charts in April of 1973, not April of 1974 as the radio DJ says.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the crew leaves their tips on the table of the restaurant, Joe returns to the table after paying the tab. He glances at the pile of money and immediately announces that someone did not leave a tip. There is no way he could have determined this from just a quick glance at the pile.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final confrontation between three of the crew in the warehouse, a frontal camera shot shows Nice Guy Eddie pointing a revolver at Mr. White, supposedly ready to shoot him. However, from this angle it is clear that the chambers of the revolver are empty.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Mr. Blonde opens the trunk of his car to reveal his "surprise" to Mr. White and Mr. Pink, he puts his hand on the trunk before unlocking it. When he does, the trunk clearly moves, showing that it was not locked.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. White gives Mr. Pink a cigarette, he lights Mr. Pink's and then proceeds to light his own. However, he does not actually light the cigarette, and a few moments later, he puts a new cigarette in his mouth and actually lights it, without explaining where his original cigarette went.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Mr. Orange is traveling in the car with Nice Guy Eddie, Mr. White and Mr. Pink, and talking about white and black girls, Eddie refers to Steve Buscemi's character as "Pink". It is actually in the following scene where Joe reveals the thieves' nicknames, also Mr. Pink's, for the first time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. Pink is hit by a car a police officer can be seen standing on the intersection. He is not visible in the shots before and after that.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The moment Joe Cabat found out that the heist went bad, he was then sure that Mr. Orange was a undercover cop who set them all up, because Mr. Orange was the only one Joe did not know 100%, just like he said in the movie. Joe Cabat then should also have known that the police knew about the warehouse. So in that case why would Joe still even insist on returning back to the warehouse, if he probably knew more likely the police were near by waiting for him and the rest of the gang.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Mr. Orange shoots Mr. Blonde, when the camera focuses on Mr. Orange after the shooting, you can see a whole bullet roll from behind Mr. Orange instead of only the shell, which is the only part of the bullet that comes out of the gun after firing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: Nice Guy Eddie falls before Mr. White's gun swings at him and goes off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The squibs on Mr. White do not go off at the right time during the final stand-off. The first time Eddie shoots, the squib doesn't go off and no bullet hole appears on Mr. White. The second time he shoots, the first squib goes off. As Mr. White is falling to the ground, the second squib goes off, even though no one shot at him.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: After Mr. Orange is shot, he is driven to the crew's hideout by Mr. White. Although Orange has received a serious stomach wound that bleeds profusely, White does nothing to stop the bleeding after laying him down. In real life, the victim would have been dead in minutes due to such heavy blood loss, yet Orange survives until the end of the movie.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the shootout scene at the end of the film, when Mr White shoots Eddie, the gun is clearly not pointing in his direction, as he barely shifts his aim after he shoots Joe.
  
  

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