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Taxi (2004/I)

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• When the two silver convertibles are racing alongside the taxi on the freeway, the car on the driver side has its rear windows up in one shot but not in others.
  
  
• As the blue BMW is waiting during the last bank robbery, a police car passes by to scope the scene. The cop car alternates between being a 1995-1997 Ford Crown Vic and a 1998-2004 Ford Crown Vic between shots.
  
  
• When Washburn is explaining to the Cubans what part of Cuba he is from, the door behind one of the Cubans is alternately open/closed between shots.
  
  

• During the first chase, Washburn goes from wearing a leather jacket to the gray sweatshirt jacket he sports later on in the film, then back to the leather jacket again.
  
  
• When Washburn reaches to grab his gun while it is on the backseat of the taxi, his butt gets in Belle's way. However, in one shot of Washburn's side during this scene, we see his butt sticking out the window, but Washburn never moved.
  
  
• In several scenes, people turn their steering wheels without the cars responding to it.
  
  
• In the opening sequence with the bicycle, palm trees are visible. The movie is set in New York City.
  
  
• When the New Jersey license plates are revealed, there are no registration stickers on the plates, yet in a following scene, the registration sticker is on the upper right corner of the plate.
  
  
• The front license plate on the taxi is clearly an NY plate, but yet at the bridge gap scene the rear plate is New Jersey.
  
  
• When Washburn reaches to grab his gun while it is on the backseat of the taxi and shoots out the window, he returns to the front seat, removes and replaces the clip from the gun, then chambers a round but there was already a round in the chamber from the shoot out of the window.
  
  
• After the second bank robbery, while the women are modifying their vehicle, they are clearly wearing black, flat, men's-style shoes. However, when they pull of their suits only a few moments later, the women are suddenly wearing high heeled sandals.
  
  
• When Washburn races to get Belle to the hospital Marta is at first sitting behind the driver's seat. However, in the next shot she is seated behind the passenger's seat and Belle is seated behind the driver.
  
  
• When the captain shows Washburn the newspaper, it features the mugshot with the fake mustache on, but after crashing, he took it off and threw it on the floor.
  
  
• Obvious thinner stunt double in opening bike sequence.
  
  
• When Jesse melts Washburn's badge, when Washburn is banging on the door, his lips don't match what he is saying.
  
  
• When Lieutenant Robbins is asking Belle for her license, her hand alternates from being on her face to off her face, between shots.
  
  
• In the final chase scene, when the convertible cars jump the gap in the freeway, the gap between the expressway seems huge as the cars jump the gap, but as the shot goes forward and the cars land and skid to a stop on the platform, the gap no longer seems as far apart.
  
  
• When Washburn and and Belle are making the transaction for the girl and the money, in one shot Washburns's door is locked, and another shot it is unlocked.
  
  
• When Belle and Washburn are at his mom's house, she says the words "Jungle Fever" thinking that Washburn and Belle were together. If you look closely at Jimmy Fallon's mouth, you can see him mouthing the words exactly as his mother says it.
  
  
• During the last car chase, the cab has the exhaust on the top of the hood, but during the chase, it does not have the exhaust on the top of the hood.
  
  
• During the exterior driving scenes, the induction plates on the air intake do not move when the engine is accelerated and the car is speeding up. The plates should open up to allow in more air every time the gas pedal is pushed as it is mechanically linked to the pedal.
  
  
• When Washburn crashes the first car, he pounds on the steering wheel. This action triggers inflation of the airbag. The sensor for the airbag is in the front bumper, which was undamaged as the car ran backwards into the store. Thus, pounding on the steering wheel would not fire off the airbag.
  
  
• When Belle runs over and knocks down the fire hydrant, water squirts straight up out of the top of the air intake scoop. This would be physically impossible as the water would have to go through the engine first. Additionally, there is no opening on the top of the induction scoop, and any water in the intake would shoot out of the front, not out of the top.
  
  
• The Lieutenant takes Washburn's driver's license first, and later takes Belle's license. A police officer does not have the power to "take a driver's license", as only a judge can do this in accordance with the law.
  
  
• The Lieutenat tells Washburn that he is "Not suspended, but fired". While a superior officer has the ability to remove an officer from service and suspend, they cannot summarily fire the officer. Firing an officer involves a formal hearing before termination can take place.
  
  
• Right before Jimmy Fallon exits the bus and puts on the fake mustache, there is a tall short-haired blonde woman in an army green jacket walking with a large bag. In the next shot from above, she does not appear to have this bag as she goes around the corner.
  
  
• In the Laughing Gas scene Washburn opens the valve on a tank of Nitrous Oxide saying that they can’t fire at them because the "flammable" gas will explode. However Nitrous Oxide is not flammable nor will it explode.
  
  
• Near the beginning when Belle gets in her taxi for the first time, she turns her taxi light on, then it cuts to a different view of the car where the light is no longer on, she buckles up, starts the car, and flips the light on again.
  
  

• SPOILER. When the robbers get trapped on the freeway segment, one of the robbers fires at Belle, Washburn and the Lieutenant. Two of the rounds hit the cab's windshield and leave definite holes. Shortly thereafter, as Washburn is driving Belle to the hospital, the bullet holes in the windshield disappear and reappear depending on the shot.
  
  

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