When Alonzo's car is wrecked, it hits two cars - one in the rear and one head on. When he is seen later driving the same car, it is completely repaired.
When Alonzo is trying to escape the Russians, he backs his car into the white Suv. The force of the impact knocks out the headlights on Alonzo's car, but in every shot after, they're still on.
When Jake jumps on a balcony near the end of the movie, there is already a gun on the balcony, yet Jake didn't drop the gun until a few seconds later.
When Alonzo is pointing his dual Smith and Wessons at the crack addicts after the attempted rape, in alternating shots the safety levers are sometimes in the 'safe' position and sometimes in the 'fire' position.
On the roof top, Alozno throws Jake through a window. In the reverse shot, the glass has disappeared from the upper unbroken section of the window. When Alonzo goes back to the window a few moments later he knocks off bits of glass that reappeared.
After stealing Sandman's money, three bullets are fired through the back window of the Monte Carlo as Jake and Alonzo drive off. The first bullet would have already destroyed the whole window. It would have broken into thousand little pieces.
When Sara's character serves Jake her cooking, she describes it as "El Salvadorian food," even though in both English and Spanish you drop the El when describing something or someone from El Salvador and say Salvadoran, or in Spanish, Salvadoreño.
In the final scene when Jake pulls into the driveway, a car is visible through his rear window. As he gets out, the other car's door opens and someone begins to exit, yet when Jake is outside no more of this person is seen. This scene was trimmed to remove a confrontation between Jake and the "Three Wise Men" seen earlier in the movie. However, the scene was not re-shot, leaving the "menacing" moment of a mysterious person getting out of a car unexplained.
After the shootout sequence with the gang members in the LA neighborhood, Jake and Alonzo drive fast to get away. They stop sometime soon after on a highway. When both exit the vehicle, the Monte Carlo is still running, as can be seen from the exhaust pipe which emits smoke. When they are done arguing, Alonzo and Jake get back into the vehicle. Alonzo starts the vehicle although in the previous scene, it was left running.
It's over 20 years old and has a carburetor. It stalled.
It's over 20 years old and has a carburetor. It stalled.
When Jake and Alonzo chases Blue into the wig shop, Alonzo says a phrase in a foreign language, the phrase that said is complete gibberish. Even though it doesn't resemble any phrase in any Asian language that would suit the context of that situation, Jake wouldn't know the difference and their badges would be enough for the store owner to acknowledge their presence and cooperate with them as she immediately does.
When the crew arrives at Roger's house and start digging for his retirement money you can tell it took some time because they show several of Alonzo's cigarettes he smoked while waiting. But, when they set up the shooting to kill Roger they make it seem like they had just entered. They never would have had time to shoot Roger and dig up his money before the ambulance showed up if it really happened that way.
They didn't have to have killed Roger, radioed it in and dug up the money in that order *if* somebody had been there before them and dug it up. This explains why Roger opened fire on the breaching team- he thought the somebodies were coming back.
They didn't have to have killed Roger, radioed it in and dug up the money in that order *if* somebody had been there before them and dug it up. This explains why Roger opened fire on the breaching team- he thought the somebodies were coming back.
Doug concludes his story by saying the judge declared the man insane because he supposedly ate his own feces. Even though in reality its not that quick and simple, Doug was only simplifying the story for them.
After stealing Sandman's money, three bullets are fired through the back window of the Monte Carlo as Jake and Alonzo drive off. At the angle they were fired, all three bullets would have exited the car through the windshield or would be driven through the driver and/or passenger seats, yet all three bullets magically disappear without striking anything once they go through the back window.
When driving the Monte Carlo, the transmission shifter is in "P" (parking) position.
After stealing Roger's money and killing him, Alonzo tells his team that they set it up to look as though they stormed the house and Roger fired on them and they fired back in retaliation. To support this story Alonzo shoots Jeff twice. Once on the left (does not pierce his armor) and once on the right (which pierces his armor). A few minutes later, Jeff is shown being taken to the ambulance on a stretcher holding blood stained mesh and dressing on his left side, but in fact it was the bullet on the right that had pierced his armor and injured him.
When Alonzo(Denzel Washington) is busting Blue(Snoop Dogg), he starts to empty out the bullets from the magazine of the gun, but after he flips out the second bullet and you see his hand you can see it is the last bullet left in the clip, but he flips out two more bullets afterwards. Also if you watch closely after he flips out the fourth bullet from the magazine the shot shows there are no more bullets, but after it jumps to a new angle there is suddenly another bullet in the magazine under his thumb.
Two different designs of police badges are used in the movie. On close
-up shots, where the badges are clearly visible, a generic imitation of the LAPD badge is used (most notable with the image of Los Angeles City Hall omitted). On all other shots, where the badge is seen from farther away, a badge design more closer to the real LAPD badge is used.
While driving away from Sandman's, Alonzo reaches out the window to fire another shot at the gangsters but the slide is locked back, meaning the gun is out of bullets, however a shot is still heard.
When Alonzo takes off his glasses in the cafe, they jump from hand to hand.
When Alonzo meets with "LAPD's finest", to get the 'green light' to cash-in on Roger, Alonzo asks '"who's driving", to be told "I am. Red Mercedes". Alonzo then leaves the restaurant and puts the money in a Silver vehicle.
After Alonzo steals the money from Sandman's wife and, during the subsequent shootout between Alonzo and the resident's gang members, you see the gang members run after Alonzo's car while firing their handguns. You'll notice the gangsters, who are wearing their baggy pants in they typical gangster fashion (loose and low, around their buttocks, with their underwear exposed), are running and their pants are not falling down. In reality, all the boys were wearing belts. Even without a belt, one learns to adapt to running to or from the wrong situations.
The money shown when Roger's hidden stash is found under the kitchen is made up entirely of $50 bills, but the picture on the bills is not President Grant, who appears on all $50 bills. Also, each of the bundles has a stamp in the upper right quadrant which reads, "For Motion Picture Use Only".
At around 1:45 of the movie, when Jake falls on the hood of Alonzo's car, it is obviously a stunt man resembling Hawke that falls on the hood while another stunt man resembling Washington is driving the car. The man on the hood in subsequent quick cuts alternates between Hawke and the stunt man.
When Jake Hoyt crawls out of the window (during his pursuit of Alonzo), a small stage light is visible on a stand, aimed at the background.
Before they kill Roger, the corrupt police officers take a chainsaw to his floor to get the money, having to dig deep to reach it. How are they going to explain that gigantic hole in the kitchen floor away to investigators?
About an hour into the movie, in the scene with all the cop big-shots, a boom mic is visible overhead.