The Fast and the Furious

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The Fast and the Furious Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): After leaving the parking garage where he has hidden his car, Dominick is spotted by a single police car and followed/chased. During the pursuit, the police car changes (as evidenced by the light bar on the top) between shots.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the racers are on their way to the first race, there is an aerial shot of above the street, and in the right side of the screen a lighting tower is visibly illuminating the street.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the last race, something in Dom's engine blows up. Yet it leaves smoke spewing out the back in some shots. When the two cars jump the track, in some shots the smoke is gone. Yet when Dom crashes the car at the very end, the car is seen smoking again.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In the scene with the cars driving under the truck (trailer), the trailer switches from a standard tandem configuration to an obviously rigged (raised) single axle trailer.
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Brian is testing the top speed of his Eclipse at the beginning of the film, he appears to have 7 forward gears. After seeing him shift into first before starting, you can count 6 more up-shifts after, either by seeing him change gear or by hearing it.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the first hijacking when the car goes under the trailer there is only one trailer axle. When it goes to a wider angle shot, the trailer is back to having two axles. Also that trailer type has two support beams running down the center of the trailer from front to back. In this scene they are missing.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After the first race, it is acknowledged that Brian's Eclipse has blown its piston rings and requires the engine taking apart for repair, also some other kind of damage must have occurred (the manifold, according to his in-car laptop) that caused the floor-pan to fall through. This however doesn't affect Brian being able to evade the police and escape at a reasonable speed immediately after.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When the agents are debating whether Mia is clouding the opinion of Brian, the dialogue is, "Hey, I don't blame you. I get off on her surveillance photos too." But he is clearly dubbed over saying, "Hey, I don't blame you. I beat off to her surveillance photos too.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The windshield wipers are randomly on, when the Supra is jumping the tracks in the last race.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When one of the bikers comes off the road, Toretto goes to look over the ridge at the him and we see a bandage on his nose, which is not there in previous or subsequent shots.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In one aerial shot after the first race when the police are driving onto the street, you can see police cars waiting for their cues on the side streets. They have their parking lights on at first and then turn on their lights and light bars when they begin driving into the racer traffic.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Officer Brian O'Conner chases one of the motorcyclists over a hill, the ramps used to lift the car off the ground are visible.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Brian is driving up to Dom's store to get a tuna sandwich from Mia the Ford emblem on the grill of his red pickup is clearly missing. When he drives away after Dom tells him to leave, the Ford emblem appears.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the last race scene with the Supra on the LA streets chasing the dirtbikes during the day, the windshield is clearly cut out to eliminate glare in some shots, while in others, the entire windshield is present. The cutout takes the shape of the area covered by the wiper blades. In the same scene, the windshield is also visibly clean as well as visibly dirty.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the police car speeds past Dom when he is walking down the street, it is a Crown Voictoria. When the car turns around, it is a Chevy Caprice.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Edwin is looking at Brian's car before the first race, he is heard to say, "He's got enough NOS in there to blow himself up, period," but he appears to be saying something else.
Movie Goof (miscellaneous): As Brian is driving up to the gathering before the first race, you can clearly see a hose hanging below his Eclipse. Afterwards, the hose is absent.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During the first race, the cars pass by the same background more than once.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Supra is chasing the dirt bikes it switches from clean to very dirty many times between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Dom hides his car in the empty building and begins walking down the sidewalk, the cop car that passes him is a Ford Crown Victoria. But when we see it again, it is a Chevrolet Caprice.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Close-up shot of Charger's engine throttle, the sound of the engine revs up and down doesn't match the throttle positions.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After the window is pulled out at the beginning of the movie, the weather stripping is visible under the windshield wiper. In the next shot it is gone.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Mia notices that Brian has arrived at the party with Dominic, the cameraman's elbow can be seen in the mirror just before the shirt covers the camera.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The police scanner mounted on the dash on one of the "lookout" cars during the street race is an early-'80s Radio Shack Patrolman scanner which is not capable of receiving the current 800mhz digital trunking system currently used by L.A.P.D. and L.A. County Sheriff.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In race wars when Jesse is filmed in close-up, you can see that he is actually driving a coupe (check the right rear side mirror). Also, the dashboard is not the Jetta's.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Right after the first race when Brian loses his car, Dom says "Granny shiftin' and not double clutching like you should." Double clutching takes precious time to do, time that you do not have during a drag race especially in a Mitsubishi Eclipse. The only time to double clutch that car would be in a road course race to save the brakes coming in fast into a corner.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Through out the Movie, characters are seen using "NOS" towards the end of the race when in reality, nitrous oxide is used from the very beginning of the race.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the last scene when Dom and Brian drag race, the butterflies on the blower scoop close when he revs up the motor, when they would really open, since they are allow air to enter the blower.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): As the Charger is flying through the air towards the end of the movie, the stuntman and his helmet are visible for a few seconds.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When everyone is gathered around Brian's car following the first race, you can see a guy behind Dominic with a black FUBU shirt on and spiky hair, then in the next shot the same guy is behind Brian.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The 1/4 mile race at the end takes the two "ten second" cars way more than 10 seconds to run. On top of that, in actuality, rail crossing bars lower long before the train is visible. If this was a ten second race, that means the rail bars dropped 2-3 seconds before the train appeared.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): Just before the final race between Dom and Brian, as the view comes up to Dom, the camera, and camera man (wearing a red shirt) are reflected in the Charger's side-view mirror.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Whenever Brian is driving the eclipse after the police chase, you can hear the car shifting but Brian's hand remains on the steering wheel.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the end of the film when Toretto realises Brian's a cop while he's on the phone, the phone changes hands with the change of one shot.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): Back at Dom's house after the first race. Just after Mia breaks Brian away from Vince, Leon says, "Aw, come on Mia, we were just about to get along", Jesse can then be heard adding "Yeah". However, his mouth does not move.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Dom is trying to rescue Vince from the truck, you can see a stuntman's arms driving the car in a few of the rear shots due to the long sleeve black shirt he is wearing compared to the short sleeve white shirt that Dom is wearing.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Toward the beginning of the movie, Brian is pulled over by an unmarked black police car, a 1992 Ford Crown Victoria. When the stop is first being made, the Crown Victoria is a modified one that does not have a front grille with a blue Ford Oval on it. As Paul gets out of his car, the Crown Victoria is an unmodified one, with the grille and Ford oval on the front. So between shots, the police car changes.
Movie Goof (miscellaneous): At the beginning, when Brian's Eclipse is first shown, as he is driving you can see he always hold the steering wheel with his right hand and is always shifting with his right hand.
Movie Goof (miscellaneous): When Brian spins his Eclipse out while testing it in the stadium parking lot. You can clearly see that the reverse lights are on while the car is spinning. Indicating that they were doing reverse donuts to film the shot.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the last race between Dom and Brian, Dom is heard/seen shifting 7 or 8 times.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Brian gets out of the car to check Tran after shooting him off his bike, he clearly slams the door of his Supra as he runs over to him, but when he returns to the car, the door is open.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the officers are in the house and Brain pushes the detective. He is on the left side of the FBI agent. When they swap to show it from the other side, the agent falls past the FBI agent on his right side.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Paul Walker jumps onto the truck to save the guy, you can very clearly see the safety harness strapped to his back in several shots.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the last race when the Charger goes into the big wheelstand he is smoking the rear tires. This can not happen since smoking tires means the loss of traction and a wheelstand means no loss of traction.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In Letty's race at Race Wars, her seats change from black racing seats, to light gray stock seats, then back to racing seats
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Paul and Vin first get to the party near the beginning of the movie, Vin hands Paul a drink, Paul immediatley starts to clean the top with his shirt, a few seconds later we see him again start to clean the bottle.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Many of the cars have roll cages which change colors between shots.
Movie Goof (plot holes): Towards the end of the film, when Brian and Mia are trying to stop Dom and co from robbing the armed trucker, Mia gives the Nextel operator Dom's cell number over Brian's cell phone. Since both Brian and Dom have active cell phones, why didn't they use one of them to call one of their friends when the Tran brothers blew up Brian's car after the first race?
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): After race wars, Brian returns to town and pulls his car into a driveway. His stuntman is clearly recognizable as the driver in this shot as his hairline is a good 2 or 3 inches further back than Paul Walker's.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The Eclipse moves around between shots before being destroyed.