Goofs for
Romeo Must Die (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When entering the garage, Han deactivates the car alarm to find the car (light goes on). Immediately after that the main character triggers the alarm again (lights again). In cheap alarms, this might reactivate the alarm, but in other models, this unlocks the passenger door (and a third activation might open the trunk). Since he in fact entered through the passenger door, this is what happened.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Han Sing exits the prison in Hong Kong, the guard that opens the main gates is carrying an AK-47 rifle without a magazine in it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Han Sing finds a piece of paper that belonged to his brother with addresses on it, it is all folded and crumpled up, but when he shows the paper to Trish it is flat.
  
  

• Errors in geography: The film is supposedly set in Oakland, California. There are a number of indications that this isn't Oakland, including the high-rise apartment buildings typical of Vancouver, BC, but the most obvious are scenes in "Oakland's" waterfront that feature spectacular mountains in the near background. Also pointed out are BC Transit buses and Canadian flags.
  
  
• Continuity: After Trish runs on the truck and kicks the motorcycle fighter, she turns from the force of the kick. In the next shot she is shown falling straight back onto the metal rod.
  
  
• Continuity: The clouds in the sky during the kung fu football scene.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of shaving cream on the man's face at the barber's.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the explosion of the barge. Kai's face is fully illuminated on the both sides of his face which is not possible.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the motorcycle/car chase after Han and Trish find the dead Chinese. The reflection of the camera truck pulling the Merc can be seen in the visor of the motorcyclist.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Han's father shoots himself in the head, the strobe light used to mimic the gun blast can be seen over Han's shoulder.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In some shots the American football that Han is holding is obviously computer generated.
  
  
• Continuity: When Han leaves Trish's place and beats up Maurice and his gang, we see Maurice with a cut that is bleeding on the right side of his lip. Later, when Han is persuaded to play football with Mac and the rest, we see Maurice with a scar on the left side of his lip.
  
  
• Continuity: In the football scene, a scar is initially visible on the right side of Maurice's lips. However, when Maurice tackles Han and gets up, the close-up shot shows the scar on the left side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Han fires the hose at the bodyguards, one of them gets hit, flies through the air, lands on the ground, and then briefly swings back up in the air again, clearly indicating that wires were used.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the camera angle changes to show the back of Maurice's head in the football scene, it is an obvious stand-in, Maurice seems to have lost weight for a few moments.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Han is being tackled by Maurice, and he is flying backwards through the air in slow-motion, you can clearly see that he's wearing protective padding.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Visible safety cable attached to Colin as he falls out of the building.
  
  
• Continuity: Bullet holes on the hood of the car disappear and re-appear during a chase scene.
  
  
• Continuity: Po's Aston Martin is facing the driveway when Kai & Co arrive, but faces the wall when Po leaves.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the end fight when Han is kicked through the lattice, the camera follows him crashing to the ground, it pans too far revealing a second camera covered in a tarp filming the opposite angle.
  
  
• Continuity: The length of Colin's cigarette between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Han first finds the note of the addresses of the waterfront properties, he promptly scrunches the paper. Later, when Trish looks at it, it is once again in perfect condition.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kai presses the coal plate against Han's hands, wires are visible in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trish and Han are standing outside the Sing house after the big fight between Han and Kai the same police officers run past twice.
  
  
• Continuity: In the motorcycle/car chase scene, the right side of the Mercedes (the passenger side where Trish is sitting) crashes into a parked car and the indicator is broken. In the next shot it has repaired itself.
  
  
• Continuity: When Trish and Han are trying to get into the club, the people in the back of the shot appear and reappear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Han follows Trish from the shop to home, and Maurice arrives, he parks the car untidily, but it's neatly against the curb when Han takes it.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the car is being chased by the motorcyclists, one motorcyclist (BMW) accelerates and pulls up to the left side of the car multiple times with the gun in the throttle hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mac brings O'Day the newspaper to show him the article of the store bombing, in the over-the-shoulder shot from Mac's POV, we see O'Day flip the paper over to read the bottom half of the story. In the very next shot, an over-the-shoulder POV from O'Day, the paper is in its original position as it was handed to O'Day.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the Prison scene, the guards talk in Mandarin, All jails and prisons are operated by the Hong Kong Correctional Services and as such the language spoken is Cantonese not Mandarin as spoken by the guards.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hong Kong prisons are managed by the Hong Kong Correctional Services and not by the Hong Kong Police (Officer's in blue) as seen in the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: Prison Guards are seen holding AK47 rifles, this is incorrect as all Hong Kong Law Enforcement Agencies use American or German made weapons.
  
  
• Continuity: After O'Day hits at the golf course meeting, there is no divot. He took out a considerable amount of grass and dirt on his missed shot.
  
  

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