Continuity
The vigilante drives a 1977 Firebird, which soon turns into a 1979 Firebird.
Kurgan drives a Chevrolet Impala which switches to a Dart.
Connor and Kurgan fight their final battle on a flat rooftop. After they fall through the skylight, the room they are in clearly has a sloped roof.
Brenda is on the roof during the final fight scene and when the Kurgan and McLeod fall through the roof, Brenda is still on the roof. The next moment she is in the same room, despite clearly not falling through the roof.
The flap on the torn-open roof of the green car Kurgan steals, swaps sides between shots.
Brenda's purse (which she left on the desk) moves between shots when she returns to the office to sneak a look at the file.
When Connor enters the bar and meets Brenda his position and the amount of drink in the glass changes between shots.
While Lieutenant Moran visits the injured guy in the hospital the right blue curtain in the sick-room changes position between shots.
When the Highlander is in the sword duel in 1783, before he is stabbed the second time, his opponent flips his rapier out of his hand. As he falls to the ground and gets back up, his rapier is back in his hand.
During the final fight between Kurgan and MacLeod, Kurgan kicks MacLeod's sword behind and away from him. There are a couple of close shots, and when they cut back to the wide shot (same angle) MacLeod's sword in seen on the ground in the forefront. The cycle repeats twice - another set of close shots, then a wide shot with no sword, close shots, followed by another wide shot that includes the sword.
When the Kurgan is speeding to the Silvercup building after kidnapping Brenda, the Cadillac he is driving smashes into another car, severely damaging the right front end. Yet, for the remainder of the scene, the Cadillac is shown with the entire front end still intact.
Immediately after Ramirez slices the Kurgan's throat in their fight in the castle there is no blood on Ramirez’ sword.
‘Revealing’ mistakes
Obvious wires suspending MacLeod as he receives The Prize.
When Connor decapitates Kurgan the Quickening begins with the large windows behind him blowing out of their frames. When this occurs you can clearly see the primer cord encased in the windows igniting just as the glass shatters.
Connor conceals his Katana inside his trenchcoat, yet he us able to move around, sit and even remove the coat all without showing any sign of the concealed sword.
Crew or equipment visable
During the kidnap 'chicken run' scene when Kurgen is driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic the car accidentally collides with an oncoming vehicle as they both swerve in the same direction. The camera truck can be seen to slow and camera operator/director/crew member can be seen to rise up a little more and look back.
During the scene when Kurgen kidnaps Brenda and plays chicken with cars the camera van can be seen driving parallel to their racing car. It is on the far right of the shot and is driving with it's hazard/emergency lights flashing. A member of the crew can be seen standing out of the roof of the vehicle and on the right of the vehicle (left in shot) you can clearly make out the camera. Check out 1h 38m 27s onwards to find this.
When the Kurgan cuts down the Silvercup sign, there are several shots of Brenda where her safety line is clearly visible.
Factual errors
The wrestling match shown is supposed to take place at Madison Square Garden. That promotion - the AWA based out of Minneapolis, MN never had an event take place in NYC. The WWF were the only promotion running shows at MSG.
Newspaper stand in "New York" displaying "Have You Seen This Man" headline is shot in front of the Sheraton Centre, which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Brenda uses a metal detector to find particles of sword in reinforced concrete. This cannot work as the signal from the metal in the reinforcement bars would swamp the signal generated by the sword particles
We see bagpipes with three drones; the long third drone was added after 1700.
The Bagpipes seen in the early part of the film are the wrong style. These are 'Regulation' pattern pipes, which only came into being about 1850, pipes from the time frame of the movie should be 'Chalice' pattern, ie, the top of the drone should look like a wine glass.
Ramirez calls himself the chief metallurgist to King Charles V of Spain. However, Charles V was his not his official title in Spain, that was his title as Holy Roman Emperor. It was King Charles I of Spain.
Others……………
The Sword that Connor uses (the one he got from Ramirez) has a screw, fastening the handle to the blade.
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