Goofs for
Hancock (2008) More at IMDb Pro »

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In one scene, the TV news announcer states that Hancock has been taken to "Los Angeles General Hospital" but in the following scene, there is an exterior shot of the hospital with the sign "Mercy General Hospital".
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of spaghetti and meatballs in the bowl, when Hancock first arrives at Ray's house and is invited for diner, changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene when an SUV is fleeing the police it turns a corner and crashes into the side of a car. In the next scene the side of the SUV has no damage.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Hancock picks up the police cruiser to protect the downed female officer, it can be seen that the car has no transmission or prop-shaft, despite having supposedly just been driven to the heist.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the film, during the car chase when Hancock is in back of the suspect's car and breaks the bottle, the next shot has him holding a different looking, very obviously fake broken bottle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray is waiting in traffic on the train tracks, he is talking to his wife on the cell phone, holding it up to his left ear. He ends the conversation. But in a later long shot, the phone is still being held up to his left ear.
  
  
• Continuity: After impaling the SUV on the tower, Hancock is drinking in a bar. Close shots show him holding a bottle of beer in his left hand whereas long shots show the bottle in his right hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hancock is talking to Mary whilst eating a banana, the banana appears eaten in one shot and then back to uneaten in the next.
  
  
• Continuity: After Mary gets out of Hancock's trailer, the top of some car is seen and Mary gets into it. But in the next shot they are standing in front of each other and there's no car, as it wasn't there when Mary came.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Mary is in the hospital bed, just after being shot, the blood stain on her shirt changes in between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Near the end of the movie when Mary is 'dying', the monitor has a label at the top of the screen that says 'leads off' showing that the monitor isn't actually hooked up.
  
  

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