Gaffes

When Jackie leaves the fitting room, she leaves the door open. When Max goes to the room, the door is closed.

When Jackie is inside the fitting room and Melanie switches Billingsley bags with her, Melanie's feet appear below the bottom of the fitting room partition between rooms, which does not extend all the way to the floor. Later, when Max goes to retrieve the bag with the $500,000 in it, the fitting room door does extend all the way to the floor. People mistakenly believe Melanie passed the bag under the fitting room door, likely because the shot is very close up, which is not possible.

When Jackie leaves the bag of cash in the fitting room, she leaves it on the edge of the middle cushion; when Max Cherry picks it up, it's on the left cushion instead.

When Ordell and Louis are sitting in the van, the cars parked on the street change a number of times between shots.

While putting the money in her bag in the airplane bathroom, Jackie drops numerous items on the floor. She doesn't pick them up, yet when the camera goes again to an overhead shot, the items on the floor are gone.

Del Amo Fashion Center is listed during the film as the largest indoor shopping center in the world. At the time of production, that distinction belonged to the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The film takes place in 1995, and Max states toward the film's end that he is 56 years old. However, earlier in the film when he meets Jackie for the first time, his ID says that his date of birth is 3/15/1948, which would make him 46-47 years old in 1995.

When Simone is leaving the mall, Max Cherry writes down the license number of her car. The number is 3L60314 - a number, then a letter, then 5 more numbers. This sequence is used in California on Commercial plates found on pick-up trucks and medium and heavy-duty trucks, not privately owned cars.

Even in 1995, to prevent shoplifting, shoppers were not allowed to take bags into the changing room. Jackie takes a huge bag in with her.

When Louis and Melanie meet at Ordell's Apartment, Melanie asks Louis where he was imprisoned, and what was his crime. Louis explains that he was just released from Susanville for bank robbery. The mistake is, Susanville is a State Penitentiary in California, but bank robbery is a Federal crime. Why wasn't Louis imprisoned in a Federal Penitentiary? The jurisdictions don't match.

The first time we see Jackie pointing to the fitting rooms, she uses her right hand. The second time, she uses her left. Quentin Tarantino frequently uses this kind of inconsistency in "replayed" scenes in his films, to show the same scene from many different perspectives.

The photo of Melanie in Japan shows her wearing a qipao, which is a traditional Chinese dress, not Japanese.

There are no prohibitions against wearing Chinese fashions in Japan. She wasn't there on a diplomatic mission and she probably thought that anything at all Asian was appropriate.

When Max meets Ordell at Sheronda's place, Ordell points a 1911 .45 caliber pistol at Max. Throughout that scene, the gun is not cocked. The hammer is lowered making it unready to fire. A 1911 type pistol must be either manually cocked or the slide must be racked before it can be fired. A weapons dealer like Ordell would have known this.

Perhaps he learned the hard way to not have the hammer cocked when his habit seems to be to keep his finger on the trigger. Melanie had told Louis (0:07:40) that Ordell was not such an expert, that he was "Just repeating shit he overheard."

After Ordell is killed in Cherry's office, Cherry tells Nicolette that Ordell has $40,000 in marked bills on him. But Ordell is never seen transferring the bulky wads of money from the shopping bag to his person. Nor does it make sense that he would leave his safe house to go to Cherry's office with Cherry for a confrontation and bring the $40,000 with him.

Cherry says Ordell "ought to have" $40,000, guessing that Ordell was paranoid enough about his money that he'd rather have it with him at all times. He took the money from the bag when the camera wasn't looking. Not everything gets recorded or makes the final edit.

The cigarette of Jackie when she is interrogated by Ray.

Actually - the cigarettes. She's chain smoking. The butt of the first is in the ashtray in front of her. So, if this Goof is about the length of the cigarette, then it's not a Goof. They were different cigarettes.

When Melanie enters the fitting room to swap the bag with Jackie, the camera inside the fitting room shows her feet coming from the right. However later we learn the fitting room used was the last on the right, hence she should have come from the left, not the right.

During the conversation between Melanie and Louis in which they are talking about stealing the money from Jackie and Ordell, director Quentin Tarantino can be heard coughing off screen.

After Ray shoots Ordell and squats over his body his shoes change from Tevas with socks to black leather shoes.

During the trial run Ray confirms that the money is all in the same denomination, then counts 25 bills. He then says that the total comes to fifty thousand.

Set in 1995, the calendar in Jackie's kitchen is for 1997.

The movie is set in 1995 but when Jackie enters the mall a sign on the door says "July 4th, Friday, hours..". July 4 was a Friday in 1997, when the movie was shot.

Ordell's cellular phone (Motorola StarTac) was not available until 1997.

A computer software store advertises 688 Hunter/Killer, not available until 1997.

While set in 1995, the song played in the record store is Foxy Brown's "Holy Matrimony (Letters to the Firm)", released in 1996.

When Jackie puts on The Delfonics record, she puts the needle halfway in the first track, but only after a second or so, the beginning of the song ("Didn't I") is heard.

Cameraman's reflection can be seen in glass window when Jackie and Ordell are shouting on the patio.

Cameraman's reflection can be seen following Jackie into the mall for the money exchange.

In the opening scene listed as "Hermosa Beach", the view through the window shows a bike path in the sand in the distance. Other window scenes looking North show a stone breakwater in the distance. There is no stone breakwater in Hermosa Beach, and the bike path runs along The Strand right next to houses along the beach.

The main plot of the film is that Ordell is under surveillance by the DEA which is why he cannot travel to Mexico to withdraw his money from his bank. The film's narrative then goes on to shoot this down after Ordell manages to kill two different people in the open and even does so feet away from where he picked one of them up from his apartment.

Also travel to Mexico in 1995 didn't require a passport unless the traveler planned to spend months or longer in the country. There was virtually nothing stopping Ordell from driving to Mexico himself, settling his affairs with his accounts and then finding a method to return to the United States (or elsewhere) with his money.

Apparently the DEA was only watching Ordell when the plot required that to happen.

While Jackie and Max are talking in the food court at the mall, Max says that he has been in the bail bond business for 19 years. Later, a box of business cards that say "Max Cherry - 24 Years Service" are visible in a desk drawer.

The film takes place in 1995. Officer Dargus explains that Jackie was first busted in 1985, then says "Cut to 13 years later...," making 1998 the year in which the film would be occurring.

01:18:00 As trained and observant professional, (as Max Cherry appears to be), he would know to never leave a message on Jackie's answering machine asking, "wondering how everything went today with ATF" Especially after Jackie told him Ordell came to her house after she was bailed out, (which is why she needed Max's gun). Thus knowing Ordell could show up and hear she's in collusion with him. AND knowing Jackie is under a major joint LAPD/ATF task force investigation to investigate the witness murdering arms dealer Ordell, Max would be aware Jackie's phone would be tapped and recorded, also tipping their collaboration off to the surveilling task force.

Ordell insists that .45 pistols have become popular because The Killer (Chow Yun-Fat) used a .45. In fact, Yun-Fat Chow wields a 9mm Beretta throughout The Killer (1989). The only .45 that appears anywhere in the movie is held by a Triad.

It makes no sense for Ordell to step in front of Cherry in the last sequence in Cherry's bail bond office. He has been extremely cautious and suspicious of Jackie and Cherry and threatened Cherry to kill him immediately if anything untoward occurred in the office. By stepping toward Jackie, he needlessly turns his back on Cherry instead of using him as a human shield.