10 Action Movie Mistakes You Can’t Unsee

7. Dwayne Johnson's Magic Goatee - Fast & Furious 6

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The fact that most of the Fast and the Furious movies are as visually coherent as they are is, frankly, a damn miracle, and while director Justin Lin absolutely delivered the action-packed goods on the sixth movie, he couldn't stop one outrageous facial hair-related mistake slipping through the cracks.

Mid-way through the movie, Hobbs' (Dwayne Johnson) goatee randomly disappears for an entire scene, only to re-appear without explanation.

Considering that the film takes place over a relatively concentrated period of time, there's no way to reasonably explain this within the world of the movie - beyond Luke "flexes out of a cast" Hobbs being so damn manly he had a shave and it grew back five minutes later, of course.

Going by Occam's razor, it's reasonable to assume that the sequence where Hobbs is sans-goatee was a reshoot filmed after Dwayne Johnson shaved his facial hair for another role.

Even so, with a $250 million budget in play you'd think that Universal might've spent a few bucks giving Hobbs a digital goatee, right?

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