10 Action Movie Mistakes You Can’t Unsee
6. The Reverse Waterfall - Anaconda
Editing mistakes related to basic continuity are a dime a dozen, but those which literally defy the laws of physics? A little less so.
And so we come to the cult fave creature feature Anaconda, which rolls out an all-time WTF mistake you'll never be able to forget. In the third act, as Terri (Jennifer Lopez) is tending to a wounded Dr. Cale (Eric Stoltz), we cut to an exterior shot of the boat sailing downriver past a waterfall.
Except, uh, the waterfall is flowing backwards.
Evidently this is because the shot is being played in reverse for whatever reason - perhaps the filmmakers forgot to capture footage of the boat leaving the area and simply hoped that audiences wouldn't notice a reversed shot.
But something as flagrantly weird as water sucking up out of the river and levitating up the waterfall draws attention to itself pretty damn easily, and so there's a chance you might've already spotted this one yourself.
Given that this mistake could be rectified in about 10 minutes by anyone with a semi-decent grasp of Adobe Premiere, it's absolutely hilarious that it made it into a $45 million Hollywood blockbuster.