- Crew or equipment visible: The camera crew is clearly visible reflected in the dark sunglasses O'Neil and the rest of the team wear in the beginning of the movie. This is most noticeable in the Blu-ray release of the movie due to the higher resolution video.
- Continuity: Shadow sizes and directions in the desert scenes.
- Continuity: You can see 'Kurt Russell''s shirt is already cut before the "kid" scratches him on the back in the last fight scene.
- Continuity: When Daniel and his team first enter the city, his pendant is tucked under his shirt, but in the next shot out of his shirt, then in the next shot, tucked back into his shirt.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Colonel O'Neil tries to defuse the bomb, Daniel's mouth doesn't move when he asks "How much time do we have left?" and O'Neil's doesn't move when he answers "forty-five seconds."
- Revealing mistakes: In the first attack on the village, after the leader is knocked down by an explosion, a ship swoops down from the sky and the model's cables and guide wires can be seen.
- Continuity: The pace at which the bomb's timer ticks down changes several times.
- Revealing mistakes: When Jackson and O'Neil are brought before Ra and the guards knock them to their knees, the guard that "hits" O'Neil completely misses his knee and he does not fall until the staff is already past his knee.
- Revealing mistakes: When the transport rings are coming down on the last warrior and Ra screams, his fillings are visible.
- Revealing mistakes: When one of the Gliders flies over the city in the first attack, the cables holding it up are clearly visible.
- Continuity: When Jackson first picks up the "dead" Sha'uri, her legs are exposed. A brief moment later, they are covered.
- Continuity: Blood on Anubis's face when he is decapitated by the transport rings.
- Continuity: Cloud patterns changing constantly, and sometimes no clouds at all, between shots during last battle scene.
- Continuity: When O'Neil arms the bomb, he flips the toggle switch up from its downward position. Later, when he tries to disarm the device, the switch is down again and he once more flips it up.
- Revealing mistakes: When the team first exits the pyramid, Jackson presses his hands against the "solid" stone wall as if testing it for stability. The wall can be seen moving when Jackson presses it.
- Revealing mistakes: During the desert battles, crowds of immobile mannequins are visible in the background. (See also the trivia entry about this.)
- Revealing mistakes: When O'Neil kills one of the guards in front of Kasuf, the guard had previously been beating the workers with his staff. Although the staves are shown to be rigid in the battle scenes, here it wiggles and recoils after striking the worker, obviously made of rubber so as not to injure the actor playing the worker.
- Continuity: When Daniel is explaining the six point theory on the white-board, the shape of the cube and the six points vary noticeably between shots.
- Continuity: When Dr. Jackson and company encounter the guards in the pyramid, he is not wearing his glasses, however, in the next shot after the guard shoots at the others outside, we see Dr. Jackson with his glasses on.
- Continuity: When O'Neil is thrown into the watery prison cell, the second-in-command's dog tag jumps about between shots.
- Miscellaneous: John Deihl's character is continually referred to as "Lieutenant Kawalsky", however, his rank insignia is that of a "Lieutenant Colonel". A lieutenant colonel is usually addressed as "Colonel", and never a "lieutenant" since the Lt. Col rank is four steps higher than a lieutenant.
- Continuity: When Daniel Jackson reaches the other end of the stargate for the first time his face is all sweaty. In the next shot his face is completely dry.
- Continuity: Right before the team goes into the Stargate for the first time, Catherine gives her necklace to Daniel. Shortly after, there is a shot of Catherine watching them go, and you can clearly see the necklace still around her neck.
- Revealing mistakes: The three "moons of Abydos" seen above the pyramid are obviously images of Earth's moon, merely re-sized and rotated relative to each other.
- Continuity: The symbol for Orion that doctor Jackson identifies using the newspaper changes. In earlier shots it does not look like the symbol Jackson draws but when he goes over to the cover stone to compare the symbols they suddenly match. (Orion's arm and bow appear to make the symbol easier to recognize).
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Despite the amount of machinery used to activate the gate on Earth, none was needed on Abydos. The Stargate's ring spins like a combination lock. Once the correct symbol is aligned, the mechanism locks it in and the ring is twisted to the next one. All the machinery in the silo was to ensure that no one had to turn the ring by hand.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: It is clear that the cat's mouth does not move the last time the cat meows onscreen.
- Revealing mistakes: When the team first gets to the village from the mine camp, Brown takes a picture of the town. If you look closely, you can see that the shutter on the camera is still closed.
- Anachronisms: In the opening scene, depicting a car from the 1920s, the sound effect of the horn is obviously of a dual-note horn from a modern car.
- Revealing mistakes: The candy bar that Daniel gives to the village leader isn't melted but still crunchy even after hours spent in the desert in his shirt pocket and being dragged through the sand by the yak-like creature.
- Revealing mistakes: When Ra looks out into the desert and states "The caravan is coming", we see the caravan moving in the distance, approaching the two obelisks near the pyramid. The shadow of the obelisks is at about 10 o'clock (with the caravan at 12). The scene then shifts momentarily to seeing the caravan approaching the obelisks from much closer to the obelisks. The shadow of the obelisks now point down, towards 7 o'clock.
- Factual errors: Dr. Jackson at one point refers to the writing as "heiroglyphics," which no self-respecting Egyptologist would ever do. "Heiroglypic" is an adjective. An Egyptologist would call the writing either "heiroglyphs" or "heiroglyphic writing."
- Plot holes: When they first activate the Stargate, Catherine Langford states "this is as far as we have ever been able to get," because they need the last symbol. Why wouldn't they have tried all the remaining symbols, one by one, until they found the last (seventh) one?
- Factual errors: Dr. Jackson tells the team about finding "a destination within any 3-dimensional space, you need 6 reference points." The reference points are constellations. So when they track the probe and Catherine Langford states that the probe is across the known Universe, this would be impossible because the Constellations listed only exist in our Galaxy. But when they send the probe, Catherine claims that it's across the known Universe. That's impossible because the constellations only exist in our galaxy.
- Plot holes: Even though nobody knew what the Stargate was for, they had a system that indicated the probe's molecular deconstruction and a star map.
- Crew or equipment visible: After Jackson is awakened by the desert beast, O'Neill looks out into the desert. You can clearly see the crew and a very large bounce card in the right lens.
- Continuity: During the dial up as the chevrons are locking, the symbols on the computer screens do not match up with what is on the Stargate.
- Continuity: When the probe enters the Stargate room, before even getting closer to the device, the probe control screen shows "molecular deconstruction".
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- Plot holes: SPOILER: When the villagers assist in the Earth group's break for freedom, they seem to have quickly gained an understanding of how sub-machine guns are operated without anyone's help. While the principle of "point and pull the trigger" is pretty obvious and could be quickly discovered, there is the issue of the safety catch, which would have been enabled while the weapons were stored. In addition, it would appear that O'Neil's soldiers stored their weapons with the magazines inserted and the guns cocked - something no soldier would do with a weapon that was being transported.
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