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• Continuity: Johnny C takes his vest off, but it is back on again later momentarily.
  
  
• Continuity: The hand pierced by the spike heals instantly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lee is in the vault copying files, the digital clock on the wall goes back in time one minute on two occasions (10:24 to 10:23 and 10:25 to 10:24).
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When trapped by the glass door in the weapons building, Kruger stops firing because the bullets are ineffective, not because he has run out. Therefore, a later shot at the sprinkler system without reloading is reasonable.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kruger and DeGuerin are divided between the glass wall, DeGuerin speaks to Kruger through the wall and can be heard easily, but Kruger's loud yell afterward was almost undetectable on the other side.
  
  
• Continuity: Lee's mini-cam switches sides as she walks down the hallway.
  
  
• Continuity: The windshield of the plane repairs itself after landing.
  
  
• Continuity: The back window of the van repairs itself after it is shot out.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The mini-cam image of Lee in a mirror is not reversed as a mirror image would be.
  
  
• Continuity: Kruger's gloves are free of blood when he uses the cellular phone.
  
  
• Continuity: The manila folder with the disk changes size when brought into the evidence room.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Kruger is making the phony credit cards, he swipes the wrong edge of the card (without the magnetic stripe) through the card 'writer'.
  
  
• Factual errors: The nurse responds to Johnny C's "flat-line" asystole rhythm by saying "he's fibrillating." While fibrillation does receive shocks, it is a totally different rhythm than asystole, which receives none.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Stunt man's face visible during the parachute scene.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Lee Cullen types in the code of the file she's copying it begins with "CYX", probably a leftover reference to the original name of the company, Cyrex.
  
  
• Factual errors: The green circle of light supposedly emitted by the scope also pierces through solid, opaque surfaces as seen in the warehouse scene when a thug picks up Kruger's jammed shotgun and is subsequently misidentified by his partner, who is looking through an x-ray scope because he has no direct line of sight to the target.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie, Lee and Kruger are looking at the offshore bank accounts. Lee says pointing at the screen, "UBS, that's Union de Banque Suisse." Kruger brings up information about the "UBS" account, except that instead of "UBS" the computer screen now reads "USB" and stays that way through the rest of the scene.
  
  
• Factual errors: The house thermostat depicted is a common design with a mercury switch. Any spark when the heat goes on is confined to the sealed capsule containing the mercury, and hence cannot possibly ignite anything.
  
  
• Factual errors: There are numerous physics/engineering problems with the EM guns. We are told that they fire "aluminum rounds" at "nearly the speed of light". "Rounds" suggests projectiles of at least several milligrams rather than dust-sized. Then the shooter would certainly be knocked off his feet by recoil, which would accelerate him by over 6 mph per milligram of projectile fired. The power source would require about 40 gigawatts per milligram of projectile launched per second; and all this energy would then be released as heat, which would equal the explosive power of about 10 tons of TNT for each milligram of projectile. Further, great damage would be done behind the target: since no material is strong enough to slow a projectile appreciably from such speeds over a short distance, much of the projectile and debris would push through with practically undiminished speed. The actual physics shows that being struck with one of these ammunition rounds would send the victim into orbit around the earth. Also the recoil from the weapon would tear the arms from the torso cleanly.
  
  
• Factual errors: Cyrez's high-security vault would surely use a deadbolt lock. In that case, shooting up the code-entry keypad would not unlock it, but would make it impossible to unlock.
  
  
• Plot holes: Numerous physics problems with gun scopes that show a person's heart and skeleton (enabling him to be shot at accurately) through a solid wall. Only high-energy radiation as X-rays could be sufficiently penetrating to do this, but such radiation does not reflect; hence real-life X-ray imaging must be based on shadows, and requires the source and detector to be on opposite sides of the person. X-rays also will not clearly show soft tissues such as the heart unless these are dyed or images taken from various directions are combined (as in a CAT scan). Also, the image should be more confused, with structures in the walls both in front of and behind the target showing up in the scope as well.
  
  
• Continuity: DeGuerin passes round a photograph of the woman. One agent holds the photo, upright, by the bottom edge and passes it to Kruger who takes the photo by the top edge and looks at it. The photo should now be inverted as Kruger looks at it, however the shot from over his shoulder reveals that the pic is still upright
  
  
• Continuity: When Kruger talks with Beller in his office, the pictures and other objects on the desk move around between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Kruger drinks most of a small bottle of water on the plane, but when the bottle tips over and spills, it is over half full.
  
  
• Continuity: The fake blood that John Kruger is putting on Johnny C.'s shirt at the beginning of the film goes instantly from a line of drizzled red dye to a solid stain.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kruger opens the door in the plane he switches from holding on to something (to avoid getting sucked out of the plane) and holding the gun with both hands, between shots. (And if it was so important to hold onto something, wouldn't he have been sucked out of the plane when he was holding the gun with both hands?)
  
  
• Continuity: Krueger and Johnny C. park the ambulance behind a car after escaping from Cyrex. When they drive away in the car a moment later, the ambulance is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: During the battle in the reptile house at the NYC Zoo, DeGuerin's men spot Krueger and Lee through wire-reinforced door glass. They then break the glass with their guns and open the door by reaching through the wire-free window remnants.
  
  
• Continuity: Kruger's arm sling changes sides between shots near the end of the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the opening credits when Kruger is "gearing up" for his rescue mission, the shells that he loads his shotgun with are empty, as evidenced by the two indentations in the primer caps from the firing pin impact. This indicates that they have already been discharged.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lee is entering the Cyrez building her hair is pulled back. By the time she gets into the office her hair has a part on the right side. It then goes back to its original style.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Donahue shoots himself, the glass behind him shatters before his head recoils.
  
  
• Continuity: Kruger fires around 20 shots from a desert eagle .357 at the zoo without reloading.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the dart Kruger pulls out of his belt to throw at DeGuerin is airborne, you can see wires, as well as the trajectory being off from where Krugers hand in and how he threw it. Also, when it hits DeGuerin's arm, it doesn't lodge into his arm - you can actually see it deflect via the wires.
  
  
• Factual errors: After firing several shots at a bulletproof glass door with a semi-automatic handgun, Deguerin turns his gun on Lee and threatens to shoot her. But hammer on his gun is down when it should be fully cocked from the previous shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When John is in the warehouse, he jumps from the rafters twice.
  
  
• Factual errors: The technician on the 727 is able to trace John Kruger's call from his cellphone, to an apartment in NYC. However, Kruger had not called the apartment- rather, he called a pager. There would be no way to trace the call anywhere other than to the paging company's office.
  
  
• Plot holes: Lee and Kruger rush from Lee's house just as it explodes, however Lee remembers to grab her purse. In a later scene Kruger burns Lee's ID and Credit Cards. Lee also is in possession of the duplicate disc.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The logo on the lab coat of computer tech that traces the terminal Kruger is using after they sneak into the Cyrez building has the incorrect "Cyrex" name. (See also Trivia section.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Kruger talks with Casteleone in the gay bar, Casteleone takes off his gold bartender vest then turns to talk to the other bartender with his vest still on, and then he takes it off a second time.
  
  
• Continuity: When Deguerin holds Lee hostage on top of the container and tells Kruger to drop his gun, in the first shot he is seen pointing his gun at Lee, in the next (long) shot he is pointing it at Kruger, and then he instantly points it back at Lee.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kruger and Deguerin are fighting on the moving container, in the long shot Lee is seen letting go of the cable and crawling on hands and feet towards the gun. In the next shot she is once again holding on to the cable.
  
  
• Factual errors: According to the Federal Witness Protection Program guidelines, a case handler is in charge of a protected witness' safety in all accounts, so it is highly unethical (and against regulations) for John to ask help from his witnesses in dangerous situations, especially if it has nothing to do with their case.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Johnny and John walk towards the car after getting out of the Ambulance you clearly see a reflection of the boom mic.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, when Kruger and Lee get into the van outside the court, there is definitely no grate visible under the van. However, after the explosion, we see a hand closing a grate under the van.
  
  
• Factual errors: Reference to the scene when Robert Pastorelli is in the medical room: When a person is defibrillated, the unit fires an instant burst of electricity designed to try and reset a fibrillating heart. When Camryn Manheim discharges the unit, the electric hum is heard for several seconds, indicating a steady supply of electricity being sent to the heart. Defibrillators are not designed to do this. Even if a person were cardioverted (the shock being delivered at a certain point during the heart beat or electric cycle), the electricity would be a burst only.
  
  
• Continuity: Possibly deliberate: When the EM gun is used in the attack on Lee's (Vanessa Williams) house, it needs to be plugged into a satchel battery to operate. In the climactic battle, none of the EM guns have a battery pack. This may be deliberate to indicate a prototype vs production model, or to show they can hold a limited internal charge.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The type of parachute in the parachute scene is seen as round which has no controls, yet Kruger's characters, when seen in close-up, has controls and is able to turn the parachute to face the plane.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the reptile house, Kruger and Lee crouch behind a low brick wall for several minutes, during which there are a few close-ups showing that a soft-clay brick with bullet strikes has been stretched outward by the squibs exploding inside.
  
  

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