- Anachronisms: The motor-carriage that is seen outside the skating rink and later on the street by the flower shop, has current bicycle type tires (metal rims and spokes), most vehicles of the time had wooden rims and spokes, lined with rubber.
- Continuity: In the opening scene, the contents of the blackboard change between shots.
- Continuity: At the climax of the movie when Alexander is fighting with Uber-Morlok, the blood on his face comes and goes.
- Continuity: When Alexander and Emma are being robbed in the park, She is shot and falls to the ground, her hat falls off very near to her head and slightly to the left. In the next shot, the hat is on the right hand side and far away from her body.
- Continuity: When Alexander is unconscious traveling into the future, the dials on the time machine seem to be spinning at a rate of around one million years per second. He would have far surpassed the year 802,701.
- Revealing mistakes: When Alexander arrives on the date of May 24th, 2030, he is seen watching the "Future is now" on a large screen. When he unravels the rope that lets the "step-down" stairs down, a man in a white shirt and blue jeans can be seen slightly behind the time machine for a brief second, then he vanishes back under the machine when Alexander is walking toward the screen.
- Miscellaneous: Actress Myndy Crist, who is the friendly New Yorker who thinks Alexander Hartdegen's Time Machine is a Cappuccino maker, is listed in the movie credits as "Jogger", but in the entire scene she is walking or unlocking and riding a bicycle, thus her credit should be "Bicyclist", since she isn't Jogging anywhere in the film.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It is impossible for the moon to remain in scattered fragments after such a long time as 800,000 years. By that time, gravity would have caused the fragments to fall back together into one contiguous moon or to form a ring around the Earth. However, the later shot of the moon in the far-flung future shows that it is continuing to fracture, indicating that the detonation that cased it to fragment in the first place was much deeper than simply a few stray fragments, and the stretching between the two time periods shows that the pieces are becoming the aforementioned ring.
- Plot holes: If Alexander's original departure point was on February 3, 1903, then Alexander would be visible in his house making the time machine during the 1899-2030 time travel sequence. However, he is absent.
- Factual errors: Most, if not all of the structures built in New York City around Alexander's former home on East 60th street are not present during the zoom out section of the 1899-2030 time travel sequence. Some of these structures include the Plaza Hotel, The Metropolitan Club, The Pierre, Hotel Sherry-Netherland, Ritz Tower, and Rockefeller Center.
- Factual errors: After 800,000 years the half moon could still be visible in the sky. Over a span of that time period the gravitational tidal forces between the earth and the half moon should eventually crush it back into a sphere.
- Continuity: When Alex is traveling forwards in time and drops the photo chain, his fingernails grow a couple of centimeters on his right hand as he grabs it outside the machine's vortex. You don't see him cutting his nails back down, but when he wakes up and rubs his eyes, his fingernails on his right hand have been cut and are clearly longer than the nails on his right hand, indicating that Mara cut them while he was asleep, but not so short to hurt him.
- Factual errors: In the Eloi's time, the ruins of the library still have clearly visible, sharply incised inscriptions. Such carvings erode significantly after several hundred, or at most, several thousand years; after 800,000 years they should have been illegible, due to erosion from rain or wind, or (if they had been buried) chemical reactions in the soil.
- Revealing mistakes: When Alexander is fighting with the Über-Morlock on the time machine, you can easily see, in the close up choking shots, that Jeremy Irons is wearing what looks to be white surgical gloves.
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- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Alexander first meets the head Morlock and gets strangled by him, you can easily see Jeremy Irons' fake fingernails coming loose and revealing his real ones. Also during the fight scene, in several different places you can see where the white make-up on Jeremy Irons' face ends and his un-make-upped face begins, usually around or behind the ears.
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