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• Continuity: When Wesley Gibson is tied to the chair and punched in the face, a cut on the bridge on his nose disappears and re-appears in some shots.
  
  
• Continuity: After Fox's car drives off the bus during the first car chase, the back window shatters. Minutes later it is back, with minimal damage.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wesley confronts Pekwarsky, he pulls back the hammer of his pistol. In a closer shot, with the gun to Pekwarsky's head, he uses the trigger to slowly pull back the hammer.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Wesley returns to his apartment to retrieve his father's gun, Barry's missing tooth is clearly blacked out.
  
  
• Continuity: Wesley hits Barry in the mouth with a keyboard, and a lower molar flies out of Barry's mouth. When Wesley goes back to get his father's gun, his upper incisor is missing. While it could be argued that Barry lost more than one tooth, but the teeth are in different regions of the mouth, and Wesley hit him once.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Wesley and Fox jump over the roof of the train for the first time, Fox is wearing high-heeled boots. After they jump, Fox is wearing flat boots.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the scene when Wesley is told to shoot the wings off the flies, Gunsmith holds a gun to his head. When he cocks the hammer back, there is a sound clip of a gun having the slide manipulated, not a click of a hammer.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fox tells Wesley how her father was killed, a brand with initials appear on the side of her neck. They were never there before, and never appear again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fox and Wesley are walking along the factory wall, Fox's hair style changes after Sloan curves the bullet.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the train station, a door leads to an elevator with a sign that says "An elevator with an operator" in Czech. The accented letters in "operator" are wrong. It was most likely translated on a computer without Central European fonts, a common mistake.
  
  
• Continuity: In one of the later bullet-curve training scenes, Wesley slices through the edge of the pig with a bullet. In the next shot, the bullet hole is an inch inside the outline of the pig and there is no tear to be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: During the train crash scene, the last cars start derailing. However, in the next shot, the middle cars that are slipping off, and the back of the train is on the track.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wesley goes to the ATM after first meeting Sloan, his balance, which now includes his father's assets, is $3,647,035.59. He withdraws some money. When checks his balance online afterward, it is unchanged.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. X runs through the corridor to jump out, the papers fly away after he passes the doors. In the next shot, he is running through the flying papers.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Wesley hits Barry with his keyboard and the words 'FUCK YOU' fly off. A keyboard only has one letter 'U', but the final letter 'U' is one of Barry's teeth.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene after Wesley quits his job, Fox is outside waiting in an Audi SUV. When driving, there's a close-up of the back of the car, and the Audi logo is missing. However, when Fox parks in front of the textile building, the Audi logo is clearly seen in the back of the car.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Wesley is deciphering the death order for Sloan, you can see a permanent marker code already written on the glass table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wesley is in his father's apartment having everything explained to him, his hair is wet from the bath. In one shot by the window hair is sticking up on either side of his head, the next shot it is fixed, and the next shot it is sticking up again.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The movie is suppose to take place in Chicago, but when Wesley drives the Mustang and Fox drives the C4 Corvette to assassinate the man in the limousine, they race through Long Island City, Queens. The Citicorp building and the New York City skyline are in the background.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Wesley's first assignment, Robert Deane Darden, is described as a 48-year-old man who weighs 180 kg. (396 lbs.). It's strange that his height is given in imperial, and his weight in metric. Also, a 6'1" man weighing 180kg would be quite massive, either very muscular or very obese, whereas the man Wesley's shown to kill looks quite average. Did Wesley kill the correct target?
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: It's a little strange that the fraternity uses binary code, especially since the binary code that they used correlates to the ASCII chart (e.g. '01101000' translates to an 'H'). The first ASCII chart was created in 1963, and the version they use was updated in 1986. If the fraternity was created around 1,000 years ago, they may have invented ASCII.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Fraternity would not have called themselves that 1,000 years ago. The word first appeared around 1309, as the Middle English word "fraternite." In fact, the founders would have spoken Old English, which has more in common with Old Norse than Modern English. The closest equivalent would probably be a word based on "broþor", the Old English for "brother" (as in brotherhood).
  
  
• Continuity: During the chase sequence with the Mustang and the C4 Corvette, a camera shot briefly shows Fox's hand down-shifting from above. It shows the shift lever from the Dodge Viper used earlier in the movie.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Both kill orders include a statement, starting "I Hereby Acknowedge..." It should be spelled "Acknowledge".
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Wesley types in his name in the search engine, www.google.com, he enters it without quotations, and gets no results. However, in order to get no results for a name, you would have to put the name in quotations, like "Wesley Gibson" - assuming there is someone by that name. If you only enter the name without quotations, like in the film, the search query will yield any results for Wesley, and any results for Gibson, like Wesley + Gibson as opposed to "Wesley Gibson", making it factually impossible for a search engine to yield zero results. There would be plenty of results for Gibson and Wesley, seeing as both are common names respectively.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mr. X is first being attacked there are three shots fired one at the woman and two at him which shatter the glass doors. Although if you look closely when he jumps through the window there is only one bullet hole in the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: After Wesley is rescued by Pekwarsky, he takes 3 portraits from a shelf but in the next scene he is holding 4 which were originally there.
  
  
• Plot holes: After quitting his job, Wesley sees his and Fox's photo from the security camera, at the pharmacy, on the all newspapers' front pages. Once the incident at the pharmacy occurred, the police would have questioned the pharmacist who had Wesley's name for the prescription (and most likely his address also). The police would have picked him up before he went to work for questioning.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Russian claims that the bath stimulates white blood cells, so wounds heal faster than they would on their own. In actuality, white blood cells are the body's defense against intrusion, either by foreign objects or by foreign organisms and have absolutely no effect on either clotting or cell regeneration.
  
  
• Continuity: As Fox is beating up Westley, there is a punch that is divided into three shots. And, in the first shot, she starts the punch with her left fist, which is bare. The next shot shows her other fist, the one with the brass knuckles, coming at the camera. The third shot finishes the punch, still with the bare fist.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sloan is showing Westley the loom, he puts a clipboard on the fabric, which clearly demonstrates the fact that while the machinery's working, it's not really doing anything since the fabric isn't moving.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene after Wesley quits his job, Fox is outside waiting in an Audi SUV. When driving, there's a close-up of the instrument panel, focusing on the knife used to steal the car. Although the car is supposedly driving, the speedometer is at zero. Also in that scene, you can see the knife's blade is actually bigger than the ignition lock slot's width.
  
  
• Continuity: After Wesley quits his job, Fox is picking him up in an Audi Q7. When driving, you can see both of them through the passenger door window. Although the car is moving, the reflection in the mirror cover doesn't move - while every other reflection (e.g. in the window) is moving.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Fox is driving the Dodge Viper, she rams the police car into the barrels and gets water sprayed all over the her windshield. In the next scene the windshield is spotless and there are no streaks to indicate she hit the wipers.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wesley is in the Mustang going after his target, he fires 2 shots into the bulletproof glass. When the shot cuts back to him when he says "Shit" , the slide on his gun is clearly locked back, signifying he is empty. His gun of choice is a Heckler & Koch P2000 9mm Compact. This model has a 14 round capacity. Even a novice assassin like him would ensure is gun was fully loaded when "hunting" as a contingency.
  
  
• Factual errors: Every time we see a bullet fired from modern guns fly through the air, it has 3 shallow grooves in it. Most modern firearms have 5-6 sets of lands and grooves, depending on the manufacturer. The Heckler & Koch that Wesley uses for most of the film has 6 sets of hexagonal lands and grooves, whereas the Beretta that Sloan uses to show Wesley how to "curve the bullet" has 5 sets. The Olympic Arms Matchmaster that Fox uses also has 6 sets, and would definitely "score" the bullet accordingly, therefore making the "Goodbye" on her last bullet impossible to read.
  
  
• Factual errors: When The Butcher sticks the knife in Wes' gun, and the knife is broken and Wes fires, it shoots the broken blade at The Butcher. In reality, since the barrel is blocked, firing the gun with the barrel blocked would result in the gun backfiring.
  
  
• Continuity: (At 44:59) Fox (Angelina Jolie) character is seen emerging from the water, just as the male character had (whose hair was soaking wet). A few seconds later, her figure is revealed in focus, hair clearly completely dry, and bunned.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: When Wesley is in the recovery bath removing the bullet from his shoulder, his shirt sleeve shifts to reveal the puckered edges of the latex covering the spurting blood-pack.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the last scene, when Wesley sets up Sloan, when the camera shows Sloan looking down, you can see the cross made out with post-it notes, however only seconds before when the camera is approaching Wesley's desk, you can see the floor but no post-it notes.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: In the last scene where Wesley sets up Sloan, when the camera shows Sloan looking down, you can see a trashcan to the right. However only seconds before when the camera is approaching Wesley's desk, you can see there is no trashcan at all.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Wesley gets his first assignment from Sloan at the Loom of Fate, he reads a sheet of paper that Sloan has just deciphered. A few seconds later, Wesley looks at the paper and it shows the target's description. If Sloan had just deciphered this name, how is the description part of the paper already filled in? This is either a continuity error, or the first evidence that Sloan is manufacturing the names of the targets.
  
  

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