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• Revealing mistakes: When the girls are in the apartment in France, they turn the music up loud so they do not hear Kim's mobile phone ringing. When the camera pans over to her handbag, you can clearly hear the phone ringing, however the phone shows the "Silent" mode is selected.
  
  
• Continuity: When Brian is interrogating Marko he removes his tie and loosens his collar. When he returns to the light switch his tie has returned, only for it to be missing again on his next trip to the light switch.
  
  
• Continuity: When Kim is struggling with her abductors in the apartment, the area of the mirror that was broken changes between her smashing in to it, and Bryan going to the apartment to re-enact the abduction in his mind.
  
  

• Continuity: When Brian, Kim and Lenor are in the restaurant the amount of cream and position of the cherries on the milkshake changes between shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Brian is listening to the mobile phone and the call ends, the audio sounds like a home phone cutting off instead of a mobile. However, it is actually the sound of the phone being smashed, which is confirmed later when the phone is discovered smashed.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end of the movie on the boat when he is fighting the man with the knife, the man smashes a lamp on the wall and in the next frame it is back and untouched.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bryan is driving Kim to the airport, he is seen driving a Nissan Sentra on the road. However, the interior shots of the car are of a BMW 7-Series. It is evident by BMW's distinctly unique seat and headrest design.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Brian is taking care of the prostitute who had his daughters jacket, the prostitute has a white glob on her chin, and later on, that glob disappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Peter jumps off the elevated road to escape Liam Neeson's character, the semi-truck trailer that Peter lands on clearly has a padded roof.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Kim is in the café talking about the trip, the hair on the right side of her head covers and then uncovers her ears multiple times between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bryan (Liam Neeson) goes to the girls' hotel room in Paris for the first time, he edges along a ledge on the outside of the building. There is a top-down shot that clearly shows a stunt double to be performing this act.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Brian attacked the construction site, no one knew what he looks like, yet they knew who to shoot when they had come out. But it could just be that they all know each other by sight and Brian, being several inches taller and a lot fairer in skin and hair colour, stands out as someone who shouldn't be there.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bryan wants to find out who the kidnappers are, somebody gives them a description that's says something about Yugoslavia. While there is no such country anymore, the Yugoslavian Republic long since having separated into numerous smaller countries, it's still a recent enough event in history that people commonly refer to the area as "Yugoslavia", partially due to the number of countries now there, some of which are only a year or two old.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bryan dives over the couch in the fight scene, blood shoots from his leg/foot as if he was shot, but seconds later there is no sign of injury.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Amanda was taking a photo, the camera phone was held in the landscape position, but when Peter was taking the photo for them, he held it in the portrait position. Later, when Bryan was reviewing the photos, all the photos were in the landscape position, including the one supposedly taken by Peter.
  
  
• Continuity: When, at the time of the kidnapping, the kidnappers pick up the cellphone to hear who's speaking, Bryan (Liam Neeson) picks up the phone and starts speaking to them explaining his "skills" and we see no chords connecting the phone to the recording device. Later we see him listening to the words "Good luck" while he is on the plane. Those words play a main part in the plot of the story, but they were not evidently recorded.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Bryan's only lead on Staint-Clair is the address 26 St Louis en l'Ile, Paris, obtained when Jean-Claude searches for him in the database. However, the mansion where the party is hosted is not the same building located at that address, as can be confirmed by a Google Maps Street-level search.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dialogue errors: Bryan says, "What I do have are a very particular set of skills..." He really means, "What I do have is a very particular set of skills..." Also, when talking to Kim on the phone, we hear her say, "...are in Spain" to which Bryan replies "To Spain." The more natural response would have been to repeat and respond, "In Spain," being surprised by that new information.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Bryan poses as a corrupt French official and tells some Albanian crooks that they are being monitored by a satellite 200 miles overhead. As an experienced former spy, Bryan should have known to say "kilometers", not "miles". As Europeans, the crooks should have immediately recognized that no Frenchman would use "miles" to describe distance.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the boat toward the end of the movie the sheik's main guard makes a mistake in Arabic when telling his guys "there is a man on the boat" - the word "boat" in Arabic is "Safina", but he says "Fasina".
  
  
• Continuity: Bryan's head throughout the movie has no white hair, but at the corrupt French police officer's apartment his hair appears to have white hair roots on forehead sides.
  
  
• Continuity: When Brian listens to the recording of his daughter on the airplane, the recording starts when his daughter says "They've got her", which would have been when his daughter was in the bathroom. Brian originally started the recording after his daughter was under the bed in the bedroom so the recording would not have that part in it. It would have also recorded Brian's voice which was not on the recording.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene when Jean-Claude puts his children to bed, he leaves the light on in their room as he closes the door. In the next shot, no light can be seen coming out from under the door.
  
  
• Continuity: Whenever Kim is giving Bryan the description of the man that's taking her, she yells that he has a beard. However, whenever Bryan is listening to the tape on the plane we hear that he has a mustache. Later when he arrives at the apartment and goes over what happened, we hear that he has a beard again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Kim's Dad takes her picture at the airport, there is is flash but it is obvious that the flash doesn't come from his camera.
  
  
• Factual errors: Kim's map of Europe places U2 in Spain on June 16 and in Paris on May 29. In actuality the band was in Manchester and Boston, respectively.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Brian is sitting down in the chair in his and wakes up from his dream in his house/apartment, there are clearly two boxes of Chinese food placed on the table in front of him, then in a later shot the Chinese food is no longer visible.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): It would seem that a "French" inspector with an American/slight Irish accent would arouse some sort of suspicion among Marko and his other henchmen.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Kim was being kidnapped she says "beard 6 feet". But when Bryan listens to the recording while sitting in the plane it's recorded as "mustache 6 feet."
  
  
• Continuity: When Peter escapes out of the taxi and proceeds up the highway, you can see a clear path - no cars. However, when Liam Neeson's character proceeds after him in the taxi, you can see cars behind Peter. Where did those car's come from?
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene at the building site, some men are seen in hard-hats in a style that is not available nor permitted in France.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Brian arrives at the scene of the kidnap and accepts the open door from the lady leaving the apartment building, he has a large paper bag of groceries. Paper bags of this style are not available in France.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bryan never reloads his gun in the movie. However, he often takes the gun of people he has just killed, so reloading is not necessary.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Bryan finally finds his daughter being auctioned off she is very clearly heavily dosed with drugs because her facial features are relaxed and her orientation is off. However, when she is saved minutes later, or maybe a half-hour tops in the film's time, she is completely aware of what is going on and the drugs have come out of her system, unlike the girl Bryan rescued before. However, Saint Clair did not use the same drugs that Marko used in sedating his girls, as his clientèle was of a higher caliber, and would not want the girls sweaty and unresponsive like the girls in the trailer. So it's quite plausible that Kim could have recovered to the point of recognizing her father by the time she was rescued.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Bryan goes in search of Patrice Saint-Clair and at the entrance when the security checks Bryan's identity card, it's clearly seen that Bryan's photo is stuck on the card. This was later discovered by security as a trick when Bryan is briefly captured.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Bryan is chasing Peter up the ramp, he turns into heavy traffic with squealing tires and all. After Peter dies, Brian walks on the highway near the cars and it has basically turned into a parking lot with unmanned autos, no noise and no brake lights as you would have in a traffic stoppage.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: A just-slain security man lying on the floor on the boat has blood stains on his shirt that appear to have been dried for a while.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Early in the movie, Sheerah's vocal coach, Gio, is presumably the black man rehearsing with her before she goes onstage at a concert. At the end of movie, given the implied context of the visit to see Sheerah, the person we see at her piano is not the same man. However, the man at the piano may just be an accompanist and not the vocal coach. Since we cannot see the whole house from the front door, Gio could easily be somewhere off camera.
  
  

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