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• Continuity: When McCauley confronts Charlene in the hotel room, a coat hanger is visible in the mirror behind Charlene. When looking directly at the rack (which is located behind McCauley), the coat hanger is not visible.
  
  
• Continuity: The "Leader" logo disappears from the ambulance when it is set on fire.
  
  
• Continuity: The level of whiskey in Vincent's glass while he is talking to Justine.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: Camera and crew reflected in the balcony window when Hanna is in his hotel room.
  
  
• Continuity: When Donald Breedan is shot driving away from the bank robbery the interior mirror in the car falls off as the window smashes. In the immediate camera shot after it falls off again.
  
  
• Continuity: During the attempted getaway in the midst of the shootout, Macauley, in the passenger seat, fires a gun repeatedly through the windshield of the car. We see rear view mirror fall twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The armored truck guard that Waingro shoots at the beginning of the movie changes positions before Waingro kills him.
  
  
• Continuity: The U-Haul truck at the bank jumps around between cuts.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A few crewmembers and their equipment are visible in the rear view mirror of Van Zant's delivery man's jeep at the drive-in.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A few crewmembers are reflected in the glass when Neil walks in front of Van Zant's house.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the equipment and a crewmember falls on the wall under the glass of the restaurant when the team is having dinner and waiting for Neil.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The Steadicam operator's legs are reflected in the car doors following Chris's movement when he runs by a green car during the shootout.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Two stage lights with blue filters are reflected in the glass behind Neil and Eady while they're standing and talking on the balcony.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Shadow of the sun-blocker falls on the road when Lauren is sitting on the bench turned with her back to us seeing Vincent and Bosco approaching in the car.
  
  
• Continuity: At one point during the shootout, Vincent fires from behind the front portion of a red car. After the cut, he continues shooting and runs past that car which is now a black limousine.
  
  
• Continuity: During the night after the shootout and the next morning, Vincent's suit changes colors, although he was not at home twice during that time when he could have changed them.
  
  
• Continuity: Jessica's green stockings appear and disappear.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A camera operator wearing a white hat is reflected in the getaway car's door at the bank.
  
  
• Continuity: Vincent's hair and Neil's shirt collar during the cafe confrontation scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Neil shoots Van Sant, you can clearly see the wire running up his pant leg to trigger the gunshot wounds.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Vincent is tailing Neil on the highway, he is holding down the microphone key of his walkie-talkie even when he is listening to other members of the surveillance team.
  
  
• Factual errors: There are numerous contradictions between real life weapons, their use, their effect, and the amount of times they can be fired before reloading.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: A cameraman's reflection can be seen on Vincent's jacket when he discovers he's been set up by Neil.
  
  
• Continuity: Alan Marciano's tie disappears and reappears when Vincent visits him in his office.
  
  
• Continuity: Marciano's tie disappears then reappears during his meeting with Hanna in Las Vegas.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double tackling Hugh Benny about midway through the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Hugh Benny is tackled through a glass door during a bust, it breaks before the actors crash into it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene in which Albert tells Vincent about meeting his brother, Albert says, "Vincent, Vincent, I swear man, tonight's the best I can do for you." His mouth clearly does not match what he says.
  
  
• Continuity: When the police are staking out Waingro's hotel room they use a camera on their hotel room door's peephole. After the fire alarm goes off, the door is opened and the display of the camera on the television in the room doesn't move in accordance to the movement of the door.
  
  
• Continuity: In the coffee shop, the man sitting behind Vincent Hanna variously has a wine glass, a coffee mug and a beer bottle in different shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The TV remote control placed on the table changes position during Vincent's conversation with Justine as he is watching the TV after returning from work.
  
  
• Continuity: Once during the armored car holdup, the spike strip is visible in the background before it has been deployed.
  
  
• Continuity: During the armored car heist the guys lay down a spike strip to blow out the tires of the police cars. The first police car hits the strip and drags it underneath. In a later scene the spike strip is visibly undisturbed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris confronts his wife Charlene at the house in the beginning, her hair changes radically between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Two police cars of different make approach the spike strip (and a third behind them). As the angle shifts just as they run over it, they switch positions.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Chris and McCauley are having coffee in McCauley's living room, we see smoke rise and appear on the screen before we hear the sound of Chris' cigarette being lit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Hanna enters his hotel room after deciding to call off his pursuit of the case, he closes the door and we can see that the anti-intruder latch has been fitted the wrong way round.
  
  
• Continuity: The blood that splatters on the window when Breedan is shot down in the car is already on the window in the shot of the outside of the car before he is shot.
  
  
• Continuity: At the drive-in, when Michael is firing his shotgun at the white Dodge truck, we see bullet holes in the passenger door. When the truck stops after hitting the fence barrier, these holes are missing.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end, when Neil and Eady are driving the interstates of L.A., at one point they are approaching an interstate ramp curve to the left. In the next shot, they are clearly in a curve to the right.
  
  
• Continuity: When McCauley shoots Van Zant, he fires the pistol empty, as the slide is clearly seen in the locked back position. In the very next shot of the same scene, the slide is forward and the gun appears ready to be fired.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chris is at Neil's place "sleeping it off" he lights a cigarette. There is smoke in view before he lights it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Neil steals the ambulance at the beginning, the soundtrack has the ambulance door slamming, although the door clearly bounces open again before Neil pulls it shut.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While Hanna is interviewing witnesses to the armored car heist, there is an abandoned TV playing outside. The TV is showing a blue "input" signal, despite being an older model that would be incapable of doing so; it should only be capable of playing static.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the bank robbery/shoot out scene, there are a sequence of shots showing Robert DeNiro carrying an injured Val Kilmer to safety. One of the shots shows DeNiro is obviously carrying a doll/mock-up of Val's character, as it's arms flail around while DeNiro's character makes jerking defensive movements.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see the young prostitute in the hotel with Waingro, her hair is straight and combed back. However, when Vincent is examining her body at the crime scene after Waingro has killed her, her hair is combed back but is braided in dreadlocks.
  
  
• Continuity: Amount of ice in Eady's drink changes, when she first meets Neil.
  
  
• Continuity: Amount and pattern of blood on Neil's shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: After the delivery man in the white truck is shot at the drive in, he is clearly seen inside the vehicle slumping down and dying from his injuries. In the next scene right before the truck glances off the concrete wall, the driver is sitting up again.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Detective Casals and Lt. Hanna are going to get Hugh Benny, Det. Casals shoots out the hinges of the door to Benny's place with a shotgun. A shot from a 12-gauge from this close would result in collateral damage and dangerous ricochets resulting in injuries to Casals and Hanna. However, Det. Casals can be seen loading Hatton breaching rounds into the shotgun earlier in the scene. These cartridges are designed to shoot out locks and hinges, and to minimize the risk of ricochets etc. Additionally, the "shots" that "hit" the hinges explode outward, from the other side of the door, and are inconsistent with a shotgun shot at close range.
  
  
• Continuity: When Vincent returns home before seeing his wife putting on makeup, Vincent looks at the dirty dishes in the sink, where we see a dirty plate in the left sink, and a wok with dirty dishes in it in the right sink. After Vincent comes back downstairs ("Okay, where are YOU goin'?), there are no dishes in the left sink and the dishes that were inside the wok in the right sink are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: The shootout after the bank robbery: the weather changes between sunny and overcast between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Vincent first gets out of the car at the bank robbery and shouts "Police! Move!" we see a couple coming towards him jump out of his way. In the next scene with Vincent, we see the same couple walking past him again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hanna goes to his hotel after leaving Justine, he walks to the balcony to look out at the city lights. The camera angle changes to a view from behind his head so you can see the view, but the hair color and hair style of the man seen from behind is noticeably different - obviously a double.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the bank robbery getaway, McCauley fires through the windshield at the police in front of them. He is using a fully automatic weapon yet only a couple of bullet holes appear while he is firing. While it is possible several rounds went through the same hole, the scene is still completely inconsistent with an actual event.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Neil's crew is stealing over twelve million dollars from the bank divided up into three very large seabags that are worn over the shoulder. With that much money, each bag would weigh over eighty pounds each, yet when they are escaping from the bank, they are running with the bags of money as if they weighed almost nothing.
  
  
• Continuity: After Neil visits Hugh Benny's place and after he slammed Hugh Benny through the patio window, there are no pieces of the glass on the balcony, where Neil would have been stepping all over it.
  
  
• Continuity: The glass that was broken after Neil rammed Hugh Benny through it is back in place after Hanna's call to Schwartz.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After the bank robbery, Michael tries to escape, and in so doing, trips and falls into a pond. When he gets up to take the little girl hostage, he looks dry. The suit is indeed wet though, which is evident when looking closely. It just doesn't seems that way. Some fabrics look similar wet and dry.
  
  
• Plot holes: Waingro surely would have recognized Neil at the Marquis hotel where he was staying, even though Neil was in disguise as a porter during the false fire alarm he set off.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Waingro knew about the Bank Heist from Trejo, whose love, Anna, he had abducted. This is explained by Trejo himself at almost two hours into the film, by Trejo himself, shortly after Neil realizes that only Trejo could have revealed it, on account of being the only one who knew the details, and wasn't on the heist (since he couldn't shake the cops). We know Waingro is lying when he presents himself as an associate of McCauley's to Roger Van Zant, who's the one who alerts the cops about the heist. We then have to assume it's Waingro who tells him about it, and he learned it from Trejo.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the final scene, Hanna becomes aware of McCauley's position by a shadow near his feet. In the following aerial shot, it is obvious that McCauley's position could not cast a shadow to where Hanna is standing. McCauley's shadow would have been cast mostly onto the structure he was hiding behind.
  
  

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