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• Factual errors: Signs advertise an election to be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2054. 22 April 2054 will be a Wednesday.
  
  
• Continuity: Shots from the outside of Lara's cottage show the windows on the front open, however as Agatha is walking around inside, behind the same windows, they appear closed.
  
  
• Continuity: The jacket that Agatha is holding, disappears and reappears on her shoulder during the car journey.
  
  

• Continuity: As Anderton approaches Crow, he has his gun drawn. Then we see him from a different angle and he draws his (already drawn, as far as we know) gun.
  
  
• Continuity: Anderton says "his" case is #1109, but the display screen he uses to sort it out says it's #1108.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Iris hands the "plant-waterer" to Anderton it is pointing one way (watering hole to Anderton's left), when the camera angle changes it is it is pointing the other way.
  
  
• Continuity: Joel Gretsch's character is listed as "Donald Doobin" in the credits, but the name appears in the movie as "Donald Dubin".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Anderton is being chased through the alleyway, the hole cut in his leather jacket for his safety harness is clearly visible when he is at the top of the fire-escape.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton is arresting Howard Marks, he states the date as April 22. Later while Anderton is running, the commercial states the vote on the National Pre-Cog Initiative is on April 22 and later that same day while he is walking with Burgess, Lamar says that "in one week" the people will vote on the initiative.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The events take place in the year 2054, but when Anderton is checking the hotel registry to look for Leo Crow, the entry he sees just before he sees the one for Crow is for a hotel client who has checked in and out in the year "44" (i.e. 2044). The entry for Crow has the year reference blanked out.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After John's chase in the Lexus, a crouching crewmember in a white shirt is reflected in the car door as it opens.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the alley where the police are attempting to subdue Anderton, he takes a sick stick and pokes one of the policemen who vomits immediately, but the vomit is coming from "below" his mouth - that the "vomit tube" is mis-positioned on the left side of the actor's face.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Safety diver visible in the upper right-hand corner of the screen when Anderton is in the pool holding his breath.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton tumbles into the yoga class after jumping from his car, the Asian yoga student in the green leotard is flat down on her chest. In the next shot, the same yoga student is up on her hands.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton is in the park looking for Howard Marks' house, the merry-go-round behind him is not moving. A couple shots later, the merry-go-round is moving in the foreground.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton confronts and then shoots Leo Crow, Agatha is crawling off the bed and takes most of the pictures off the bed onto the floor with her. Later, when Witwer and the PreCrime team are studying the crime scene, the pictures are back on the bed. It is unlikely that either Anderton or Agatha would have stopped to put the pictures back on the bed before leaving, and no policeman worth his salt would have disturbed a crime scene and scooped up the pictures and put them on the bed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton is in the greenhouse with the pre-crime's creator, she says, "This just isn't your week is it," as she helps him sit down, and takes her hands off of him. In the next shot she has her hands in the original location as he says, "I am not a killer."
  
  
• Continuity: When in Anderton's house, Danny Witwer is sitting in front of Lara asking for her husband. In the first shot she's sitting with both arms and legs in the same position. In the next shot, her left leg is crossed and his right arm is resting on the photo frame.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton is first viewing the images from the Mark's murder, the technician behind him takes his folder and folds it behind his arms twice.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Anderton remembers Solomon P. Eddie set his patients on fire, Eddie says "I put 'em out!" and then "Some not as quickly as others..." but his mouth does not match the words.
  
  
• Continuity: When Howard Marks picks up his glasses from the bedside table, he is holding them upside down. In the next shot he puts them on, and he is holding them right-side up.
  
  
• Continuity: After Anderton has attacked Crow in the hotel room, the position of the broken glass in the mirror changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the robots are looking for Tom Cruise to scan his eye, he grabs a small cooler of ice and throws it into the bathtub to get in and hide. The next time the camera shows the tub, there is nearly 10 times as much ice in the tub.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Leo Crow murder is first envisioned by the PreCogs, Jad says that the "time of occurrence is 15:06 hours", which is 3:06pm. After Anderton sees that it's him in the prevision, he sets the alarm on his watch for 35 hours and 56 minutes. Counting backwards from 3:06pm this means that it is currently just after 3am when Anderton, Jad, Wally and the rest of PreCrime are at work. Also, when Anderton tries to escape on the MagLev and calls Lamar in his office, it is obviously in broad daylight and not 3am.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton has surgery to change his eyes he has brown eyes, but on the computer screen his eyes are blue. Also the eyes he uses to get access to the Pre-cog are blue.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Lexus factory when one of the agents chases Anderton behind a whole bunch of plastic barrels, the agent gets knocked out by Anderton causing his gun to slide across the floor and one of the plastic barrels to fall over on its side. In the next shot of the gun sliding across the floor, the plastic barrel lands in an upright position.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton is sitting in the greenhouse, you see some plants in his background, in the next scene the plants are gone.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Anderton's wife gains access to the prison cell, Gideon (the organ-playing attendant) asks how she got in. She drops a bag with one of Anderton's eyes on the organ keyboard, with an accompanying discordant organ sound. But in the close-up of the bag, it's not depressing any of the keys. It seems that the music was added to the background score by the filmmakers as an accompaniment to the plot twist that has just taken place.
  
  
• Factual errors: I watched the DVD version of the movies with English subtitles. When Anderton is with the doctor to have his eyes replaced to avoid detection, the doctor speaks in a foreign language to his female assistant. According to the subtitles, the language is Russian. However, this is not so; they speak Swedish to each other.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While Anderton is jogging through the street, an ad for pre-crime is playing, during which a future-victim states "he was going to rape me." However, later when Witwer is asking the pre-crime crew questions they discuss how the pre-cogs cannot see rape because of "the nature of murder". If the attacker were only going to rape her, the pre-cogs would not have predicted it, but if the attacker had planned to kill her after the rape, the rape would most likely have been seen as part of the pre-cogs' vision.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dr. Eddie injects Anderton with the anesthetic Anderton bends Eddie's arm behind him and lays him down on a table. Anderton then removes the needle from Eddie's hand. We then cut to a closeup of Eddie saying "You wouldn't break the hand of the violinist before the concert" and the needle is back in his hand.
  
  
• Continuity: It's the year 2054, yet the tour guide outside the PreCrime building says the PreCrime program began in 2046. We are then later told that Leo Crow's murder was the "first murder in the 6 year PreCrime experiment", which places the beginning of PreCrime in 2048.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When John is on top of his maglev car, it suddenly curves down the side of the building, forcing him to hang off it by his hands. Before it cuts to close-up, you can clearly see that his car is only about 5 or 6 seconds from reaching the bottom of the building and curving back to horizontal. But then he takes 45 seconds to climb and jump from car-to-car and eventually off the building - the side of the building just goes on forever as long as it needs to.
  
  
• Continuity: When the children are being given a tour outside, the Guide/Teacher says Pre-Cog started in 2046 and mentions the program being around for 9 years. The year is currently 2054 so at most only 8 years. Also twice during the film they say Pre-Cog has been around for 6 years, once near the start and once at the very end.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Anderton is viewing the hologram of his son, the camera pans round to the rear of the child's image and his back can be clearly seen, even though the holographic camera used to film the boy could not possibly see it. This is emphasized later when John is viewing his wife and a shot from the same angle shows her face, not the back of her head.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the hotel reception, Agatha wrongly addresses Anderton as 'Anderson'.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anderton kicks out the window of the car and climbs outside, he ends up standing on the same window he kicked out (which shouldn't, of course, be there anymore).
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Agatha calls Anderton "Anderson" when she first begs him to leave the apartment building at the front desk after he learns what room Leo Crow is in. She says "Anderson, leave!"
  
  
• Continuity: The story is set in 2054, but when Anderton is finally located on the subway (because of being eye-scanned), the information that is displayed in the PreCrime headquarters says that the date of the crime is "DEC 13 2055" and that Anderton has been missing since "DEC 12 2055." (You need to freeze-frame on the DVD, then flip the image horizontally to read the text being displayed on the transparent computer screen.)
  
  
• Plot holes: Given that the PreCogs should be totally protected from any tampering (even Anderton isn't allowed to touch them), the windows inside The Temple should be unbreakable.
  
  
• Continuity: When John Anderton and Agatha approach the door of room 1006 where Crow is supposed to be staying, the doorknob is on the left side of the door. In the next shot, when John Anderton knocks on and opens the door, the doorknob is on the right side.
  
  
• Continuity: When the police are sending the "spiders" for John after he has his eyes replaced, they discuss whether they should use "four spiders, on for each floor" and settling on 8 to be more time efficient. When they start zapping John there are multiple "spiders" present indicating that they are operating on the same floor. (The spiders may have been redirected to meet on the floor John was on after his body went cold.)
  
  
• Plot holes: Given that Anderton is a man on the run it would make sense to revoke his access rights to PreCrime. However in the movie he is able to access sensitive areas using his old eyes. His ex-wife does the same later in the movie to access the prison.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When on the fire escape in the alleyway chase scene, Anderton releases the hover-pack from an officer in flight but checks that the officer has a grip on the railing so as not to fall. Behind the officer's helmet, the flying rig/safety cable can be clearly seen.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Anderton is in Crow's building he says that he must find out about the situation - if he had just waited 10 more minutes, the vision would have been proved false.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Crow is shot in the hotel room, he misstates Anderton's name as "Anderson". (In the subtitles, it's written correctly.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During Anderton's visit with pre-crime's creator in her garden, she tightly squeezes a vine while talking to him about every living things natural instinct: survival. The vine then pulls free, slicing her, and she immediately opens her hand to reveal a large cut on her palm that already appears to have bled out and scabbed over. There is not enough time to bleed the amount that was shown a split second after the injury, in fact there is no bleeding apparent at all.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Goof submissions relating to perceived holes in the logic of what pre-cogs can/cannot do are not being accepted. Since they are a fantasy creation, they can do whatever the filmmakers say they can do, even when their abilities are apparently contradictory.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Danny Witwer is shot, a blood pack is visible under his shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: Lamar shoots Danny Witwer in the head and in the chest, where his blood pools and accumulates. But in subsequent shots of Lamar on the phone with Lara, with Danny's body slumped over in the lower right of the frame, there is no blood on his shirt, and his head is intact.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: John Anderton clearly has an alibi for Danny's murder. Lamar Burgess is seen cleaning John Anderton's gun after killing Witwer. While he is doing this, he talks to Lara on the phone where she tells him that John has just arrived with the Precog. Since Danny's murder wasn't predicted or prevented by the Precogs, we'd be left to believe that normal forensic science and due process of the law would be applied, especially to the death of a deputy of the Attorney General.
  
  

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