Goofs for
Heist (2001/I) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The boxes in the airplane containing the gold come from the "Bank of Geneva" and have the image of a bear. The animal of Geneva is the eagle, not the bear, which belongs to Berne, the Swiss capital.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first visit to the airplane, the boxes are correctly depicted as extremely heavy. But when the robbers pay a second visit, to pick up the real gold in the "foundry" containers, the boxes are wheeled around too lightly and effortlessly.
  
  
• Factual errors: The airport ground controller directs the Pan Genève aircraft to taxi to "runway alpha". Runways are always denoted by numbers - taxiways are denoted by letters.
  
  

• Factual errors: The New Zealand passport that Joe is handed, which he refers to as "good work", is the wrong color.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Massachusetts State Police Troopers are seen wearing Glock Pistols and wielding Mossberg 500 shotguns, neither of which have ever been used by the Mass State Police.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Massachusetts State Police Troopers all wear plain leather gunbelts and accessories. In reality all duty gear for the Mass State Police is patent leather.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The Massachusetts State Trooper who pulls over to inspect the phony "work site", asks Joe Moore if he called "K Barracks" to receive a police detail for the job. There are no "K Barracks" in the Mass State Police. There are seven field Troops in Massachusetts (A, B, C, D, E, H, and F) which are named by letter. Barracks are always called by a letter and number combination i.e. H-4 is the Boston Lower Basin Barracks. If the location is supposed to be close to Logan Airport the appropriate Troop letter to refer to would have been F, and the Trooper would have referred to it as "F Troop", not "F Barracks".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end of the movie as Hackman is leaving the garage in the old Ford several black metal castings are protruding from the bed of the pick-up. When he drives out and scrapes one of the castings all of the remaining castings are completely in the bed of the truck. Then when he covers the load with the tarp and places a casting on top of the tarp along side the load he handles it as if it was quite light. A solid gold casting of that length and diameter would be quite heavy.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: When Joe kills Mickey with a shotgun, a sound effect of a shotgun being cocked is heard before it is fired. However, the shotgun that Joe uses is not a kind that needs to be cocked before fired.
  
  

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