Factual error: Towards the end of the film, where St. John is trying to escape with Kim in his private jet, they are apparently attempting to take off from Santa Monica airport. When the camera shows the aircraft beginning its take off roll, the runway markings show that they are using runway 05L to take off from, however, the two runways available at Santa Monica airport are 03 and 21. (01:33:00)
Continuity mistake: On the highway, the police car he's in is struck twice on the back end. Impact actually pops the trunk. When the car drives off, there's no damage to the car.
Audio problem: When the police are about to handcuff Liam Neeson, he says "I didn't do this", but his lips don't move.
Factual error: When Liam puts the police car in reverse in the garage and backs into the elevator shaft, the speedometer goes up to 80mph. Speedometers don't work in reverse.
Continuity mistake: When Liam jumps in the water from under the truck, he goes completely underwater. When he is walking through the wash, his sweatshirt is half dry. (01:25:45 - 01:27:06)
Revealing mistake: When the car goes off the road, there is CGI smoke which is visible above the tinted window, but is missing from through the window which isn't completely blacked out.
Continuity mistake: When the Russian was coming down the steps in the apartment shootout he has on black bottoms, but when he is shot they turn white.
Continuity mistake: When Oleg is dying on the stairs in his apartment, we can see his back is resting on the fourth step. A couple of seconds later his back has somehow relocated to the third step after death.
Character mistake: Liam calls his daughter's boyfriend Timmy, then a minute later he calls him Jimmy.
Plot hole: When Bryan goes to the Russian bad guys' heavily-guarded apartment/office building, they make a point of saying that a guard upstairs monitors a camera and operates the elevator allowing only certain people to come up. Brian manages to trick the elevator operator into letting him up, then proceeds to kill him and all the other guards on the way to the apartment. How does he end up using the elevator to get back down when everyone is dead? And who is letting the cops up to the apartment when they show up well after everyone had been killed?
Answer: Some water might have been used, but actually waterboarding an actor would be a safety hazard. Most likely some special effects are involved.
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