Continuity mistake: When Tapia is talking to the guy about severing his head then threatens his family, he takes the pictures out of the box and the pictures are facing Alexei, but in the next shot they are facing Tapia, as he turns them around to show him. (01:05:45)
Continuity mistake: When Marcus and Mike are in Tapia's house to eliminate the rats, Mike jumps through the kitchen window. While doing that jump, he loses his "Zook" cap, but in the shot when they are sitting in the car, he has his cap back on. (01:07:25)
Continuity mistake: Just before smashing through the wall in the Cadillac vs. funeral van chase, the van apparently hits some vegetation before smashing through a fake brick wall. The attached vegetation changes between shots and is completely missing in some. (01:24:15 - 01:27:00)
Continuity mistake: During the van chase, a construction worker dodges the oncoming van by jumping to the left. In the next shot, he's shown jumping to the right. (01:24:40)
Continuity mistake: In the chase where Mike and Marcus are chasing the mortuary van with the dead bodies in it, the doors at the back go from being open to being closed when the van screeches round a corner, then to open again on the straight. (01:26:55)
Continuity mistake: Just before Mike smashes the car into the building, after chasing the morturary van across town, there is one quick shot where the windscreen doesn't have any bullet holes in it, despite there being three holes in it just prior to this. (01:27:10)
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Marcus go to Captain Howard's house after they have visited the morgue, Marcus is tripping on x and drinks the water out of a vase of flowers. He drinks pretty much all the water, but when he puts the vase back down on the table, it is full again. (01:50:10)
Continuity mistake: When Tapia is giving the mural artist a dressing-down, his daughter has a book in one hand for most of the scene, but when the shot changes to one from above Tapia and his daughter, the book changes to the other hand. (02:03:15)
Continuity mistake: When the good guys steer the small robot vehicle underneath the bad guys' car, there is a shot without the robot under the car, but in the next shot it is there again. (02:05:50)
Continuity mistake: In the final shoot out Mike is wearing Oakley M-frames with a clear lens, but the lens shape changes three times during the course of the fight, from the sweep lens, to the strike lens, to the heater lens. (02:07:25)
Continuity mistake: Shortly before reaching Guantanamo Base, the Hummer's front bumper is damaged and its right half is dangling almost at ground level. When the soldiers start shooting and the Hummer stops, the bumper is almost back to its normal position before being blown off. (02:09:35 - 02:10:20)
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Marcus are being chased in the Hummer, the windshield gets cracked. During the entire scene the windshield goes from being cracked, to being new again, to being cracked, etc. (02:11:20 - 02:16:20)
Continuity mistake: When Mike is carrying out Plan B and the house explodes, in the far bottom right you can see the Hummer drive away, but in the next shot it's driving out of the garage. (02:11:25)
Continuity mistake: In the final chase scene, the yellow Hummer starts out with an open sunroof. As it barrels through the shantytown, interior shots of the Hummer show it with a large overhead bank of storage compartments, while overhead shots show the sunroof. When the chase finally reaches Gitmo, the Hummer once again is shown with an open sunroof. (02:11:50 - 02:12:55)
Continuity mistake: During the chase down the hill, through the shanty town, the bad guy's blue Land Rover's hood is shown smashed and bent upwards several times, but when they emerge at the bottom it is perfectly normal, and in the latched down position. (02:12:30 - 02:16:30)
Continuity mistake: When Mike is driving the yellow Hummer through the shanty town at the end, the side-view mirrors are broken off several times. When the car comes to a rest the mirrors are intact. (02:13:25 - 02:16:10)
Continuity mistake: After driving through the shanty village, the cracks in the Humvee's window disappear. (02:13:40 - 02:14:55)
Continuity mistake: In the final steeplechase scene, with the Hummer and the truck barrelling through the drug-shacks, you can see the Hummer hit the same shack, with a black barrel sitting on top of it, 3 times (at least). Twice from the same angle, and once from another. (02:14:30)
Continuity mistake: In the chase scene with Syd and Lowry, Lowry's Ferrari has silver brake calipers in a close up shot, but in a following close up they are a different style and red. The rims are entirely different as well. The scene is filmed with two different Ferraris. The original car is a 575M (red calipers), the other a 550 (silver calipers).
Continuity mistake: After the pool incident, Mike's face appears in shade or full sun depending on the angle.
Answer: He was looking through a tiny mirror he was holding in his hand.