When the Secret Service agents are running after the Spanish cop, they are running and shouting with their weapons waving in the air, yet the group of Spanish police that they pass don't try to challenge them. [Spanish local police don't carry guns, so they are unlikely to challenge several secret service agents who do have them.]
Vantage Point (2008) - 11 corrections
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When the Secret Service agents are running after the Spanish cop, they are running and shouting with their weapons waving in the air, yet the group of Spanish police that they pass don't try to challenge them. [Spanish local police don't carry guns, so they are unlikely to challenge several secret service agents who do have them.]
The blue car that is driven by Barnes is a Chevrolet Astra (the Chevrolet badging is prominent several times). The film is set in Spain, and Chevrolet do not make nor import/export the Astra to Spain: Opel are the sole GM manufacturer of the Astra in Spain, and similarly Vauxhall are the sole manufacturer of the Astra in the UK. [Chevrolet may not have exported it to Spain, but that doesn't preclude someone from importing it themselves. We have a number of right hand drive cars from Japan in the region I live, none which were officially built, or exported to Canada from the manufacturers.] During the car chase scene, the Chevrolet Astra (blue car) repeatedly collides with other vehicles and objects on the front end, yet the airbags don't deploy. [Airbags don't always react to crashes, since the car could go too fast for it to deploy, and considering the speed Barnes was in, his speed was too fast for the airbags to deploy. Or simply the airbag was defective, it is commonly reported that airbags have failed to deploy during accidents.]
It stretches credibility that the little girl wanders quite far away from the plaza and ends up on a busy road, and her mother just happens to be nearby. [All movies stretch credibility - this is by no means a mistake.] When Barnes first gets into the Chevrolet Astra (blue car), he pursues the police car but never changes from first gear, as he has one hand on the steering wheel and the other holding his phone to his ear. [Just because he is driving and using his cell phone and didn't change gears doesn't in any way mean that's a mistake. The character is either too busy multitasking or has other thoughts racing through his head.] This one has been 'corrected' but the person 'correcting' the mistake didn't watch the movie properly. Barnes at NO point knows that the President has been abducted, and at NO point do HQ/Control ever inform him either, because quite early in the movie, Javier has already taken out HQ/Control as evidenced by Barnes repeated calls over the radio going unanswered. The mistake still stands, at the end of the movie Barnes asks Matthew Foxs character "where is the President", which is a plot hole because he was never told he was abducted. [I just saw the film yesterday, so it's fresh in my mind. Barnes definitely learns of POTUS' abduction; you have to listen for it, but it's there. And it's not unreasonable to think that Secret Service has set up more than one Control outpost as a contingency for situations like this; after all, they have to be prepared for *any* threat to the president.] Corrected by Cubs Fan The Spanish terrorist leader has all of his bombing commands written in English on his PDA. He's Spanish, and would write in his own language. [It's possible this was a conscious decision by the filmmakers, to make it easier for non-Spanish speaking movie-goers to understand.] [Not necessarily. My ex wife was Russian, but anything she did on a computer was written/typed in English when it related to business.] Towards the end of the film, Dennis Quaid asks Matthew Fox "Where is the President?" However, it was earlier represented that Quaid did not know that a body double was being used, and he would not have known that the real president had been kidnapped because he did not go back to the hotel after the mayhem in the square. [At one point during the chase scene, Barnes is on the phone with HQ and is told the president has been abducted.] Corrected by Cubs Fan The Spanish cop and the Secret Service agents are obviously physically fit when they do the chase on foot. Forrest Whitaker's character isn't, yet appears to easily keep up. [We know nothing of Forrest Whitaker's character's fitness level. Opinions are not movie mistakes.] Forrest Whittaker and the Secret Service agents have all been running quite a distance to get to the underpass where the Spanish cop gets shot, yet the little girl appears soon after in the same area. She would have had to have been an Olympic sprinter to be there at the same time. [He took her to a police officer who was right next to the bridge and he watched the bad guys for a couple of minutes which is more than enough time for a child to walk 100 yards.] The entire film follows a series of events which begin at noon. However, in at least one shot of the plaza, a large clock at the top of a building reads 10:10. [The clock could be broken. The clock in the city hall here has been broken for about 20 years, and reads 12:05 all the time.]