Eagle Eye (2008) - 18 mistakes

Revealing: When the Porsche Cayenne is lifted out of the water at the scrap yard then placed on the ground, if you look through the gap between the front passenger wheel you can see the engine is removed from it.

Factual error: There is a scene where an F-16 pilot was ejected by ARIA. This is impossible as the ejection systems in fighter aircraft are purposely non-electrical (to prevent failure due to loss of power or EMP), and are shielded and controlled by isolated pyrotechnics and manual levers/cables, etc.

Revealing: When Jerry jumps out of the building to escape the FBI, when he lands it does not look like Shia LaBeouf but a double.

Factual error: When they are arguing under the power lines, ARIA makes one of the power lines explode off the power line and kill someone. This is impossible as there is no way to pinpoint a surge of electricity to a single location like that. If anything were to happen at all during a surge a breaker or fuse would blow, however the wires would not snap and fall. Which brings me to the second point: there were no breakers or fuses where they were. Just to make it clear, no, those things holding up the wires on the power poles are just insulators keeping the wires from actually touching the power poles.

Factual error: The tunnel in which the reaper attack takes place is supposed to be one of the tunnels under the Mall. This tunnel however, with two-way traffic and support pillars along the tunnel walls, is unlike any traffic tunnel in Washington DC.

Factual error: There is no possible way to cause a power line to drop from its support pylons and hit a person on target. These wires are fastened extremely securely, designed to withstand all kinds of weather, and are not equipped with explosive charges to release them.

Factual error: At the end of the film, a news voice-over says that there are no named suspects in the attack on the Blair Tunnel. There is no Blair Tunnel in the DC area.

Continuity: When Jerry discovers the deliveries to his apartment and takes the gun out of its wrapper, in the first shot he's holding it quite loosely in his hand, then the angle changes and his fingers are wrapped tightly around the grip.

Continuity: At the beginning of the film when ARIA gives a 36% match to the terrorist being tracked, one of the Soldiers throws a small prop driven UAV to get visual identification. Before visual identification is attempted, the screen at the NMCC already states a 51% match BEFORE the visual identification is compiled by the computer and then told to the SECDEF. ARIA didn't change the match percentage until AFTER she ran the visual identification program.

Continuity: When the Porsche Cayenne is racing through the junk yard, in one shot the right headlamp is broken. In the next, it is fine again and then it's broken once more.

Factual error: There is no multi-towered interstate in Indianapolis. The interstate shown is the Los Angeles freeway outside of LAX. When the Air Force plane left Dayton, there was a shot of the mountains outside of the airport. There are no mountains near Dayton.

Factual error: The timeline of the movie is near the end of January 2009, as seen on cellphones throughout the movie. This would mean a new President would have been inaugurated only days before. Therefore, his address to Congress would not be called the State of the Union Address as this does not officially occur until the 2nd year of the Presidency.

Factual error: The Super computer causes the fire sprinklers to go off in a building. This is not possible at all. The only way to set off a fire sprinkler is by heating the fire sprinkler to about 160 degrees or by hitting it really hard. Just to make it clear, there are no electrical components connected to fire sprinklers by which someone or something can activate them remotely.

Factual error: At the end of the film, the shots from the security cameras in McPherson Square and Farragut West stations are not of DC Metro stations or trains. Also, the traffic camera is labeled "I-5 South". Interstate 5 is located on the West Coast, not in the DC area.

Continuity: When Agent Perez's helicopter takes off from "Chicago" after the recovery of the Cayenne, her helicopter has a California flag on its tail.

Factual error: Ethan Shaw is mentioned throughout the movie as graduating from the Air Force Academy, and also as a Lieutenant by other characters. When his brother Jerry Shaw is shown his brother's ID by ARIA (the eagle eye computer,) the ID shows Ethan Shaw as a SMSgt (Senior Master Sergeant). This is impossible by Air Force standards, even if he was a genius. It cannot be part of a fake cover as listing a 20-something year-old as a SMSgt would be so obviously fake as to be useless. No one in the Air Force would believe it and anyone competant enough to design ARIA and the infrastructure to accompany her would not make such a ridiculous mistake

Continuity: When Jerry ducks in front of a car to avoid the remote control plane in the tunnel, he ducks in front of a Dodge Avenger. When Jerry steps away from the front of the car, it is a Chrysler Sebring. He gets into this car and drives away. He is then seen racing to the US Capitol in a Dodge Avenger.

Revealing: When Agent Perez arrives at the Defense headquarters, there's a shot of a helicopter landing. The US Flag emblem near the top of the elevator is reversed, probably meaning that they flipped the shot.