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Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

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When Bryan meets his daughter in the restaurant and gets her a milkshake with three cherries, as the scene cuts from Bryan to his daughter and back, the whipped cream goes from being on top of the milkshake to melted and then back again to being on top. See more...

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It seems that the truck that hit Peter had enough time to see him standing there and therefore at least hit the brakes, but it was going at full speed. [Peter had just jumped off an overpass and into a busy street full of oncoming traffic. There's no way of knowing if the driver, who was hardly expecting a pedestrian to suddenly appear in front of his truck, actually saw Peter in time to react to the situation safely. Slamming on the brakes of a large truck in the middle of a busy highway is potentially quite dangerous.]
Edit Corrected by raywest
When Bryan rescues Kim on the boat he says "I told you I would come for you". Well, he never said that once in the movie. [Not those exact words perhaps, but the implication was strongly made, from him to her, that he intended to rescue her.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
When the security chief first sees Brian sneaking aboard the yacht, he quickly speaks to the owner in a foreign language that is translated in subtitles as "the girl's father wants her back". If you follow the sequence of events leading to this scene, the security chief has no way of knowing or reason to think that Brian in Kim's father. The scene where Brian kills the auctioneer has occurred only moments before. Kim is one of three girls being kidnapped, so the security chief should have said "one of the girls fathers wants her back." [He didn't say which girl is the man's daughter. He doesn't know. The statement he made is factually correct while still vague enough to be a reasonable assumption on his part. There is no mistake.]
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When the father is talking to the kidnapper, the kidnapper says 'good luck' and hangs up the phone. The sound is of a handset being hungup, but the daughter was using a mobile phone when talking to her father. [No its not, it's the sound of the mobile phone being smashed up as evidenced later on when Brian finds it.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight Time
When Brian is talking to the French cop, the radio /cell phone combination wouldn't work because while the cell phone would pick up Brian's transmissions to the radio, the radio wouldn't have been able to transmit the French cop's speech. Walkie-talkies of that type have a "push to talk" switch that must be depressed to transmit. Had Brian simply locked it in transmit mode it wouldn't have been able to relay his transmissions to it. [Incorrect. They can also be used with an open frequency, i.e. anyone who has a radio to that encrypted frequency can talk.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight
When Kim is kidnapped, she describes the man "Beard. Six feet. Tattoo right hand, moon and star." When Bryan listens the tape in the jet, she says, "Mustache. Six feet. Tattoo on right hand, moon and star. Dad!" [While on the jet, the recording says, "beard" every time it's replayed. Never once does it say "mustache".]
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In the scene on the boat, three girls are being led to the man identified as "the Sheik". When Neeson bursts into the room, only his daughter is in the room with "the Sheik", and the other two girls have disappeared (and are never seen again). [That's not a continuity mistake at all, simply that the Sheik intended to have his expensive 'trophy' first at the exclusion of the other two. The movie is all about Bryan trying to get his daughter back, the other girls are superfluous to the story.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight
When Bryan is looking through the photographs from the smashed cell phone, it shows his daughter in the airplane, then the picture that the spotter took of his daughter and her friend. But his daughter had her picture taken by her friend first, then the spotter asked if he could take a picture of both of them. That picture that just showed Bryan's daughter was missing. [Amanda could have easily deleted the photo either before handing it to have their picture taken or after, thinking a photo of them both would be better.]
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When his daughter is about to get taken, he plugs his cell phone to a recording device. Right after the kidnapping, he disconnects the phone to speak to the kidnapper, yet when the guy says "Good Luck", it gets recorded even though the device was no longer plugged in. [He disconnects the speaker the phone was connected too, not the recording device. The two devices were separate.]
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When Bryan is interrogating the guy in the chair, he removes his tie and tosses it away, the next scene shows him with it neatly tied around his neck, then the next scene he is tieless. [Taking a tie off and having it reappear and then disappear between "scenes" isn't a valid mistake, because he could have simply put the tie back on after the interrogation, then just taken it off again - this CAN occur between "scenes", since it is not an instantaneous change. If, however, the submitter meant to write "shots", which means it's an instant change, then please resubmit with the correct terminology. There is a big difference between "scene" and "shot". ]
Edit Corrected by lmao
When Kimi and her friend first meet Peter, his hair is poofy, kind of sticking up. When the taxi drops the three off, Peter's hair is matted down. [The taxi journey would be sufficiently long enough for Peter to have sorted out his hair. Not a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by GalahadFairlight