Deliberate "mistake": When Layla is having babies and the first one comes out there is already a nappy on the baby.

Visible crew/equipment: When the police are leaving the motel, you can see a camera reflection in the S.W.A.T. van as it drives by.

Continuity: Right near the end of the movie when Irene is saying goodbye to Charlie, her makeup is a lot darker to when she is driving away in the car, it looks a lot lighter and rubbed off. When she is pulled over again by the police and gets out of the car her makeup is once again a lot darker.

Continuity: The blood comes flowing out of Charlie's hand before he gets his thumb shot off.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie and Irene push the car over the cliff, right after it goes over Charlie asks Irene if she grabbed a wallet off the dash. She says no. Later in the motel they are laying in bed and Charlie is sharing family pictures with Irene and they talk about carrying pictures in their wallets. Charlie's was at the bottom of the lake with the car. [The deleted scene on the DVD doesn't really help - in it Hank jumps off the cliff to get his wallet, and then Irene follows. However the movie shows Charlie and Irene looking down the 30 meter high cliff and walking away with dry clothes. Delete scenes can "disallow" a mistake only if they fill in plausible back story, rather than contradicting the "proper" movie directly.]

Continuity: When Irene and Charlie are in the water near the end, the clouds change between each shot.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie shoots the cow, he unloads a few shots into the cow's head, then tosses the gun aside about five feet to his right. A couple shots later, the gun is right next to him, almost directly beneath the cow's head.

Visible crew/equipment: When Charlie and Irene are driving Irene says 'He did save our lives'. After this it goes to Charlie. Here the boom mic can be seen in the top left of the window.

Factual error: In the flashback scene in 1982 when Charlie and Layla are on the picnic blanket, they're drinking Budweisers out of late 1990's bottles that came in a late 1990's six-pack.

Revealing: When Charlie shoots the cow there is no bloodshed at all, even though the cow is supposed to be alive.

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie, when Charlie and Shonté start arguing, Shonté takes his jacket off and throws it to one side. The jacket continually changes sides throughout the scene.

Continuity: The movie starts out in the present and then flashes back. The skinny trees in front of the house are tall in the beginning and in the flashback they are small. They grow a little more every time it's been a few years, but when they come back to the present, the trees are still only half grown in one shot. In the next, they are fully grown.

Visible crew/equipment: When Shonte Jr and the boys answer the door to the Colonel, you can see the camera and crew in the reflection of the door.

Continuity: Just as Charlie reaches Dickie and Irene on the bridge, Dickie is looking forward. In the next shot he is looking down and behind him.

Continuity: In the scene where Charlie shoots the cow, he had turned off the headlight of the motorcycle. After he shoots the cow the first time, the headlight is back on.

Revealing: After Charlie gets his thumb shot off by Dickey near the end, in most of the shots you can easily see that Charlie is bending his thumb behind the rest of his hand instead of computer graphics removing it.

Continuity: When Boshane and Peterson meet Irene at the police station Peterson's tie is folded below the knot. When the interrogate her right after the fold is gone, but it's back when Peterson gets killed.

Revealing: When the baby is pulled out of Layla, you can tell that it's not a newborn baby because he is missing his umbilical cord.

Revealing: Near the end of the movie when Irene falls off the bridge and Charlie follows, and when the boy's helicopter comes to save them, it is cloudy then a split second later sunny, then back again throughout the entire scene.

Continuity: In the scene where both Jim's characters are beating each other at the wheel of this red convertible, bad Jim throws good Jim out of the car which was doing some 30/40 mph in a straight line. In the next shot Jim is seen chasing the car on foot: the convertible is now doing no more than 7/10 mph and it's descending a hill after a sharp right-hand corner.