Continuity mistake: When we see Aimée painting for the first time she is sitting at the kitchen table. When the camera cuts to a close-up of the picture it's quite different from the one in the wide shot. (00:23:20)
Continuity mistake: When Tom plays checkers with Bill and makes his last, winning move, there's a cut to a wide angle where the pieces on the board are arranged differently. (00:08:20)
Continuity mistake: The position of the cars outside the window changes when Sébastien first meets Nathalie in the restaurant.
Continuity mistake: When Vermeer picks out earrings for his wife to wear, he selects two pearl earrings (same one later found on Griet). When he hands them to his wife, he gives them both to her, however when you look at Vermeer in the next shot he is holding one of the earrings.
Continuity mistake: When Marie is in the back of the van taking the chains of Alex, Alex picks up the knife and it is obviously bent. Once the chains are off and Alex puts the knife up to Marie to defend herself the blade is straight, and stays that way even when "the killer" takes it out of his chest.
Continuity mistake: (On the DVD) In the scene where Julianne took the key off the necklace rope of Mitch, in the next several shots you will see Julianne hold a key with the rope still attached.
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film when Ray and Hilda are having a conversation, Ray's white undershirt alternates between being seen and being hidden under his shirt (on his shoulder).
Continuity mistake: In a party scene about 45 minutes into the movie there are numerous shots of the crowd. Over a several minute period one character was shown in at least four shots while smoking a cigarette in a cigarette holder. In all shots the partially smoked cigarette is the exact same length. Either they kept using the same clip or the cigarette was not lit.
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the film, the filthy, mud-covered US convoy mistakenly enters a town. About the time they decide to turn around, their vehicles suddenly appear all clean and shiny. Then, the mud returns again.
Continuity mistake: When Shintaro is shot in his leg you see him lying on the football and there is no blood on the ball. Then it cuts for a brief second to another kid, then back and now the ball is suddenly covered in blood. (00:21:20)
Continuity mistake: One scene is captioned as being the end of the summer, and the kids are going back home for school. The next caption, about ten minutes after that scene, tells us that it is six months later, and also Christmas. But Christmas is just three months after the end of the summer, so either the caption is partially wrong, or the few intervening scenes carried us from September to the following June without even seeing the intervening holiday season, and then the caption was meant to jump us by an additional six months.
Continuity mistake: In the last 30 minutes of the movie, Christina Applegate's character appears to be wearing a black rope necklace tied in the front with the ends draping down the front of her chest. When they arrive at the motel, the necklace changes to a black scarf. In the closeup you can see the sheer material has changed, with the ends of the scarf no longer visible. After she is locked in the bathroom, and escapes, the rope is back, tied in the front. When she gets in a car and is pulled over by the cop, the scarf is back.
Continuity mistake: Look at the scene where Chanel and her mom are putting on face cream. In the wide shot, Chanel only has cream on her chin, cheeks and forehead. Her mom hasn't applied the cream. In the close-up (when her mom says that they might be moving to Paris), there's cream all over their faces.
Continuity mistake: When Dan has found the surviving guy from the plane crash, he's wearing rubber medical gloves while examining him for injuries. In the next shot, he's walking to pick up the foam tub with the liver for his son but he's not wearing gloves. In the following shot, he's wearing gloves again. (00:26:25)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel Craig stays out late and, finally, comes home to his wife, he takes his tie off, but doesn't undo the top button of his shirt, but that button, suddenly, is undone.
Continuity mistake: Near the start when they are jumping out of a helicopter with scuba gear, they show one guy in an orange wetsuit with scuba gear and 1 yellow oxygen tank standing at the door about to jump, then in the next shot show a person in an all black wetsuit sitting on the edge and jumping with no scuba gear and no oxygen tank, then in the next shot where the guy is hitting the water, they show a person in a gray wetsuit with 2 red oxygen tanks.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, The Statement is being typed on a manual typewriter and the name Pierre Brossard is underlined except for the letter P. The next time we see The Statement, the letter P is now underlined. There is only one copy.
Continuity mistake: When John Gacy hands a joint to the young guy he's picked up on the corner, the joint is nearly finished. When the young guy hands it back, it's almost a full joint.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Mark return to the rooftop following the "Chris R." sequence, we see Johnny run into frame, and Claudette is standing by herself to the side of the others. Mark is not on the roof yet. Immediately after during the next few shots, Mark suddenly appears behind Claudette, and even has his hands on her shoulders.
Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Oh Dae Su is fighting with Lee Woo Jin's bodyguard Mr. Han, the latter flips Dae Su repeatedly until Dae Su very swiftly jabs Han in the ear with a pair of scissors, the blades of which are pointing upward from his fist. Han flips Dae Su one more time and that's when he feels the injury. He looks down on Dae Su and spots the scissors on his hand, but this time the blades are pointing downward from his fist.