Continuity mistake: In the opening shot at the breakfast table, there is a large cereal box and a carton of milk on the right side of the table, in front of two salt-n-pepper shakers. But during the scene it continues to swap to an angle behind the two shakers - but now the cereal box and milk carton have vanished, so as not to block the view for this angled shot. (00:12:30)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning they are on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Later they are aboard the the U.S.S. Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and end up on the U.S.S. Nimitz (CVN-68), yet the personnel are the same aboard all three ships.
Continuity mistake: When Ice Cube is running out from jail, he kicks out the ventilator and climbs up the roof. Next shot from far, the ventilator is in its place. (00:11:10)
Continuity mistake: When Tyler is resuscitating Katherine he cuts and then rips her swim suit down to her belly button, but in the next shot when she is climbing up the cliff the cut is only up to her breast bone and has a zip on it.
Continuity mistake: When Danny meets Sam the second time he is bleeding on the floor. When he falls to the floor the amount of blood on it differs between the shots. (00:26:55)
Continuity mistake: In the last scene of the shoot-out, watch as the blood pattern changes on Baby's left cheek and lip area.
Continuity mistake: When the Seagrass is attacked, the two girls are thrown through the cabin's rear windows, landing on the outside deck. When the boat's owner finds it, a camera circles the Seagrass from a distance and the rear windows are intact. When he and Elizabeth board the boat, the windows are again broken. (00:26:40 - 00:42:15)
Continuity mistake: Right after the beginning credits, Jacques the chef walks through the door holding a plate of food with both hands. When the shot changes, he is walking through the door but is now holding the plate of food with one hand and has a fork in the other and has just taken a bite.
Continuity mistake: During the taxi chase at the beginning of the movie, the damage done to both cars changes between certain shots.
Continuity mistake: In the airport scene Scott Caan introduces his new "girl" to Paul Walker and Jessica Alba. In the background behind Paul you see a long-haired brunette wearing a strapless shirt walk out of the terminal and continue past the camera. The shot changes to a wide angle of the four main characters, and a second or so after the change you see the same brunette come out of the terminal again.
Continuity mistake: Towards the end, as Willis and Pollack drive the van, Willis is seen inserting the magazines in two handguns. The next scene shows hims putting the second gun on the center console, it has no magazine in it.
Continuity mistake: When detective Connors and his partner enter Gina's apartment, Connors is at first holding his gun with both hands, but in the next shot, he is holding it with just his right hand.
Continuity mistake: When DeMarco lifts his glass to look at Elektra you can see there's no meniscus where the liquid hits the glass. When it cuts to a close-up of the glass there now is. (00:05:55)
Continuity mistake: There is blood on Samantha's gloved hand when she presses the keypad, but there is no blood on the keypad after she removes her hand.
Continuity mistake: When Choco and Ed get into a fight in the hotel room, Choco puts a gun to Ed's face and pulls the hammer back of the revolver. Ed backs away and it shows Choco pulling the hammer back a 2nd time. You can hear the click of the hammer both times.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where The Thing and Human Torch are arguing in the lobby you can see in one scene the door leading to the outside with people around it Then, when Invisible Woman comes, Human Torch heads out through a different door with nobody around. (01:11:30)
Continuity mistake: The name on Travis' helmet switches between 'Ryer' to 'Travis' several times throughout the movie.
Continuity mistake: After Perry and Harry leave the lake with the girl in the trunk, the headrests are missing from the front seats, but when the shot cuts to them arriving at Harry's hotel, they reappear.
Continuity mistake: The outline of the heart the little girl drew on the window change from when she drew it to when Jodi Foster breathes on it. This has nothing to do with the inside/outside shot of the heart. (00:14:55 - 00:50:20)
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the baby is peeing on Tim, in one shot his hair is wet, in the next it's dry and in the next shot it goes back to wet again.
Suggested correction: The mistakes are based upon the viewer misinterpreting assignment patches that the crew wear on their jackets. The patches reveal the ships named as "mistakes" but are actually where a crew member previously served. The ship's intercom is the only reliable source that the ship is the USS Abraham Lincoln.
The hull number on the flight deck absolutely changes from the Lincoln to the Carl Vinson during parts of the movie.