Factual error: As Sarah is being chased toward the mine by "Harry" she is unable to open a door and is trapped as Harry approaches. The shadow of Harry cast on the wall gets bigger as he gets closer to her. If Harry were walking in front of the light source casting his shadow, his shadow would get smaller as he walked further away from the light source and closer to Sarah. (01:40:00 - 01:41:30)
Factual error: If, as the film proposes, all plant life is dead, then human life would have soon followed it. Since plants filter carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then a lack of plants would allow for the increase of that CO2. And since the the unknown disaster appears to have been the result of a super volcano, the additional CO2 would be accompanied by the gases from the volcano making the atmosphere even more toxic.
Factual error: When Bree hits the windshield of the car after being thrown out of the window by Jason, the windshield smashes like normal glass. However windshields do not shatter like this. (01:15:20)
Factual error: The scene where Princess and Steven are in Chrome Skull's truck, they are trying to dial 911. They are denied access because the phone is password protected. This would never happen. Even though there is a lock on the phone, it would be automatically deactivated for 911 calls. When you lock your cell phone to protect it from unwanted usage, the phone will deny all usage EXCEPT 911 calls.
Factual error: In the scene where Anna visits Campbell for the first time, he looks at her medical records, and in the close up it shows Anna's birth date as 05/16/1990, but in the scene where Kate is showing her mother the scrapbook she's made it contains a picture which shows that Kate's birth date is 08/22/1990, which makes Anna somehow 3 months older than her supposedly elder sister.
Factual error: Kevin and his buddies go to graduation in Army dress. While the ribbons displayed are hard to identify, several things are sure. They don't have a Washington National Guard ribbon, so they're regulars, and they have no Middle East service ribbons. So just where did they acquire so much fruit salad?
Factual error: In the scene where Patrick meets with the shrink and reveals he's a genius, he multiplies 548 x 297, and comes up with the answer of 16,765. In actual fact, the answer is 16,756. (00:07:45)
Factual error: When Esposito revisits the murder scene, he asks Morales whether he would prefer the culprit to receive the death penalty. Morales answers that he would not, claiming that to doze off and fall asleep (hinting at execution by lethal injection) would be too good for the man who raped and brutally murdered his wife. Execution by injection has never been practiced in Argentina - where the last execution was carried out in 1916, by shooting - and was legally enacted only in 1977 and practiced the first time in 1982 (in both cases by the state of Texas). Thus, it seems anachronistic that anyone would equate the method with capital punishment in 1974, when the scene is set. (00:24:00)
Factual error: The part of the movie where they have had the morning updates at the police station, Richard Gere later walks on the sidewalk and stares deliberately at a pair of Muslims praying. The sun is shining on the backs of the Muslims heads indicating that they are facing west even though Mecca would be off to a much more easterly direction from Brooklyn.
Factual error: Near the end, no one in the hall realizes that a real diamond cannot be destroyed by a bullet. Also, even if it was a fake, it couldn't be blown to smithereens with a single gunshot.
Factual error: It seems unlikely Zoe could take a knife to the head which pierced her brain and lived without consequences. She would've probably died or have a permanent injury like frontal lobe epilepsy.
Factual error: There is a poster of Shaun Cassidy hanging on Susie's bedroom door - not only was Sean Cassidy only 15 years old at the time, but he hadn't even had a hit single yet.
Suggested correction: If you're talking about the poster visible at the 16-minute mark, I'm pretty sure that is Shaun's half-brother David Cassidy who was at the height of his popularity in 1973.
It's definitely David Cassidy.
Factual error: At 01:29:08 we see Carys lying despondent on the couch in her living room surrounded by balled up tissues, empty food containers/soda cans and trash - all the signs of going through a bad break up. She gets up to answer the door for her mom, who has brought by a plate of cookies. Carys sits on the couch again, looks down, looks up, and by 1:29:40 the entire room is clean; we see her mom fluffing a pillow. There is no way her mom could have cleaned the living room in less than 32 seconds.
Factual error: The credits list several of the characters as "Arab." But the film is set in Afghanistan and the Afghans are not Arabs.
Factual error: The briefcase containing $1 million was full of $100 bill straps, two columns by six straps or $120k per layer. Eight layers would have been 4 inches tall, not including the four straps left over. The top and bottom portions of the case were equal depth and only the bottom half was full. The case would have had to be approximately 8 inches deep, which it evidently was not, to hold $1 million.
Factual error: When the Lincoln Continental Convertible was rolling backwards down the hill, Nick put his hands on the trunk to try to stop it. A car, especially one weighing 5,000 - 6,000 #, would easily knock over a person and possibly cause serious bodily injury (even death). Nick's attempt to stop the car by holding onto the driver's door handle would also be futile and potentially dangerous. (00:37:47)
Factual error: When Ben goes to Anna's yoga class, we see the very end of the class. Everyone is seated upright, cross-legged. In real life, yoga classes always end in savasanah, a pose where you lie on your back and breathe to take in all that the body/mind just did. They just had the actors seated upright to show them making eyes at each other.
Factual error: Jenny would not have received a letter telling her she had been successful in applying to Oxford University as shown at the end of the film. As an undergraduate she would have received a letter from one of the Oxford colleges to which she had applied informing her she had been accepted to that college.
Factual error: In the scene near the start of the film where Lai Lai gets off the train and looks at the card for the hotel it shows the first part of the postcode as 'M14' but the hotel is in Middlesbrough where postcodes start with 'TS' - M14 would be in Manchester.
Factual error: In the beginning during the gas station scene, the timeframe of the movie is supposed to be Sept 2003 but a number of late model (>2006) Ford, Subaru and Honda vehicles are seen driving by in the background.