Visible crew/equipment: The remote controlled camera is visible in the scene where the truck full of the horsemen is pulling into the garage. Look as the camera pans down and we see the top of the van. The camera looks like a box attached to some poles. (01:41:55)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel reveals the case containing the card to Walter, his fingers are all bent and spread apart. When the shot cuts, his fingers are straight and close together. (01:43:25)
Continuity mistake: When Walter removes the card from the case after Daniel gives it to him, there is a close-up of the card in his hand. His hand is raised so that the palm of his hand is facing towards him. But in the next shot, his hand has turned around with the dorsal side of his hand facing towards him. (01:43:30)
Continuity mistake: After thinking they have thrown the Horsemen off the plane, Tressler peels off the label to the bottle that he and Walter are drinking from and finds the tarot card on it. He is holding the bottle by the bottom when he peels the label, but when he hands the bottle to Walter in the next shot, he is holding the bottle by the top. (01:46:40)
Revealing mistake: When the Horsemen are on the Thames after exposing Walter and Tressler, after Daniel introduces Dylan to the crowd as their leader, there is a shot of Daniel patting Dylan on the back. The shot then cuts to one of the crowds cheering. In this shot, three extras at the front of the crowd can be seen briefly looking at the camera as it passes by. The first is a man in a black coat, red scarf and holding a green glow stick, standing to the right of shot. The second is a woman in glasses standing beside the man. The third is a woman standing to the left of shot wearing a white hat. (01:48:50)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan shows Natalie the drive containing all of Walter and Tressler's dealings, in the shot focusing on Natalie, he can be seen closing the fingers in his left hand into a fist. When the shot cuts to focus on Dylan, the fingers in his left hand are not closed into a fist. (01:52:55)
Continuity mistake: When Agent Cowan is asking the FBI director what happened, she says that they are gone and tells the man beside to come with her. She and the man then start walking, with the FBI director walking a couple of feet ahead of the man. In the next shot, the man is still behind her, but suddenly slightly closer. (01:53:50)
Continuity mistake: When Dylan comes across a picture of his father, in the shot focusing on the picture, he places his hand on the top left-hand corner of the picture frame. When the shot cuts to focus on Dylan, his hand is no longer touching the top left-hand corner of the picture frame. (01:55:13)
Continuity mistake: At the Royal Greenwich Observatory, when Dylan picks up the picture of his father and Thaddeus, he grabs the picture holding the bottom of the left hand side, but in the next shot, he is suddenly holding the picture much further up along the side. (01:55:25)
Continuity mistake: When Thaddeus is speaking to Dylan at the observatory, in the shot where Thaddeus says "You had let go of your thirty vendetta against me, for your Horsemen," Dylan is shown standing upright. In the next shot, his head is tilted to the left. (01:56:50)
Plot hole: Prior to the final show, when the horsemen are performing separately at different locations in London. [Scene X] Jack is busy with his card swap trick. While others are doing their tricks too, [Scene Y] McKinney is believed to be tricked once again by his face sharing brother at another location... Dylan gets a call and then he calls everyone to wrap up and meet somewhere. [Scene Z] Jack also wraps up and leaves the place... OK. Later after the expose in final show McKinney tells the story about how Jack successfully hypnotized his brother [in the Scene Y]. How could Jack be at two different locations at the same time? He was performing somewhere else when he did hypnotism at another location and then wraps up his trick back where he started.
Factual error: When it's 00:00 on January 1st, it's not night in Sydney, it's 11 AM. When they 'reveal' stuff at the end of the movie, and they show that things happen exactly at 00:00 in the night in London, it can't possibly be dark in Sydney, Australia.
Suggested correction: It shows that Sydney is at dusk and is becoming dark, so around 5pm-6pm-ish, not 11am during the day.
Factual error: The movie shows the FBI operating in London in order to capture the Horsemen. The FBI does not have jurisdiction to operate outside the United States, although they can act with agencies in other countries.
Factual error: When Lula is performing her dove tricks in London she's standing by Cutty Sark, a historical ship museum in Greenwich. Greenwich is south of Thames river. When Walter and his company are showing the positions of the Horsemen on the map of London all of them are shown north of the Thames.
Factual error: After his show Atlas reveals he did his rain trick using rain machines and strobe lights. While this is technically correct it only makes the rain appear to stop, not prevent it from falling. But during his show when the rain is "stopped" we see no splashes on the ground or on people who put down their umbrellas.
Continuity mistake: In the first Now You See Me, Dylan said before his father got into the safe that was dropped into the river he gave Dylan his watch to hold so he could count the seconds until he escaped, but in Now You See Me 2 there's a flashback that showed what happened before his father got into the safe and he does not give him his watch. Instead it shows Dylan and his father both with a watch and synchronizing them together.
