War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds (2025)

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Continuity mistake: When Sandra calls Will about the storms, she says, "Hey, take a look at this," and then her camera feed becomes smaller to show him the storm. Will's position doesn't change, but in that moment, there is a jump cut with Sandra, her arms being extended to then down. A jump cut in a supposedly live call. (00:02:45)

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Continuity mistake: While Will is looking at the new storm clouds on Sandra's feed, he gets a message from the DHS director. On this message, it is displayed as "DHS Dir. Briggs"; then when he pulls it up, suddenly the title now reads as "DHS Director Briggs", with Director no longer abbreviated to "Dir.". (00:03:15)

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Factual error: When tracing the Disruptor's YouTube post, the on-screen map of Chicago shows impossible or incorrect IP addresses. Examples include 10.103.141.39 (a private IP, never on the public internet) and 239.204.2.121 (a multicast address). Many others would geolocate to other countries or cloud hosts, not downtown Chicago. In reality, law enforcement cannot instantly pull exact YouTube IP data without Google's cooperation. (00:04:00)

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Factual error: The "Visa Alert" flags Faith's café purchase as suspicious and somehow gives the Will an instant live feed from inside the café along with a detailed analysis of her order. In reality, card alerts don't grant third parties immediate access to private CCTV footage or itemised nutritional breakdowns, making the scene highly unrealistic. How does him tapping into a café camera give him exact details of what the cashier is handing Faith from her order? (00:04:30)

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Factual error: A WhatsApp conversation between Will and Faith is shown on the computer, but the interface is inaccurate. The contact's status says "last seen recently," wording used by Telegram, not WhatsApp, which normally gives an exact time or hides it entirely. Additionally, the chat bubbles lack the usual timestamps and read receipt checkmarks that WhatsApp displays, making the on-screen version an incorrect depiction of the app. (00:04:35)

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Factual error: Right towards the start, Will opens up the camera feed around several locations in Washington DC and in the surrounding areas. Six camera feeds pop up, but the information on them is all lazy copy-paste. They all say Location: Washington DC. Yet the first camera shows the Pentagon, which is in Arlington VA, not Washington DC. Then the sixth camera shows the NSA Headquarters, which is in Fort Meade, Maryland, not DC. Also, all six cameras have the same IP address. Not possible with how it's set up.

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Character mistake: The Georgetown University camera feed for "Faith" lists irrelevant personal info like "Mark Goodman - Baby Daddy" alongside "Biomedical Research," while showing "Threat Analysis - Unclear." If she's not flagged as a threat, why is she being tracked at all? And why is gossip-level relationship info in an intel overlay?

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William Radford: You risked all of our lives just to spy on people's Amazon carts! (00:56:10)

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Trivia: When Director Briggs first sends Will a message, Will gets an alert for a new YouTube upload from Disruptor. If you put the YouTube link shown on screen into your browser, it leads to an unlisted video that is nothing but a black screen for a minute and five seconds. (00:03:25)

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