Corrected entry: When Desmond Elden is shot in the head in the garage of the ballpark, the SWAT member pulls the charging handle of the rifle which wastes a round that hasn't been used. Even if he ran out of ammo he would not have to pull the charging handle but simply slap the bolt release on the side of the rifle after changing magazines.
Corrected entry: Near the end, when Doug drives the MBTA Bus to the train station and then boards the train, he is actually at the Anderson Woburn station north of Boston, where the trains only run to the north of Boston and not south, such as to Florida.
Correction: Since it's never stated he's going directly to Florida, this isn't a mistake. To avoid capture he will most likely take routes in multiple directions to hide his final destination.
Corrected entry: Throughout the entire movie, Blake Lively's, character is known as "Krista" Coughlin. Once the cop calls in her DUI, it's called in as "Coughlin, Christina."
Correction: Krista could easily be a shortened version of her full name she prefers to go by. I go by Jon to everyone I know, but my given name is Jonathan.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Doug gives Claire the necklace, she calls him Ben.
Correction: She does not call him Ben she does in fact say Doug.
Corrected entry: Krista was never given the details of the Fenway Park robbery, how could she have shared them with special agent Frawley?
Correction: Her brother helped plan the heist. She could have learned about it from him.
Why would they trust that info to an addict?
They wouldn't necessarily trust her with that info. She could have overheard her brother on the phone mention "the Fenway job." Alternatively, Jem could have told her that Doug planned to leave Boston after the heist, and since neither of them would have been happy about that prospect, she might have pried out of him where the next job was so she could confront Doug about his plans to leave.
I always wondered that too. No way anyone would tell that junkie ho anything. All she knew was Doug was going away after, but not after robbing Fenway. Cops were all over the place and I always wondered how. Her brother doubt it, the florist doubt it, Doug doubt it so how did she tip the FBI off? Who told her? Definitely a mistake in movie, I guess you can assume certain people may have told her but why? The more people who know the odds of you getting caught increase.
Corrected entry: There is no such company as "Boston Ambulance" (as seen on the ambulance and uniforms in the park scene). The city is serviced by Boston EMS, which also doesn't use any of the converted van-style ambulances.
Correction: Because this is a fictional film, and not being billed as a documentary, I don't see how this qualifies as a mistake. In the Boston of the movie, Boston Ambulance IS a company, and it doesn't change throughout the film.
Are there any mistakes that couldn't be excused by the movie taking place in a fictional world?
Yes, and it depends entirely on the type of world a given movie is set in. This movie is set in the real world, and in the real world, a company called Boston Ambulance could in fact exist. Therefore, artistic license dictates that this isn't a mistake. If this same movie showed the sun rising in the west and setting in the east, that would be a mistake, because despite being a work of fiction, it is contrary to the real-world setting the film establishes.
The flower shop in Charlestown isn't real either, does that make it a mistake? There are fictional companies and people in all movies, that doesn't make them mistakes.
Correction: Not necessarily. It's entirely possible that the rifle jammed and the trooper pulled the charging handle to clear it. Unless you can see from the side that the bolt is open or closed, this mistake can't be confirmed.
Grumpy Scot