Continuity mistake: Holding Ammar down, Dan tells Maya to grab the bucket. Her being uneasy about the whole situation, she begins walking towards it, but is nervously fidgeting with her shirt like she's trying to button it up. Then the shot changes angles and suddenly her arms are crossed and still. (00:07:45)
Continuity mistake: As the guy in the car is driving into the base, Jessica excitedly runs to a dirt road and pulls out her phone to text Maya. The side shot shows the antenna is extended. It cuts to a view by her shoulder and suddenly the antenna is pushed in. (00:58:25)
Continuity mistake: When Dan is questioning Ammar about the Saudi Group, he holds up a photograph. Between shots, his hand jumps from the top of the picture to the bottom. He also changes from holding his arm out to the side to up close to his face. (00:06:40)
Continuity mistake: The CIA team are in Pakistan in a van to search for a telephone signal, and are blocked by two guys on bikes at front and a car behind. Notice that one of the bikes is a TVS Apache bike, but when those guys blocking the CIA team leave, they leave on different bikes. (01:23:25 - 01:25:05)
Continuity mistake: As the movie starts, Ammar is being tortured and questioned. The men drag him to the middle of the room and begin tying his arms up. The shot from behind Ammar when they finish show that the ropes are holding his arms high enough where his shoulders are up, with his arms making a Y shape over his head. It then switches to show security camera footage of Ammar from the front as Dan is watching. This view shows that Ammar's arms are not held as high, with his shoulders slumped and his arms bent at the elbows with his forearms held up, making him have a W shape instead of a Y. (00:03:15)
Continuity mistake: After Ammar says he won't talk, Dan and the masked man drag him to the ground onto some mats. Dan then gags Ammar's mouth with a wet cloth of some sort. The shot cuts and suddenly Ammar is screaming with nothing in his mouth. (00:07:35)
Continuity mistake: When Dan begins to interrogate Ammar he puts on black rubber gloves. The gloves are last seen when he undoes the ropes holding Ammar. When the scene cuts, he is not wearing them and they are suddenly in his back pocket. (00:07:20)
Continuity mistake: After Bin Laden is killed, the Seals confirm his identity asking a woman who the man is. She lies saying it's Noori Hasan. When she does, her left arm swaps from lowered to raised between shots. (02:16:55)
Continuity mistake: In the first scene when Dan is interrogating the terrorist, he asks Maya to fill a plastic jug for waterboarding. She fills it, then in the next shot when Maya hands the jug to Dan, there is a different amount of water in it. (00:08:00)
Continuity mistake: When Abrar is killed he has a long streak of blood on his shoulder and faces his wife. A shot later the blood is gone and he is facing the opposite side. (02:09:50)
Continuity mistake: When Dan approaches a higher CIA agent saying he needs "A couple hundred thousand bucks", the other guy gets up and walks to a cabinet to put his prayer rug in it. It cuts to Dan, and the reflection in the glass of the world map behind him shows the guy with the rug repeating the action of putting away his rug. (01:10:05)
Continuity mistake: Maya is with a translator questioning a guy that is handcuffed to a table. The translator pushes a picture to the man who picks it up and then lies it down. He identifies the man as Abu Ahmed and taps the picture with his finger on his left hand. The shot cuts to a close up, and suddenly his left hand is up on the bar with fingers fidgeting. (00:31:40)
Continuity mistake: When Bin Laden is first shot, they show a close up of him and the Team leader shoots him in the upper chest close to his neck several times. He gets on Coms and says "We have a possible jackpot" and shoots him again in the high upper body. After he takes some pictures you can see in the photos that Bin Laden is only shot twice near the belly button and below his left nipple and of course in the head, but not 2 or 3 times where the team leader shot him in the upper chest.
Chosen answer: Most likely to conceal her naturally bright red hair. If that fact is known, it would make it easier for the enemy to identify and target her, either for surveillance, to be kidnapped, killed, etc.
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