Continuity mistake: Tintin shows the ship's captain the Arumbayan idol in a package. In a close-up, Tintin is shown to have only opened the top third of the package. In the next shot, at least half of the package is opened.(00:20:55)
Continuity mistake: A villain throws his knife in the middle of a 50 on a target board. 2 shots later, he removes the knife from the edge of the 50.(00:14:05)
Continuity mistake: Two villains talk about Tintin and the parrot. One of them sharpens his knife with a sharpener, which changes from green to navy blue between shots.(00:09:15)
Continuity mistake: Thompson says "You mustn't overlook the obvious, Tintin". He has a pencil raised to his shoulder. Shot cuts and the pencil has been lowered towards his stomach.(00:03:40)
Continuity mistake: Tintin runs a bath. The cold tap is on the left and the hot tap is on the right. Yet as Tintin sits in the bath listening to the radio, the hot tap has moved to the left.(00:02:45)
Continuity mistake: When Frank and Marvin are being chased by the soldiers in Moldova, there are several explosions in the foreground. There is an explosion near some bushes in a side angle of them running. In the next shot, both the bushes and the explosion have vanished.(01:40:15)
Continuity mistake: The Vice President begins a speech at the Victory Fund Gala. Cooper, backstage, then exits the room. Before he walks over to the door after exiting the room, he has an ear piece in his right ear. The ear piece disappears when he walks through the door in the next shot.(01:23:05)
Continuity mistake: Victoria has lipstick on when she exits the car as the Victory Fund Gala begins. When she goes to the metal detector, the lipstick has vanished. Then it reappears as soon as she exits the metal detector.(01:21:30)
Continuity mistake: In the Russian Embassy, Frank meets up with Ivan. During this scene, Ivan opens a bottle of vodka. In the shot after Ivan says "As we get older, things seem less important", it is visible that the bottle is filled to the top. He then takes out two shot glasses and fills the two of them up with vodka for both him and Frank. When Igor says "To Igor. The Butcher", we can see that the level of vodka has gone down by a far smaller amount than two shots' worth.(00:45:10)
Continuity mistake: At the airport, Sarah says "She has a camera in her purse, we have to kill her?" As soon as the camera stops panning around, Marvin is visible in the far background holding the pig teddy with the pig's legs facing the two. The shot then cuts to a close-up of Marvin. In this close-up, the pig teddy's legs are now facing the opposite direction.(00:37:00)
Continuity mistake: When Frank meets Sarah in the flesh for the first time, she throws numerous items at him. When she picks up a candle holder and throws the candles at him, a third of one of the candles remains stuck to the holder. After Frank tells Sarah, that people are trying to kill them, Sarah replies "Why would anyone want to kill me?" In this shot, the third of the candle is currently on the right hand side of the candle holder. Then when Sarah says "Why?" after Frank says they've been listening to their conversations, the third of the candle is now on the left side of the candle holder.(00:12:05)
Continuity mistake: After Frank injects the assassin, the syringe injected into his neck is horizontal. However, when one of the assassins shoots a grenade inside, the same assassin that Frank injected now has the syringe in a vertical position. Frank never moved the syringe, nor could anyone else since they were dead.(00:08:00 - 00:09:30)
Continuity mistake: In the episode "The Wedding Party", the first two rooms on the second floor right of the stairs were 11 and 12. Yet in this episode, those two exact same rooms are now 5 and 6.(00:19:20)
Continuity mistake: When Haddock says "There they are" after the rescue, he is standing next to Professor Fossil and they are both standing at the end of the ship. As everyone starts cheering, they are standing somewhere near the middle of the ship and a scientist has suddenly appeared next to them.(00:20:30)
Continuity mistake: The pilot goes onto a raft and looks at Tintin at a 12 o'clock direction saying "I can't get any closer". In the next shot, he's looking at Tintin in a 3 o'clock direction.(00:19:20)