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Stupidity: The series relies on the fantasy that wealthy people with home security systems don't also have security cameras... and that the alarm systems - as well as the cameras and motion sensors - wouldn't be sending emails and text alerts whenever the alarm is deactivated or motion is detected, which every security system in the last 20 years has done.

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Deliberate mistake: Concerning the literal "bag drop" off the subway car: The ransom money bag falls from the train directly into the waiting hands of the bad guy, after it falls very arbitrarily from Denzel's hands, after the train is brought very arbitrarily to a screeching halt by another bad guy very arbitrarily hitting the emergency stop. This was sheer fantasy that could never happen in real life even if the thousand unknowns were known. Bigger than a simple plot hole - this was a deliberate mistake.

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Other mistake: After the saucer crash-lands, Data and Deanna are shown lying on the floor together, and as she moves, she says, "I'm OK," but the captions attribute her words to Dr. Crusher, who is in a completely different part of the ship with a group of children. (01:18:54)

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Plot hole: When John arrives at Diana's crash scene, he has no reason to believe that she was involved in the accident. He doesn't know what she was driving. He would have just assumed it was someone else and kept driving through. But instead, he gets out of his car and asks where the children are, just assuming it was Diana there, for no logical reason. (01:37:00)

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Revealing mistake: When Diana and John first enter the mobile home, there's a shot of a TV with a dented screen. It's very obviously an old CRT, but cathode ray tubes can't be dented - they're made of glass, and would not only crack and break, but would implode, since they contain a high vacuum inside. This is obviously a prop TV that has been "distressed" simply to make it look old. (01:09:01)

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Deliberate mistake: John is shown repeatedly studying Lucinda's numbers and even copies them to a whiteboard, and yet when Diana notices the backwards EE at the end, he's surprised and obviously acts as though he hadn't noticed them before, straining credulity, since he had just as obviously obsessed over the numbers and couldn't have missed the letters beforehand. (01:08:40)

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Stupidity: When the plane crashes and the family ducks into the small room off the main basement, powerful flames shoot all the way across the basement, up to the door that Ray closes just in time, but when he later opens it, nothing has burned, nothing is smouldering, not even fabric or paper, but the walls are scarred... as if from fire. (00:40:40)

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Plot hole: Wells says, "We're too late to prevent the murder of number 3..." He's too brilliant a person to not think of the obvious fallacy of that: possessing a time machine inherently means that you can never be "too late" for anything. He can easily travel back in time to try to prevent any of the murders. And he believes he can change the past because he immediately starts plotting to prevent a murder that a future news story reported. This contradiction obviously serves merely to further the plot. (01:25:00)

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Factual error: When Angela sets the fire alarm, all the lights go out when the alarm sounds. No alarm system would turn out the lights that people need to evacuate. (01:33:50)

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Factual error: Film is supposedly showing Hollywood circa 2010, but in a shot of Hollywood Blvd, the Dolby Theatre sign is visible. However, Dolby didn't get naming rights to the former Kodak Theatre until 2012. Also of note, a few seconds later, another shot of Hollywood Blvd is shown, this time with the Kodak lettering correctly visible. (00:01:00)

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Factual error: She's driving down the highway, and her car suddenly and immediately dies, with no opportunity to pull off or park. When she gets out of the car, we see it sitting on the bare forest floor - not even a footpath, much less a road. 14. (00:14:30)

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Factual error: In the opening scene, the shuttle is violently spinning, and anyone and anything inside would be pinned against the walls by the centrifugal force of the spin, and yet the Brian Harper character (Patrick Wilson) is able to move quite easily and normally through the ship with no trace of the forces that would be acting on him.

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Factual error: The movie, by various accounts, takes place 300 years after the apes took over and humans were rendered "dumb" (both literally and in the (non-PC), mute meaning of the word) or went underground. But yet they're making contact with a communication satellite. Satellites don't function for 300 years; they require occasional course corrections to keep from entering the atmosphere and burning up. Course corrections require propellant. The propellant wouldn't last 300 years. And the electronics.

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Other mistake: The email that starts it all for Sid Straw, the announcement from the University of Pennsylvania that he has been chosen to serve on the reunion planning committee, starts off with a nonsensical sentence that no one from U Penn would have ever typed. It's obviously the product of a studio runner whose work no one bothered to proofread. (00:01:15)

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Revealing mistake: In the scene where Dave (Alan Tudyk) is brushing off Sid (Tony Hale) at the reunion, the camera from slightly behind captures jaw movements that don't match his speaking, and he continues speaking when there is no jaw movement at all. (01:47:00)

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Revealing mistake: Near the beginning, when the car is lowered into the underground complex, the car is sitting on a section of the street pavement above. When shown underground, it's sitting on a rug or carpet that appears as if it were supposed to represent a dirt surface. There are even visible tire tracks. (00:07:20)

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Plot hole: When Arnie is driving the cop car and shooting at Conner and Reese, 5 or 6 inch holes from the gunfire are shown in the door right beside Connor. If the shell penetrated the steel door (which it could easily do - and was shown to do), there's nothing inside the door or on the other side of it to stop the bullet. Connor, and probably Reese, would've been ripped to shreds.

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Continuity mistake: In the middle of a sentence, new text appears on the chalkboard behind the speaker, as well as new colouration on a globe behind him. (00:32:42)

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Factual error: Narration refers to Hitler's Germany research into nuclear fusion - it was nuclear fission they were looking into, the same as what fueled the WWII-ending bombs in Japan, and every nuclear bomb and missile since. No nation has been able to generate nuclear fusion until very recently, and it doesn't produce an explosion - which is what Hitler wanted. (00:08:35)

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Factual error: When they come upon the nuclear reactor cooling towers there's a wide shot that reveals there are no electrical lines anywhere near the reactor. A reactor's central purpose is to generate electricity - all "real" (non-CGI) reactors are surrounded by electric power lines and transformers. (01:20:23)

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