Factual error: After warping back from Iscandar, Kodai looks out of the window. Yuki Mori points him where Earth is. A moment later, he responds to the hailing signal saying that they are now 420,000 kilometres from Earth. Considering that the distance between Earth and the Moon is about 385,000km, Earth is looking unreasonably minuscule from their window. (01:52:50)
Other mistake: The hospice male nurse Juan Is credited as Julio in the credits at the end.
Factual error: Sergeant-Major Saunders is wearing sergeant's stripes. Corporals Drake and Levin are wearing no rank insignia at all.
Other mistake: The protagonist is still a kid, and she is telling in voiceover about all the things she vows to renounce hoping to have her dad back in health. On the porch she knocks repeatedly on the wood, but the magical numbers don't appear. (00:05:00)
Factual error: The movie is set in 1979-1980. You can see vehicles all throughout the movie that were manufactured after 1980.
Deliberate mistake: The (fake) confession letter was postmarked from Ohio and sent to Allison Connor, 331 Henry Lane in Hilliard, MB 21243. No U.S. state has a postal abbreviation of "MB." The way the "B" was written in thick bold letters made it resemble a "D" - "MD" represents Maryland (where the film apparently takes place). Also, there is no current 21243 zip code in the U.S. There is a 21241 for Baltimore City and the next consecutive zip code is 21244 in Baltimore County. The created address LOOKS real. (00:50:44)
Other mistake: The object thrown (beer can?) at Jarod from the passing truck did not hit him above the neck at the bottom of his head (where his injury supposedly was). The object was thrown with an arc to give the appearance of hitting Jarod on the head, but landed closer to his left shoulder blade. (00:32:28)
Continuity mistake: During the scene on the beach, the shadows lengthen and shorten dramatically from shot to shot.
Audio problem: When Niko is going to get the key for somewhere for Zoe to hide and then Zoe disappears he says "Zoe"? When he says it his mouth does not move but once he finishes saying it that's when his mouth moves.
Character mistake: When Johnny and Cleo leave the Chateau and head for Vegas, they are shown getting on the 101 freeway North (in Hollywood) and are coming from the east and turning right onto the freeway. The Chateau is in West Hollywood so to turn onto the freeway where they did, they would have come from the west.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Billy is talking to the bum (who later turns out to be Tawny), the bum has a glove on his right hand. When he reaches his right hand out to Billy and Billy gives him a subway token, there is no glove. It's back in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: After the shootout at Sarah's birthday party, White Mike is visited at the hospital by Molly. Mike's pillow has marking "Property of Queens Hospital", they cut to Molly, then back to Mike, and the marking is gone. Regardless, they were in Manhattan, they would not have taken him to Queens Hospital anyway.
Other mistake: They already stated nobody had TV when the young couple were flirting. Then as the tornado is about to hit the family home Dad rushes to get daughter Sam to go to the basement, and she is playing in front of the TV which appears to be broadcasting the news. Not to mention, if the TV was working, wouldn't most people be watching the news for info?
Continuity mistake: Jason spits blood onto Joker's chin which changes spot wise and shape wise by the next shot.
Continuity mistake: When Charlie is coaching Sam in baseball at the beginning of the movie, they get on the road and he beckons to him. In the first cut, people in the background change (most obviously, a guy is crossing the street behind him, but vanishes in the second shot). (00:07:45)
Continuity mistake: Throughout the motorcycle/police car chase they used two different motorcycles made 50+ years apart and just painted them both black. One is a 1940s Harley Davidson with a springer front end and the very recognizable horn below the headlight, and the other is a late 1990s (at the oldest) cruiser with a front end that's completely different in every way.
Continuity mistake: The fan on the duty desk stops and starts randomly between camera shots. (00:54:10)
Other mistake: In the middle of the movie, there is a scene with the two moms on the couch talking. One mom (red hair lady) wears a necklace with a charm that says "love." There are two camera shots in this scene, one looking directly at her, and another from over her left shoulder. Depending on the shot, the 'love' charm is either visible or tucked under the top of her shirt. This swaps back and forth.
Other mistake: When the three main characters see the composite sketches of themselves on the news, Chris Hemsworth says "Oh shit" in his natural Australian accent.
Factual error: When the Senator is looking at the rent ledger, there are entries for each property as well as the date that money was collected. One of the dates is 2/29/74, yet 1974 was not a leap year. The only leap years in that decade were 1972 and 1976. (00:56:30)