Continuity mistake: The designated Pope has just been visited by a physician. Three cardinals want to take a stroll outside for some sweets and arts. One of the cardinals stands and rebukes them; you can see that the cross on his chest has its chain caught in a button of the vest. During the rest of the scene the chain is caught in that button in the closer views and is loose in the wider angles. (00:23:50)
Continuity mistake: During Cardinal Richelieu and Milady deWinter's first conversation, the Cardinal's hands repeatedly change position between shots; sometimes he is holding both up, sometimes they are both down, sometimes one is on the table etc.
Continuity mistake: Kate's stockings change colors, from black to beige, while she's running late to work. (00:12:10)
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie, the kids run upstairs to get changed into their PJ's. However, the girl, Blythe, is already wearing her PJ's and a second earlier was wearing her skirt, blouse and tights.
Continuity mistake: Right after Sanderson hands Kemp the itinerary for the next day's events, Sanderson places a pen and a glass ashtray directly on top of the folder lying on the table in front of him. In the next shot, the ashtray is covering only a small portion of the corner of the folder, and the pen is lying beside it.
Continuity mistake: The licence plate of the Toyota Camry that Dagny Taggart is driving changes from a red Colorado plate to a Wyoming plate. (01:25:26 - 01:26:45)
Continuity mistake: When Geneva is getting into Zip's G wagon it is afternoon due to it being very sunny with busy streets. But, when they arrive at Zip's home it is pitch black as if it's late night. (00:59:27 - 01:00:13)
Continuity mistake: After Sarah finds her father in the bedroom and goes downstairs to get help, the blood pattern on her shirt/upper breasts changes. While the movie is edited to look like one continuous shot, it was filmed in bits and pieces, and the blood pattern was not consistent in some of the shots, it seems.
Continuity mistake: When Laurence asks Colin for a cigarette in the screening room, he has it between his fingers when Colin lights it, but when the shot cuts, his fingers have disappeared from around the cigarette. (00:45:30)
Continuity mistake: Grace is in front of the horse stall after the polo match, closing the door. Her hand is still on the door when she is shot from the front, but both arms are hanging low in the intermediate view with the camera behind her. (01:00:00)
Continuity mistake: When the slasher is breaking down the door, the knife position keeps changing between shots.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, protesters chase Harold through downtown traffic until he dives into his friend Todd's vehicle; whereupon the protesters urinate on Todd's windshield and splatter fecal matter across his driver's side window. For several scenes thereafter, the fecal splatter repeatedly changes shape, orientation and quantity on the side window, actually gaining mass in some shots.
Continuity mistake: In two scenes featuring close-ups of the fireplace days apart, the same logs are burning.
Continuity mistake: Dr. Mario Tirelli at the beginning of the movie enters the clinic where he works. A blonde woman walks in the opposite direction and exits through the door as Tirelli briefly hails a nurse. At the cut, Tirelli is in the same spot as before (nothing changes in the background) but the blonde is back and with still a way to go before the door, and the nurse is far back too, with the doctor's hand not moving to greet her, in a different take entirely. (00:03:00)
Continuity mistake: Three teen boys are abducted to be killed at the church. One breaks free and finds a weapons cache and dies in that room, while his killer dies outside that room. Soon after, the preacher and his wife find the dead church member, then look into the weapons room to see two of the teen boys dead, side by side. But the second hasn't been killed yet, and dies running away from the church later, shot by the the local sheriff by mistake. (00:40:40 - 00:48:00)
Suggested correction: The second boy, the one who got shot outside, was playing dead so the church members would leave him. It is not a mistake in the movie.
Continuity mistake: The bad guys put Kyle and Sarah Miller on the ground in the hallway; hilariously enough, Nicolas Cage reaching for Nicole Kidman's hand grabs by mistake together with her hand also part of her hair pulling it. It's gone in the next shot. (00:13:20)
Continuity mistake: The red ink/marker encircling "notstop looking" is a continuous line forming an oval; the two ends meet above the "s" in notstop. The second time Oskar looks at it, the oval is different - two slightly overlapping ovals above the "t" in stop and the ends do not meet. The oval also stays mostly on the same line whereas the first one was wider, going into the words on the lines above and below. Also, the red ink does NOT look like it bled through the page, though that's what Oskar figures out. (00:05:13 - 00:14:00)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the film, when the bus driver helps the man in a wheelchair onto the bus, his hat disappears then reappears. (00:05:00 - 00:06:00)