Continuity mistake: Mac ends up in a lion cage, and threatens a lion with gun. He gets scared and drops it, but when seen in a wider angle, the gun has disappeared. (00:56:25)
Continuity mistake: When the couple exits Elysium, the rear window is broken and covered with a piece of paper. Half a second later, still exiting the place, the paper is gone and the window is fixed.
Other mistake: During the end credits, there's a misspelling. An 's' is missing from 'First Assitant Camera'. (01:33:05)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie, before the Guardians leave, Jamie rushes over to hug Jack. In the first shot, the top of his head nearly reaches Jack's ribcage. However, in the following close-up shot, Jamie is almost at the same height as Jack's shoulders. (01:27:30)
Continuity mistake: At the start, the bottle of Glenfiddich rotates on the desk with no-one touching it,. (00:05:45)
Continuity mistake: Kim is cornered by the bad guy on the rooftop. Her braid switches from being over her right and left shoulder throughout the scene. (00:56:00)
Revealing mistake: During the shooting in Candieland, right before Django bursts a man's head, a man next to Django who he uses as a shield has his chest burst. The blood pack is very noticeable.
Revealing mistake: When the officer on the bike chases Wilee, the door to a taxi opens and the officer collides with the door. You can see that the window had been removed from the door to make sure the actor doesn't get injured. It certainly wasn't rolled down because the frame isn't even there. (00:18:00)
Revealing mistake: In the first scene with Lincoln and his cabinet in his office, in one close-up of Lincoln you can see that Daniel Day-Lewis has a pierced left ear, which Lincoln definitely did not.
Revealing mistake: When Sunshine is playing ball with the children, she is shown kicking a melon up and down. As the shot pans around, the melon can be seen passing in front of a kid standing towards the foreground. (00:05:40)
Continuity mistake: Once Mud reveals who he shot and asks for Neckbone and Ellis to help him get the boat out of the tree, Neck asks for the pistol in return. Mud reaches around his back and puts his hand on the handle of the pistol tucked in the back of his jeans as he begins saying his shirt and pistol are the only things of value he has. It cuts to a close up, and suddenly his hand is on his hip and he reaches for his shirt, then back around to his pistol again. (00:43:50)
Other mistake: During the cast in the credits, 1st Commercial Guy is misspelled. They put "1st Commerical Guy."
Continuity mistake: Reacher explodes the water crash attenuators when he hits them. They are perfectly fine when Emerson passes them. (01:19:44)
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: During the wedding between Dejah and Than when they are about to drink the water, Than's tattoo is on the right side of his face whereas in other scenes his tattoo is on his left. (01:46:25)
Continuity mistake: Snow and Emilie find the inmates used in experiments. Then Alex and a couple of others get the jump on them and they have a fight. Snow grabs his gun and gets shot at, and falls down the elevator shaft. He lands and is knocked out, with his left arm draped over himself across his chest as he lies partly on his side. The next time he is shown moments later, he is now flat on his back with both arms at his sides. (01:11:35)
Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, in the wide shot there is no cellphone on the night table on the left at Whip's side. In the close-up a cell phone appears.
Continuity mistake: After Pi Patel first meets Anandi in the dance class, he is shown looking at her in the market place. There is a little girl sitting next to the flower seller. She doesn't have any flowers in her hair in the first shot, when the shot changes to Pi and then shows Anandi the little girl now has a flower in her hair . (00:27:55)