Factual error: Neighbor states: '72 Challenger, 4.9-liter, V8. The '72 Challenger came with a 3.7-liter slant-6, 5.2 and 5.6-liter V8. (00:11:30)
Suggested correction: Sounds like the neighbor is mistaken, which would just be a character mistake. Remember, the car wasn't his. He had just inherited it, recently as Hutch points out. He admittedly didn't even know the correct 0 to 60 time.
Continuity mistake: When the Russians drive up to the house, they are in a van and 2 sedans. They leave in the sedan that he crashes. When they leave, the van is gone. (00:48:14 - 00:50:47)
Deliberate mistake: Hutch is in the trunk of a BMW 7 series ranging in years from 2001-2008. The trunk is equipped with an interior trunk release cable if somebody gets trapped in the trunk. While the car is in motion Hutch manages to free himself of his handcuffs and open the trunk. If the trunk is opened while the vehicle is on a light would flash on the drivers display alerting him/her to "trunk ajar" with a little picture of a car with an open trunk. I know I had one for 5 years. (00:51:50)
Suggested correction: What you described is true, but there's no mistake in the movie. We never see the dash when he opened the trunk, so you can't say it didn't come on. Then he only had the trunk open for about 10 seconds, and we don't know what anyone in the car said. The driver might not have noticed it, noticed it and saw it went back off, or said something about it. But less than 15 seconds later, Hutch breaks into the back seat and starts attacking, so even if the driver did notice it, it's pointless now.
Other mistake: Hutch states he had a "Suppressed H&K USP .45 at the back of his head. The picture shows a H&K USP 9mm. (00:58:40)
Revealing mistake: When making traps, he's harvesting powder from a spent shell (primer has been struck). (01:05:50)
Other mistake: While being shot at in the Challenger, you can see most of the rounds impact on the driver side door but more importantly the bulk land where they would be hitting Hutch without a doubt, and car doors aren't bulletproof. (01:15:01)
Continuity mistake: RZA is first seen using a bolt action rifle in a left-handed configuration but in later shots the rifle is right-handed. Not sure if they mirrored the image in the close up because they couldn't get the right camera angle or if they were genuinely trying to make his character appear left-handed. (01:16:02 - 01:17:49)
Revealing mistake: When you see Hutch walking backwards through a doorway firing his gun, you can see an actor in the background in the entrance looking directly at the camera. As Hutch passes past him, he puts his head against a wall and plays dead again. (01:18:32)
Continuity mistake: In one scene after Hutch is beaten up on the bus, he has no facial injuries. Then in the next scene, they are back.
Deliberate mistake: After the car crashes into the light pole and flips over. The top light is still functioning even though it's nowhere near the original spot.
Other mistake: During Hutch's flashback to when he was about to assassinate the man who skimmed $1 million, he says he was holding an H&K .45. However, at that exact moment you can see "9mm" on the side of the gun.
Continuity mistake: When Hutch is drinking from the flask he screws the cap back on. In the next shot the cap is off.
Other mistake: When the Russians broke into Hutches house they used a shotgun to "unlock" the front door. That would have woken up the neighborhood.
Continuity mistake: When Hutch kicks open the door at the couples house, it changes color and style in the next scene.
Suggested correction: If you're talking about the couple that robbed him, Hutch never kicked any door open. The couple lives in an enclosed apartment building and when he leaves, he goes to open their front door (which would lead to a hallway). When the shot changes, he's now exiting the apartment building itself (which leads to the outside). So it's a different door.
Character mistake: When the neighbor is showing off his Challenger he states it is a 1972 4.9 liter. Dodge never made a 4.9L that year, only a 3.7L, 5.2L and 5.6L.
Factual error: As many rounds that were fired at the Challenger, it would have died a lot sooner.
Audio problem: When Hutch re-enters the bus, Teddy tries to pull a gun on him. Hutch snatches up a bus grip (a pole made of lightweight, plastic-coated aluminum) and bashes Teddy into submission with it. After Teddy goes down, Hutch tosses the aluminum pole to the rubber-lined floor of the bus, but the sound it makes is that of a heavy iron pipe falling on concrete. Bad sound effects.
Factual error: The film begins and ends with Hutch handcuffed in custody, being interrogated by two police detectives. He was apprehended at the scene of a major violent crime with many fatalities, he has a gunshot wound, and he's a likely murder suspect. In real life, Hutch would be strip searched and treated for injuries under tight security, and he would not be allowed to carry personal effects into the subsequent interrogation. But during the interrogation, Hutch impossibly produces a pack of cigarettes and lighter, a can of cat food, a metal can opener and a live kitten from inside his jacket.
Suggested correction: You're missing the concept that he was a special individual. He would not be treated as you suggest, because of the uniqueness of his character.
His "special" status was unknown until the end of the film, when the two detectives simultaneously receive phone calls with orders to release him. Before that, he was still in handcuffs and being interrogated, and his identity was still a mystery to the police.
Continuity mistake: When the camera pans across the back of the police car you see it has blue lights on the top light bar. In the next shot it has all yellow lights.
