Other mistake: A sniper in a building across the street had his rifle's scope aimed at Orlando's head. Reed came into the room with his gun drawn and walked behind Orlando to reach Ava. The Captor saw Reed via video surveillance and told him to leave. The sniper should have seen Reed but somehow did not. (01:12:12 - 01:13:46)
Continuity mistake: When Jackson put the fiberscope/ borescope camera next to the bottom of the door, the light was on, but the light was not on when the snake scope was shown coming under the door on the opposite side. (01:03:06)
Continuity mistake: The handcuff around Ava's right wrist looks loose enough for her to free herself simply by pulling her hand through it. In a later shot, the handcuff is closed almost against her skin. (00:54:30 - 01:00:39)
Revealing mistake: An exterior view of the damaged building was shown after Orlando's chair bomb blew through the 10th floor windows. The damage from the earlier explosion on the 4th floor could be seen in the lower left-hand corner. However, there were only two floors between the damaged floors [putting Orlando on the 7th floor] when there should have been five. IF the 4th floor was actually the 4th floor, there were not enough floors above it for the bank to be on the 12th floor. (01:20:44)
Other mistake: A SWAT team member and Chief Connelly had their heads tilted back and their eyes angled upward as far as possible when looking at the damaged 4th floor on the building across the street. Given the distance between the buildings and relative height of the 4th floor, they would not need to be looking straight up. When they were looking at the explosion on the 10th floor, they had their heads tilted back and eyes angled upward just like when they were looking at the 4th floor explosion. (01:10:03 - 01:20:54)
Other mistake: Two bombs went off in the building at different times, causing explosions that blew through windows on the fourth and tenth floors, but no fire trucks ever came and the fires apparently self-extinguished. Also, there was no fire department response to the explosion/fire in the elevator (which also died on its own). (01:10:03 - 01:20:44)
Factual error: Although the helium balloons moved some of the time, they did not move other times when they should have. The balloons next to Kim moved when Orlando came in the door and when she walked out the kitchen and stood next to them, but later did not. The helium balloons near the window did not move when Orlando walked by, but they did move when he backtracked. The red balloons on the chair did not move, but - even if not helium-filled - should have moved when Orlando walked past them. (00:02:32)
Character mistake: Captor put a bomb under Orlando's desk chair and told him to hack into the bank and transfer $2 million into an account. Orlando responded, "If I get caught, I'm facing 20 [years in prison]." Captor's death threats to Orlando and his family members plus the actual bomb under Orlando's chair are more than enough proof of duress or coercion - legal defenses to engaging in a crime. Orlando would not be facing any prison time or criminal penalties after a legal defense was successfully raised. (00:20:07 - 00:23:20)
