Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, an Italian detective discovers the body of a girl. He puts a hand on her shoulder to roll her over; his ring and pinky fingers are touching the girl's bare skin. Not in close-up, though; all of his fingers are on the short sleeve of her dirty T-shirt. (00:02:25)
Continuity mistake: After Detective Boyd shoots the man in the head, the man is lying dead on the bed with his right arm alongside his body. When Boyd sits next to the man's head, the man has his right arm over his head in an inverted "V" shape. A little later, a rear view of Boyd shows the dead man's arm back to being alongside his body. (00:08:42)
Continuity mistake: At the bar, the amount of beer in Maria's "Corona Extra" bottle varies from at the neckline, to below, to above. After she takes a swig, it is still at the neckline; then it is about 1/2" above the neckline. (00:25:50 - 00:26:44)
Continuity mistake: When Lucas puts the envelope on Dr. Mackles' desk the first time he visits him, it's turned in a different direction depending on the camera angle, as you can tell by the sticker. (00:34:15)
Continuity mistake: The obtuse captain annoys Detective Lucas Boyd, ridiculing his theory about the 'medicine man from Africa', so Boyd gets up and leaves. He shouts his name, hand on the desk. Detective Kersch tells him, "he's onto something", and you can see at the left of the frame Peter Stormare's position changed; his hand is up, just the elbow rests on the table. (00:49:40)
Continuity mistake: Lucas helps traumatized bartender Terry back on her feet, holding her right hand, which becomes the left hand as the angle changes. (00:51:20)
Continuity mistake: During the manhunt following the bar incident, Randoku pounces on Boyd, sending him to the floor. Now when you see Boyd's reaction from the front, it's pretty straightforward; he crawls a bit, just enough to reach for the gun, which he grabs so he can try and shoot the fugitive. However, the camera angle behind Boyd tells a slightly different story; he fumbles at first, sending the gun further away from him, and then he manages to grab it. In the other camera angle, the gun is always at the same spot (which doesn't match the other angle). (00:55:20)
Revealing mistake: Boyd brought Dr. Mackles to the location where he escaped the police hunt. Meanwhile, he rummaged through the rest of the place. In a closet, he found a newspaper with an article that talks about the evil South African CEO. In the first paragraph, because the rest is filler text about a completely unrelated topic (the answer about an inheritance question from the advice column of the Moneywatch website). (00:58:50)
Character mistake: The end credits (which are also IMDb's source) have the protagonist as "Detective Lucas Boyd." However, in the movie, his name (see the nametag on his desk) is spelled "Lukas" with a K. (01:01:05)
Continuity mistake: When, in a particularly bold move, Boyd pushes Farner against the doorframe, Farner laughs nervously, saying, "Obviously you don't know who you're talking to." Cole Hauser's thumb is stretched up behind Brian Kurlander's ear all of a sudden. (01:06:40)
Continuity mistake: Designated victim Katie is at the creepy South African CEO's mansion. She sipped quite a bit of her drink at the beginning of the scene, but once she puts it back on the table, the glass is practically full again. (01:09:50)
Continuity mistake: Following the scene when they find Katie, Boyd bangs his head against the glass of the hospital window. He puts his right hand against the window, partially on the frame, and he slides it downwards. But in the shot from the side, that hand is entirely off the frame; in fact, to the side of it. (01:18:20)
Revealing mistake: When Detective Boyd receives the package at the end of the movie, the package is not even addressed to him, but rather to a Jim Clark, 123 Chapman Lane, 96561 Lotus, CA. Which is, as you might guess, a sample package label. One of the top results when you Google "UPS shipping label", or whatever the lazy production department people looked up, downloaded and printed without bothering to edit it. (01:23:35)
Factual error: Evil 'sangoma' witch doctor Randoku is supposed to have almost superhuman abilities, but the cops that chase him in Rome aren't too shabby either; they somehow manage to give chase from Piazza di Spagna to the Colosseum to Castel Sant'Angelo. That's roughly 3 kilometres from one landmark to the other, on foot, within minutes.
Factual error: The protagonist, Cole Hauser, works for the Clinton police, as it is written everywhere on the police cars and the T-shirt he wears. However, he is assigned to murder investigations that take place by the river, and plenty of locations (the bar they hang out at, Morgan Freeman's college) are explicitly in Jackson.
