Corrected entry: When we first see the campaign buttons in Dr. Chase's office, to the left (as we are looking at it) is a brown, cylindrical, leather bag, located close to the front and left side of the furniture it is sitting on. When Dr. Chase receives the other button from Ben, she looks up at her collection of buttons and the brown bag is now all the way at the back of the furniture and quite a ways away from the case that the campaign buttons are in.
Corrected entry: When Ben's grandfather tells him about the treasure, notice how when it flashes back to Egypt, the grandfather's left eye stays a little bit longer over the unfinished pyramid.
Correction: Pointing out things that can be easily seen in the film is not valid trivia.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ben Gates brings the Declaration to his dad's house, his dad says that previous generations have been chasing the treasure, and that one clue always led to another clue. He even theorized that the whole thing was a series of clues to keep the British occupied. The first clue given that started the quest was "The secret lies with Charlotte". That is the one that Ben solved. What are all these "clues" that everyone else has been chasing?
Correction: Ben Gates has followed one set of clues to the treasure, but the other clues that both his father and grandfather mention could be false so only a few knew what clue actually led to the treasure.
Corrected entry: When the "evil" guys search the web for the word "STOW", they say that the liberty bell comes up the most. When you search it the bell comes up rarely, if ever.
Correction: They search for "STOW Declaration of Independence". Search for it (without the quotes) and most of the results are for the Liberty Bell or Independence Hall. Although amusingly this page is pretty high up in those results too.
Corrected entry: When the group enters the fake treasure room. All the torches are lit. No one did this. But when they continue on to the true treasure room, Cage must use his torch to light everything. How could the first torches magically light themselves?
Correction: They didn't. Before Ian leaves them alone, Gates lights the torches by the door, after Ian leaves them behind, the father lights the torches by the door in the 2nd room. Both rooms before the real treasure room are dark until they enter each one with their torches.
Corrected entry: When the group is descending down the massive spiral wooden staircase,all the close-up shots show each of the cast holding on to a railing. In the wider shots taken further away, there is no railing visible.
Correction: If you watch carefully during the far away shots you can see that the railing actually starts and stops as it goes down. There are missing sections. The close up shots where the cast is holding on to the railing there is actually a railing present. There are also close up shots that show the cast not behind a railing which is consistent with certain far away shots depicting sections without railing.
Corrected entry: At the end, when they've finally found the treasure vault, Riley Poole leans against a massive stone Egyptian sculpture. It ought to be quite immovable, yet as Poole presses against the statue, it jiggles a lot.
Correction: It jiggles just a little bit, as Riley leans against it to hug it. It's a life-size statue of a man, and since it would have been moved (many times) during its existence over 2500 years or so, it's entirely possible - actually quite likely - that the base has been chipped over time, making it just a little unsteady.
Corrected entry: On the 'Charlotte', the main characters find a pipe with a clue etched on the handle. Ben cuts his finger to wipe blood on the outside to see the letters,and when he rolls it onto the paper, the letters are red, when they should be white with a blood background.
Correction: The etched letters are raised, not the background with the letters recessed. If blood covers the pipe equally, the blood on the raised etching will touch the paper while the blood on the recessed background does not, creating red letters on white paper.
Corrected entry: Dr. Chase's password to get into the preservation room was "Valley Forge." With an irreplaceable, extremely important document symbolizing American history and the Founding Fathers, one would think that a high-ranking government official with free access to this room would have his password changed frequently and have it be a random series of numbers and letters, not a real word or phrase - especially one as easy to guess as "Valley Forge," the famous resting place of the Continental Army during a long, horrible winter in the Revolutionary War.
Correction: For all we know her password does change frequently. Because of that she may use words or phrases that she can easily remember. But that was the password she was using that very day when they put the ink on the button they gave her earlier. Her password last week could have been different. We just don't know.
Corrected entry: When Ben and Riley are viewing the Declaration of Independence, there is no guard to either side of the display case. But when they are in the Library, Riley makes note of the fact that the Declaration of Independence is guarded at all times while it is on display, and there is a sequence that shows a guard to the left of the display case.
Correction: I've been to the National Archives, and the guards do not just stand by the display casing with the Declaration of Independence. If there is a big group near it at one time, there is at least one guard nearby.
Corrected entry: When Ben Gates is arrested by the FBI, the FBI agent takes the glasses that can reveal the code on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Later, the FBI uses him as bait to catch the other villain. After Gates escapes, he has the glasses back. The movie does not show the FBI giving him back the glasses, and why would it let him carry them while he was being used as bait, since the glasses were evidence?
Corrected entry: While Ben has a well constructed plan to get the Declaration moved from the Display Case into the vault, including faking the thermal sensor reading so that the Declaration would be moved into the Preservation Room where he can access it with little or no resistance, Ian and his crew have no such plan. How does Ian expect to gain access to the document when to the best of his knowledge it still sits in the Display Case? Was he planning on breaking into the empty vault and then crawling up the vault shaft to the Display area? And BTW, the limited amount of C4 explosive that they did show would not be enough to breach the 4 foot thick, steel plate vault, which still doesn't matter because the document isn't in there anyway.
Correction: A movie does not have to explain every single detail of what its characters are thinking and doing. Suffice to say Ian did have some kind of plan, it is jut never explained on screen. For instance, it is, as you yourself say, entirely possible that Ian did plan to climb up the vault shaft and break out the Declaration of Independence from below. And just because the amount of C4 shown would be insufficient for this, it does not mean that Ian's gang didn't bring any more with them. For that matter, we don't even know that the C4 would be used on the case, as this is purely an assumption. There could be other uses for the C4, all depending on what Ian's plan really was.
Corrected entry: When together, Abagail refers to Riley as "Riley," even though the only name of his she learned was the false one that he gave her during their first encounter.
Correction: Ben would've introduced Riley properly after he had admitted his own real name, probably during the drive to Ben's father's.
Corrected entry: When Mason is in the Bell Tower trying to find the answer for the clue, 2:22pm, the shadow points to a certain brick at that time. 2:22pm in June would show the shadow at a different angle than it would in October. How did they know what time of year the clue was taken from?
Correction: The shadow didn't show a specific brick, but a specific wall. When Ben got there, he knew which brick was important because it had the Free Masons' mark on it.
Correction: Since it is two seperate days, it is possible it was moved in the mean time.
James Storck