Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronised
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Errors in geography
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Factual errors
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
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Plot holes
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Revealing mistakes
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Spoilers
Audio/visual unsynchronised
Near the end when Payne is talking to Jack on the phone he is seen holding the phone on the left side of his face with his right hand. While he is talking, he snaps his fingers with his other hand, however, this would have been impossible considering he was missing a thumb on that hand.Share this
Character error
At the end of the movie, when Annie and Jack are kissing in the destroyed subway train, one of the tourists that almost crashed with their van is taking pictures of the couple with a closed Polaroid camera.Share this
Character error
After the passengers get transferred off the bus safely, the tire pops. Annie says "Jack, I can't hold anymore" yet Jack responds "Hold on!"Share this
Character error
After Jack punctures the bus' fuel tank and is rescued by Ortiz, Annie punches him and asks him, "What's that smell?" Jack tells her, "It's gas," yet the bus is a GMC 'New Look' model which is powered by Detroit Diesel engine.Share this
Continuity
The handcuffs on Annie's wrists in the subway car are tighter in some shots than others.Share this
Continuity
When the bus is driving by itself, it appears to be driving through a hangar. When the bus enters the hangar, the hangar door is fully open. But when the bus exits the hangar from the other side, in the background you can see the hangar door fully closed.Share this
Continuity
The cut on Annie's forehead disappears and reappears during the subway scene, as well as changing its size.Share this
Continuity
In the subway terminal scene Annie has at least one cuff attached to her wrist but when she gets on board the subway there is nothing until she's cuffed to a pole.Share this
Continuity
When Helen tries to get off, Jack moves forward and grabs her left shoulder. After a brief cutaway to Payne, Jack is standing farther back and his hand has not yet reached her shoulder when the bomb under the steps explodes.Share this
Continuity
Shortly after Jack shoots Harry in the leg and Payne goes to make his mistake, there was originally a scene that showed Jack shooting Payne in the neck. Although this scene was eventually deleted, you can still see the smoke from the shot Jack fired while he watches Payne run into the garage.Share this
Continuity
When the ambulance parks up and Jack gets out, he shuts the door behind him. When Annie gets out of the ambulance later the door is already open.Share this
Continuity
As they are attempting to derail the subway, they are hugging around the pole. As the subway tips over in the street. It flashes to them still hugging as the pole breaks and they fall, the pole is behind her (outside of the hug).Share this
Continuity
In the subway car, the dye bomb inside the money bag explodes and the purple paint sprays all over Payne's face. After that he climbs up on top of the subway car to fight Jack, but during the fight sequence there is no purple paint on his face.Share this
Continuity
The orientation of the lines of the train roof during the final fight sequence between Jack and Payne. During the fight, Jack is on top of Payne, and Payne tells Jack "Hey, I'll drop the stick boy! You want that?" before smacking Jack in the face with it. From here Payne ends up on top of Jack and smacks him in the face again, here they are laying with the train roof lines going across their bodies. There is a short cut where Payne smashes the back of Jacks head on the roof. Then Payne again smacks Jack in the face with the stick, but despite Jack and Payne not rotating their bodies, they are now laying along the lines.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
Reflected in the other bus that rescues the passengers from the bomb bus.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
In the last shot of the film, with the camera moving away from the train on Hollywood Blvd., a long length of dolly track can be seen on the sidewalk on the left side of the frame.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
Camera truck reflected in the rear bumper as the last lady gets off of the bus when the passengers are being rescued.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
Just before the bus drives into the courier plane at the end, there is a cable visible on the left of the screen.Share this
Factual errors
When the bus enters LAX the right rear tire is torn by the security spikes in the driveway, but does not rupture immediately; we later see it peeling apart as the passengers are retrieved, until it bursts completely and sends the bus lurching to the left, away from the retrieval vehicle, with Jack and Annie still aboard. However, a tire that bursts on the *right* side of a vehicle at high speed will cause that vehicle to skid to the *right*, which in this case is *into* the retrieval vehicle - not away from it. (Of course, it's possible the bus's wild skid to the left is the result of Annie, who is an inexperienced driver, overcompensating - but we don't see even a hint of the fishtail that would produce.)Share this
Factual errors
Subway systems have fail-safe precautions which prevent runaways. This takes the form of a deadman's switch, usually a foot pedal, which requires constant pressure to operate the train. Once the shot trainman's foot came off the pedal, the train should have slowed to a stop.Share this
Factual errors
Jack steps off the moving bus at the airport via the rear doors, since there are no front door steps, and they stay open afterwards until Stephens steps into the opening. Annie could not have operated the door switch as would be done at a normal stop, since this would also have applied the bus's brakes; therefore the doors should close themselves as soon as they are not being held (as we see them do a few minutes later during the setup for evacuating the bus).Share this
Factual errors
When the bus hit the airplane and both blew up, the impact from the blast would easily have also blown up the vehicle pushing the airplane. Yet several moments after the plane and bus blew up, the driver of the vehicle jumped out unscathed and ran for cover.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
The plane clearly has no windows along its sides, and yet debris after the explosion seems to include rows of window frames. But most aircraft are designed for both freight and passenger use, and the internal structure of the fuselage includes the window-shaped holes seen in the debris.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Payne clearly doesn't have the dead man's handle in his hands just before and after boarding the subway train. However, since he never said he was intending suicide, he conceivably provided a way to deactivate the trigger; he could have used this and put it in his pocket for this short time when he needed both hands free.Share this
Plot holes
A public subway car wouldn't be running on an unfinished track. And why does the subway car have to be sped up to jump the track? Why didn't they just turn it off and let it slow to a crawl?Share this
Plot holes
Harry is shot in the leg, and hobbles with a cane at the award ceremony. The next day he is leading the crew that is blown up at Payne's house. He would still be restricted to office duty and not leading that operation. Also, he's not limping in Payne's house.Share this
Plot holes
When Traven is being towed by a cable under the bus at the airport, the bus manages to make turns.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Jack and Annie leave the bus, small wheels are visible on the bottom of the trap door they are riding on.Share this
Revealing mistakes
Sparks from the sliding subway car obviously not generated by friction against the ground.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When the front door of the house explodes, a wire is clearly visible pulling the cop that is "blown back" by the force of the explosion.Share this
Revealing mistakes
Toward the end of the movie when Jack and Howard are fighting on top of the subway train, the blue screen is clearly visible in at least one shot.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Payne "loses his head" on top of the subway train, the light doesn't get damaged.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Payne shoots the subway train driver, the glass to the drivers cab doesn't shatter and the bullet holes are too high in comparison to the driver's wounds.Share this
Revealing mistakes
Jack is shown attempting to disarm the bomb from under the bus, having a good two feet of clearance in which to work. Yet, we can clearly see before Jack slides underneath on the wheeled platform that there is nowhere near such room actually available under the bus. Moreover, given this low clearance, it would have been impossible for Jack and Annie to have been able to safely leave the bus this way from the center access panel.Share this