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• Continuity: When dialing the phone number of the bomb-trapped phone for the second time, Carl begins with a different digit than he did the first time he called.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The team meets in an underground room to debrief the team leader. Along the far wall, behind the reel-to-reel tape recorder, is a water cooler with a polycarbonate bottle. At the time, water coolers had glass bottles.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Avner meets Andreas and his friend Tony in a Rome café, there is a huge statue of Queen Victoria, in her extremely distinctive pose, in the middle of the square, with the British coat of arms on the pedestal, betraying the location as Malta.
  
  

• Anachronisms: When Avner is leaving his apartment in New York, a yellow "rubber bumper" MGB is present in the line of cars on the side of the street. The federally mandated rubber energy absorption bumpers were not installed on MGBs until late summer of 1974 as a 1974/5 model. The age of Avner's daughter would seem to suggest this scene takes place sometime before then.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the sea front in Israel, modern Maltese phone boxes and buses are visible in the background.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in Tel Aviv, the sea is to the left and the sun is casting shadows towards the camera, revealing that they are walking north. The scene must have been shot on the east coast of Malta, not in Tel Aviv, on Israel's west coast.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Avner finds Carl dead and naked in the bed and moves his head, you can see Carl's eyes moving about four times.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Jeanette the Dutch Assassin is dead and nearly naked in her chair, the reflection on her chest reveals that she is breathing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Golda Meir tells Avner "mazel tov" on a baby that is not yet born. Sayng "mazel tov" on an unborn baby is bad luck.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in the middle of the film, a jet-ski appears in the water. Jet-skis were invented in 1976.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie, the Munich Olympic kidnappings are on TV. Actors are watching the footage on screen as if it was happening live, but the date of the events is displayed on the ABC news coverage. The news footage is clearly archive footage.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When leaving Papa's farm, the camera and two operators are reflected on the side of the car.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Outside the hotel in London, a taxi goes over a speed bump, which wouldn't have been there in the 1970s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Avner and his crew are in Rome, you can see a trash can that was introduced in Rome around 2000.
  
  
• Continuity: Toward the end of the movie, Daphna's hand touching Avner's face. It's in a different position in three different shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Steve and an Italian girl observe the first victim in Rome from an Alfa Romeo Giulia (model 1974 or later, with a straight trunk). When the victim walks through the street, putting on his coat, Steve and the girl drive away in a Lancia Flavia. When the victim is in the store, they arrive in the Alfa Romeo Giulia.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Though they took the time to digitally add the World Trade Center to the final shot, they didn't edit out the Citigroup Center, Trump World Tower, and the Bloomberg building, which were built after the time of the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach, they pass the same old man twice. The first time, nothing is on the ground near the old man. The second time, he is next to a briefcase.
  
  
• Continuity: When Avner walks into Papa's home, he walks towards the kitchen past a table. There is a man standing next to the table talking to someone sitting down but in the next shot, the man standing up is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When the crew eats for the first time together, Steve holds up his plate for Avner to put some meat on it. In the next shot, Steve's plate is on the table as Avner serves him the meat.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film, when Avner's wife Daphna touches his face, her nails are polished. After they have sex, her nails are not polished.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The shop the victim in Rome enters has modern San Pellegrino cans.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Avner and one of his team members find their mate stabbed to death on the bench near the river, a modern-day truck, with a spoiler and cooling unit on the roof, passes by on the bridge above.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When walking on the waterfront in Tel Aviv, a rusty beat-up 1972-79 VW Bus appears on the street. The scene takes place in late 1972. A brand-new first year model would not be that beat up and rusty after just a few months.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The reel-to-reel tape recorder used in the debriefing is a Revox B77, which came on the market in 1978.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Avner is on the airplane to Geneva, the flight number starts with SA. That's the code for South African Airways, which has never flown to Geneva.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Avner checks his TV, he is holding a MagLite in his mouth. The first MagLite was introduced in 1979, and the model he's holding was introduced in 1984.
  
  
• Factual errors: Israeli weightlifter Yossef Romano is portrayed as a fit man who attempts a rescue, which eventually results in his death. At the time of the kidnapping, Romano was injured, and walking with crutches.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When the first Palestinian victim (the translator of 1001 Nights) turns at the corner at his house, right before his assassination (around the 37th minute of the movie) a modern parking meter is visible with a sign of a cellular phone.
  
  
• Continuity: After being shot, the first victim falls face-first onto his grocery bag. In the next scene, he is lying face up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Avner and his wife are making love in New York, he is drenched in sweat and his hair is soaking wet. His wife wipes his face and his wet hair is visible. In the next shot, his hair is dry.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Avner is waiting for the Palestinian's daughter and wife to come out of their building, before letting off the telephone bomb, the little girl says the same line twice. Off-screen, she says hello to her driver before she actually meets him. She comes out, repeats the same line, and says hello to the driver when she meets him.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first hit, Rome is cloudy and wet as if it has been raining. Immediately afterward, when the group celebrates, it is sunny, everything is dry, and there is not a cloud in the sky.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The black Mercedes W114 230.6 used by the KGB agents during the Greece assassination scene is patched together to make it more "historic." The front doors were made to look like a Series 1 model, with divided side windows, made prior August 1973. The side mirror was removed completely. The rest of the car is clearly a Series 2 (post August 1973), including the model designation 230.6 itself (it should read just "230", the two different models 230.4 and 230.6 co-existed after August 1973).
  
  
• Continuity: When Jeanette opens her dressing gown, you can clearly see her bra. When she takes the gown off, there is no trace of a bra.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In Brooklyn, Avner walks past a wheelchair-accessible curb cut, which didn't exist in 1972.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In Greece, just before the large explosion, Avner, who is supposed to be fluent in German, asks "Kann ich ein Licht haben?" as he asks for a light for his cigarette. The person responds "sind Sie Deutscher?" ("Are you German?"). The correct question is, "Kann ich Feuer haben?"
  
  
• Factual errors: In one scene a chess game is briefly visible in the foreground. The lower right-hand square on the chessboard is dark. That square should be a light-colored square.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the film, the German snipers at the airport were using rifles with telescopic sights. In reality, the Germans were criticized for their lack of preparation, including the fact that none of the snipers had telescopic or infrared sights.
  
  
• Continuity: In Rome, Wael Zwaiter is shot by Avner and Robert, after which Zwaiter falls on his stomach. However, when Carl comes back to pick up the used bullets, Zwaiter is laying on his back.
  
  
• Continuity: When the team is eating dinner after the assassination where Avner is nearly blown up in the adjoining room, the scene begins with a white rug under the table and then the rug is mystically gone in the later scene and bare wood floors are seen.
  
  
• Continuity: At the shootout at the airport at the end of the movie one of the terrorists machine guns the first group of hostages in the first helicopter, throws a grenade into it, and takes off running. In the wide shot of the helicopters when it shows the one on the left exploding, you can see the terrorist who threw the grenade running to the other helicopter and his body is hit with several bullets. In the next scene, that same terrorist is running toward the camera and again he gets hit by the bullets.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Late in the film Avner makes a telephone call from a booth on a street apparently in Brooklyn. He gives the phone's area code as 212. This was correct at the time the movie was set - Brooklyn changed to the 718 area code in 1984.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the terrorist with the cowboy hat (Tony), shoots one of the athletes through the cheek, we see a terrorist in a denim jacket and beige ski mask looking on in the background. As the shot goes to a different angle we see a different terrorist in a yellow shirt threatening an athlete (out of shot).
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the credits roll, Avner asks probing questions of Ephraim. They are in a small park on the north end of Gantry Plaza State Park, near 48th. Ave. & Center Blvd., just north of Avalon Riverview, Queens West, Long Island City. SSE across the East River are the high-rises of Peter Cooper Village behind Avner and to his left (our right), and the low-rises of Stuyvesant Town directly behind him. The World Trade Center towers have not been digitally added to these shots - "Break bread with me, Ephraim" - but have been added to the pullback about a minute later.
  
  

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