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• Revealing mistakes: When Eden Sinclair's partner gets his head shot off at the Docks the head is very clearly a dummy.
  
  
• Continuity: At the point where Eden and the rest drive away with the car through the emergency door, you can see clearly that the car scrapes against both sides of the emergency door as it is closing. However in the next shot, the car has no damage whatsoever.
  
  
• Continuity: In several scenes after the Bentley crashes through the bus there is no front end damage to the car.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the top secret satellite photos we see only few lonely people but when the crew arrives at the city they encounter hordes and hordes of "punks". However, the satellite photos are said to be from 3 years previous, the gangs may not have been as prominent as they are at the time period in the film.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the Bentley chase scene (supposedly in Scotland) the road markings - central dashed line with a solid line on both sides - are South African road markings indicating no crossing. In Scotland there would be no dashed line, just the two solid lines. During the same scene the road edge markings - yellow line - are South African. In Scotland they would be white.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene where Canaris' helicopter lands on the road you can see from the tail number ZS-HTN that the machine is South African. While who knows what manufacturer the British would be using in 2035 and given the civil breakdown, it would be unlikely to have a South African registration number.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning when people are breaking through the barrier, the "concrete" blocks can be seen tipping over as they are clearly made of plastic or foam.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Apparently the Bentley was stored for over 30 years. It is extremely unlikely it would run after this much time. Petrol is good for about six months (volatile compounds destabilize), the battery would be dead, and the tires would likely become harder/brittle.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The highways (motorways) are too clean. After this much time has passed, vegetation would have covered the pavement.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Toward the end, one can see a working digital sign. This must be a mistake since there is no transportation authority to operate/maintain this sign.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene at the England/Scotland border it is 9.17pm on June 20th but it is pitch dark. This is almost midsummer and it would be broad daylight at this time.
  
  
• Factual errors: The train they use to escape the city is a standard boiler type steam engine. This is not an engine that you can just turn on and go. You have to build the fire up and let it heat up the boiler before it would even move an inch, and if it is dry (no water in the boiler) that would have to be added as well. Even when not dry, this process takes an experienced team of steam engineers more than six hours. Unless it was just sitting there fired up, filled and ready to go, they could have not used it to escape. (There was some steam coming out of the front chimney when Sinclair got to the station, so it was at least primed, but would it be enough to get the train moving?)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: While a well-maintained lift would not fall even with the cables cut, due to the use of the Otis elevator brake after 20 years of disuse and poor maintenance, it is quite possible the brake is inoperative.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The elevator in the scene has a single cable, most western elevators use multiple cables to prevent failure even when a single cable breaks.
  
  
• Plot holes: Saul and his gang manages to find and chase the heroes with no foreknowledge of their mode of transportation or their course.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sinclair gets taken prisoner by Sol, its nighttime. But in her jail cell, sunlight streams through a barred window.
  
  
• Continuity: When the two APC's first exit the wall, it is raining outside. As the camera shows a close up of the windshield, the wipers are on. When the camera pulls away and shows a full shot of the APC's, the wipers are off.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Despite dealing with a "killer virus" that's managed to get an entire country quarantined, the soldiers at the blockade are wearing nothing to protect themselves from infection - just gas masks, which will help against toxic gases but do next to nothing against something as small as a virus - and even have exposed skin, such as their hands and necks. Full biohazard suits might be a bit much to expect but surely the joins in their fatigues should be sealed with tape and all skin would be covered, at least.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the PM's brief, during which the contingency plan to isolate "All of London north of the river" is outlined, a map of London and the flood barrier is shown. Judging by the scale (approximately determinable by the readily recognizable kink in the Thames), the barrier only goes as far north as Hackney, and thus is isolating maybe 20-30 square miles out of the 600 or so square miles of London.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: If food is so rare that survivors are eating human flesh, why did the infiltration team encounter cows wandering on the road? Much of Scotland is very rural highlands that would be difficult terrain for anyone on foot. During the initial breakdown in order, it is highly unlikely that the survivors would scour the whole of the country for every last single cow before resorting to cannibalism. Only a few cows would need to survive to account for the herd that is then encountered, 30 years later and numerous (cow) generations later. (However, it *is* somewhat unlikely that none of the characters felt the existence of a large herd of apparently healthy cows to be worth commenting on.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Sinclair and co are captured, Sinclair had the remnants of a can of beer poured over her head. The can would appear to be pristine and new. Given that it's thirty years since any cans were manufactured, how is this even remotely possible? Aside from this, there are numerous other examples throughout the film of materials that cannot possibly have been manufactured to a high quality since the virus swept the country and are in a condition that does not fit with either being low quality and non-machined or with having suffered three decades of wear and tear. (The paper plates handed out during the "Medium Rare" scene are another prime example.)
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Sinclair escapes the punks, she and Kane's daughter run to meet her team at Glasgow Queen Street Station, but the station her team is eventually chased into, (or at least the set made to look like the station) is in fact Glasgow Central Station which is approximately half a mile to a mile away.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: The character wearing the "cat-ears" shaped helmet is killed multiple times throughout the film.
  
  

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