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When the CIA agent asks help from his Kuwaiti asset in Kuwait city, the setting is in a bar, with girls dancing and drinks in hand. Alcohol is still strictly forbidden and there are no bars or dance clubs in Kuwait.Share this
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Anachronisms (3) |
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Continuity (10) |
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Factual errors (4) |
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Anachronisms
When Joseph Bradley watches the bombing of the London bus, on the computer screen on the desktop you see the Google Chrome icon, when in fact Google Chrome wasn't available until September 2008.
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When Maya talks to the CIA director over lunch the Coca Cola bottle has Olympic symbol on it.
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Just as the Camp Chapman scene starts (set in 2009), Maya is shown talking to Jessica (who is frosting a cake) on the phone. Maya clearly uses a BlackBerry bold 9900 OS7 series (with a thick metallic frame around the phone) which wasn't released until August 3, 2011.
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Character error
On several occasions, Maya pronounces the city of Peshawar "PESH-a-war". The correct pronunciation, even by Westerners, is "peh-SHOWER". An expert in that region would certainly know that.
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Continuity
At the start of the water-boarding scene, During Dan's second interrogation of Ammar, he puts on gloves to adjust the rope, and then 10 seconds later when he picks up the towel the gloves are missing. When they are on the floor the gloves are back in his pocket.
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When the CIA agents are blocked by two Motorbike gun men another vehicle pulls up behind them to prevent them from reversing away and escaping. In the next long shot we see the two motorbikes but there is no vehicle behind the Agent's vehicle.
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Abu Ahmed's right arm is within his vehicle all the time while the surveillance team takes pictures of him in Peshavar. However, when Larry presents one of the pictures to Maya in a subsequent shot, it shows Abu's right arm on the window edge.
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When Faraj is being arrested by the men wearing black Burqas, two of them are shown walking on a small bridge as they approach him. In the following wide shot, there's only one on the bridge.
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When the CIA agents are blocked by two Motorbike gun men, In the next shot we see the bike shown in the beginning (Apache) is not the same as the one in the last long shot (Hero Honda Splendor).
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During the raid, the translator, Hakim, addresses the Pakistani population as they arrive at the compound to investigate the noise. He lifts his Night Vision Goggles off his eyes. When he goes to the downed helicopter to get a body bag, he no longer has NVG's on his helmet.
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When George comes into the meeting room at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, he tosses his coat towards the table and the coat is going to land half on the table and half on the chair. As he walks along the wall towards the end of the room, his coat is draped over the back of the chair.
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The ice cream level on Dan's cone changes from when the monkey grabs the handful to when it grabs the rest of the cone.
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When Maya, Dan, and Jessica watch the news about the Al Qaeda attack in Saudi Arabia, as Maya turns towards Jessica and speaks with Dan behind her, Dan's left hand is rubbing the top of the table. When Jessica responds and the angle is from behind Jessica, both of Dan's hands are below the table.
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When Maya boards the C130 at the end of the film the seat she sits in is folded down when the loadmaster speaks to her. The camera cuts to her and then back to the loadmaster and the seat is seen folded up. She then sits in the seat which is once again folded down.
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Errors in geography
When they are chasing the messenger down in the streets of 'Pakistan' there is a wide view of the street and you can clearly see an Indian flag flying in the background.
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The "Pakistani" market scenes shot in India, clearly show several businesses advertising their Hindu owners' last names. In Pakistan, a majority of business ownership hoardings would only show Muslim last names.
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In the where they are searching for Abu Ahmedi's phone signal in Rawalpindi,they are blocked by two kids on the bike and a car, we can see an Indian flag.
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Numerous vehicles have the registration plates of the state of Punjab, a province in India.
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When the search for Abu Ahmed is on, in one of the scenes you can see a huge green board showing the directions for different locations which include 1. Rajiv Gandhi Chd Technology Park which is an IT hub in Chandigarh, India. 2. Panchkula, which is a satellite town of Chandigarh. 3. And Shimla, which is the capital of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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A sign board with Shimla (hill station in India), Panchkula (near Chandigarh,India) can be seen during the secret stalking of Abu Ahmed's white SUV by the CIA.
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When searching for Abu Ahmedi's cell signal in the market streets, there are logos of LIC (Life Insurance of INDIA) and the new logo of Speed Post of India.
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The languages in which the sign board on the road are written when the search for Abu Ahmed is on, are: a) English, b) Hindi, and, c) Punjabi spoken in North India, where the movie was shot (Chandigarh). In Pakistan, the sign board would have been English and Urdu.
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Factual errors
During the raid on bin Laden's compound, some neighboring houses are shown with lights going on in different rooms as the neighbors become aware of the activity in the compound. In Mark Owen's book, "No Easy Day" and also in the reports on the raid from the New York Times, all the electricity in the neighborhood had been cut a short time before the start of the raid.
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The breed of dog used in the actual capture of Osama Bin Laden was a Belgian Malinois. The breed of dog used in the movie is a German Shepherd.
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The QRF helicopter in which the SEALs are extracted is shown to be a single, MH-6OK Black Hawk when in fact the QRF consisted of three Chinook helicopters from the 160th SOAR. Most likely MH-47e.
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Women in Pakistan do not go shopping in saris.
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Revealing mistakes
At the start of the Area-51 scene, an aircraft engineer is using a ratchet spanner/wrench - the sound when he turns the wrench is the ratchet (free/no-torque) so the nut/bolt is not being turned. However he then removes the spanner/wrench from the nut/bolt and performs the same action again (clicking the ratchet). The nut/bolt would never be turned if this was actually what was happening.
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In one interrogating scene the tattoo on Jason Clarke's character's right upper arm is smudged, revealing that its only painted on.
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Spoilers
Factual errors
In the movie, Bin Laden's beard is gray. In former ST6 member Mark Owen's book about the raid on Bin Laden's compound, he expresses surprise to see that when actually standing over UBL's body his beard had been dyed jet black.Share this
Factual errors
The real suicide bomber at Camp Chapman 2009 already had made a number of visits to the base. Thus he was considered trusted and not searched on arrival at the gate. In the movie, the incident is depicted to have been a first-time encounter between intelligence forces and a Jordanian mole.Share this
