Goofs

At minute 35, two black SUVs are barreling down the highway towards a barricade of multiple police cars stacked into two rows. However, when the snow plow rips through the barricade, the second row has disappeared.

When Officer Owens uses the rear of his truck to save Officer Torrance during the shootout, the truck's bumper is damaged in a collision with a patrol car. When the truck pulls away from the collision there is no apparent damage.

(at around 49 mins) When Sheriff Owens is talking with Agent Bannister, his hand holding the phone alternates between having a blood-stain and clean.

At the very beginning of the film, a car in the parked police car's rear view mirror switches its lights off. As the car blows by at 197 MPH, we can see a red tail light.

When Frank is shooting a bad guy on the stairs, the slide is locked back on his handgun indicating he is out of ammunition. Yet a second or two later he fires one more round into the bad guy and the slide locks back again.

Ray asks to see a gun permit. In Arizona, a person over age 21 may legally carry a concealed firearm or deadly weapon without a permit within the state, but must disclose the fact to law enforcement if questioned.

In all scenes involving Cortez shifting in the Corvette ZR1 the handbrake is visibly engaged.

The film depicts Cortez being transported to "federal death row" and, after his escape, pursued by FBI agents. All federal prisoner transportation and fugitive apprehension is handled by United States Marshals, not the FBI.

When the electromagnet hovers the car, the gun from the military-guy is magnetized and flies up to the top to the car, where it sticks. The guy on top of the magnet is shooting the whole time, not even affected a single bit of the magnetism, but he has a shorter range to the magnet than the guys in the car.

Sheriff Owens threatens Lewis Dinkum with a citation for the huge revolver he carries. The movie takes place in Arizona, which is a legal carry State and where there is no restriction on revolvers, whatever the caliber. No citation could be given unless Dinkum was specifically not allowed to own a firearm based on his record.

Typically in automobile chase scenes, spiked chains are spread across the highway to cause all 4 tires to have flats. Even if his car is equipped with "Run flats, at the moment of this occurring, the driver would lose control; especially at extremely high speed. Even the best driver would be fortunate to bring the car to a stop.

In a closeup of Jerry's desk his phone is not connected.

When the sheriff is being dragged in the car through the corn field, he shoots through the open driver's window at the villain. When the villain drops the car with the sheriff a clear shot of sheriff's car shows that the window is closed and there is nobody inside.

At the beginning of the movie, some constellations in the night sky appear twice.

The clock at the police station writes 7:25, when sunrise,at the subs writes 7:06.

At one point a Corvette is used as a ramp to upturn a large SUV. Not only would be impossible to drive at such high speed in reverse but an SUV would completely crush a fiberglass Corvette. After the stunt there are tread marks on the hood but the windscreen isn't even cracked.

Dinkum uses a chainsaw to cut down a pole to block the street. He tells Sarah and Frank that it's only got phone and cable (TV) lines on it. The overhead shot as it falls shows the only thing on the pole is a streetlight, and what keeps it from coming down is the power cable attached to the building.

When Old Man Parsons pulls out his shotgun it makes a sound of a slide racking. The gun is a double barrel break action with hammers, it cannot make such a sound.

When the female deputy is firing her pistol at the gunfight in the desert, she runs out of ammo. Four "clicks" are clearly heard as she continues to try and fire but is out of ammo. Clearly the slide of her pistol is caught in the most rear position, which would block the striker from getting released. Hence it would be impossible for the striker to release the firing pin and make a click noise.

Cortez makes the SWAT Chevy Suburban flip and spin in the air. When it falls down, the SWAT Hummer can't avoid ramming it, we can see roll-bars in the Suburban, and no people in it.

During the initial scene of Cortez being broken out of the FBI convoy in Las Vegas, the camera sweeps by a blue street sign showing the action occurring on "5th St." There is no such street sign in Las Vegas, as 5th St. was renamed "Las Vegas Blvd." in 1959. Furthermore, street signs in the City of Las Vegas are green, not blue.

Along the Arizona and Mexico border there are no east-west running canyons of any size, the border has hills that generally run north to south with flat plains between them. So all that the escaping guy in the Corvette has to do is to breach any man made barriers on the border.

During the night pursuit through the desert, Cortez loses the helicopter pursuing him by simply turning off his lights and hitting the brakes. The helo tries in vain to find him with a simple searchlight. A federal law enforcement helicopter would certainly have been equipped with a forward looking infrared (FLIR) camera, making it very easy to spot a vehicle with a hot engine even in complete darkness.

When the electromagnet picks up the car, the guard's gun is magnetized and flies up to the ceiling, but Gabriel Cortez' shackles and chains are not affected by the magnet at all.

No one thinks to ask the Mexicans to block the drug baron's escape from the other side of the border.

At no time does anybody think to use a 'stinger' - a spiked chain thrown across the road, used by law enforcement - which would blow all four tyres of the corvette.

When Cortez is being moved, the FBI and several other agencies are involved. They make a motorcade longer than the US President has through Lad Vegas. This is inherently baseless. It would be much more effective to move him surreptitiously. For example, use a "double" in the motorcade, while the actual prisoner is moved in a much smaller group of only 2 or 3 vehicles, so as to not draw attention.