Repeatedly we are told there is a severe storm present, yet shots of the actors show them in clear sunny weather with well defined shadows.
Captain Worley talks about the big waves that are threatening his ship, yet in each shot of the ship, the sea is overcast but flat with no visible waves.
When they airlift the wounded man from the oil rig, the Dr reports that he had to use a tourniquet to control the bleeding, yet when they put him on the counter in the Galley to "stitch him up", the strap is hanging loosely on the man's leg.
Characters and roads are bone dry throughout the driving rain.
After the lead characters exit the ship and start driving, the wiper blades alternate between fast and regular speed.
Cyclone is in California. Radar shows storm over Florida and Key West
Nicholas Turturro is listed in the opening credits as "Nicholas Tuturro".
The character Ramona Peters is referred to as a Sergeant Major when she is actually wearing the rank insignia of a Master Sergeant.
During a sequence of shots around the 53-minute mark showing the cyclone hitting California, there is a shot of two vehicles with Japanese plates, one of which is driving on the left. Also, a white road sign with blue writing in Japanese and Roman characters indicates a destination.
Fire balls are falling from the sky, the hood and box of the truck are burning... But not the roof. Woman calls to them to "come up here" where she is standing on her veranda. When they get there the camera angles show clear and sunny skies, with not even a hint of the black clouds and fire balls.
The magma in the lower deck of the oil platform would have melted through the deck and all of the steel would be hot enough to melt shoes, yet the guy with the hurt leg is lying on the steps and the engineer is kneeling beside him - and neither of them have even a single drool of sweat.
The magma in the lower deck of the oil platform would have melted through the deck and all of the steel would be hot enough to melt shoes, yet the guy with the hurt leg is lying on the steps and the engineer is kneeling beside him - and neither of them have even a single drool of sweat.