At the beginning, when they discover the drug on the truck, the guy wearing a hat is handcuffed, but when they're stopped by General Salazar, his handcuffs are gone.
Francisco Flores has distinctive wounds on his left cheek and forehead when first shown in surveillance photos, but those wounds are only visible after he is tortured by General Salazar's men, long after the photos were taken.
When Salazar shows Javier the picture of Frankie Flowers before they find him, he has the scar from the beating they give him when they pick him up.
The last name of actor Peter Riegert is spelled two different ways in the credits. The first time it appears on screen at the end of the movie it's Reigert, which is wrong. The second time, Riegert, is right.
Inside the surveillance van, the time indicated on the wristwatch hanging up near Ray changes drastically between continuous shots.
[2:07:38] When Eduardo Ruiz is poisoned, Montgomery kicks the door out into the hallway when the second waiter arrives, hotel room doors always open into the room.
Students at Cincinnati Country Day school do not wear uniforms. Also, the school building is considerably more modern. The scene that shows the school was actually shot at Walnut Hills.
[33:00]Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez is in a bar in San Diego and he offers a cigarette to a man who then lights it. Smoking in bars has been illegal in California since 1998.
During the woman's speech in the
courtroom, you can clearly see the microphone switch to be in the off position.
The Ohio license plates used in the movie have 4 letters and three numbers. The state recently changed from a 3-and-3 format to 3 letters and 4 numbers. In addition, the front license plate on Seth's car does not have the name of the county on the bottom, as Ohio plates have.
When Eddie breakfast for the first time in the hotel the agent puts out his cigarette when breakfast comes the second time it shows he is still smoking.
When Arnie Metzger shows up at Helena Ayala's house, at one point he quickly turns around and points to her. Clearly his mouth movements do not match up with the dialog.
The camera is visible attached beneath the helicopter landing.
In Wakefield's meeting with the Chief of Staff, he's told his first media briefing will be in a month. One of movie's final scenes is that media briefing. Meaning the time frame from arrest to trial for Carlos Ayala is less than a month. That's highly unlikely, in fact almost impossible, for a major criminal trial.
The accents of the supposedly "Mexican" characters are clearly not Mexican. This is pretty distinctive to any Spanish native.
At one point on the movie Manolo Sanchez says "castiga a mi" instead of "castigame a mi". No native-Spanish-speaker would make this mistake.
When Ruiz is in the hospital, he tries to convince the cops he is innocent. They are the same cops he just shot and ran from. How can he be innocent if he just shot cops? His logic doesn't make any sense for his character.