Goofs

Each vantage point starts with a digital time display that shows 12:00:00 PM. Each time, the clock on the building behind the stage, where the flags hang, reads 10:10 or 1:50.

As the cars are driving down the stairs, the front bumper of Taylor's police car is crushed and hanging off, yet it's intact for the rest of the scene.

Barnes gets into a blue Astra with distinctive alloy wheels. During the chase, when Barnes stops at a junction and looks left, the wheels have changed, which means he is driving a different car.

Each story takes place in the same time frame, but in aerial views of the plaza, the shadows cast by the buildings change throughout each "vantage" view.

When Barnes is trying to communicate with the Secret Service Command Post, he speaks into his left hand, which should have a radio PTT palm microphone. In close-ups, his hand is empty.

When the blue Astra crashes between two parked cars, and when it crashes into the truck, it's going fast enough that the front and side airbags should have deployed.

During the scenes on the multi-lane freeway, an "AU" (Autobuses Unidos) bus turns right near the overpass. AU is a Mexican transportation company that does not operate internationally.

Towards the end of the movie, a stop sign says "ALTO". Stop signs in Spain say "STOP".

Several North American vehicles appear in chase scenes, including Ford Escorts and Focuses (which are common in Spain). The emergency vehicles are Chevys and Freightliners, neither of which are sold in Europe (although some Chevy ambulances exist throughout Europe).

The police cars and the blue Astra have Chevrolet badges on their grills. In Europe, they would have Opel badges (except in the UK, where they would have Vauxhall badges). GM owns Vauxhall, Opel, and Chevrolet.

When the package under the stage explodes, everything (including Howard Lewis) is thrown back by the blast concussion. The flags above the stage barely move.

During the long chase scene near the end, Agent Barnes shoots many more bullets than his gun can hold.

How many was that? His SIG-Sauer P229 can hold up to15 9mm rounds.

In the movie, the Seal of the President decals on the presidential limousines are behind the rear-passenger doors. In real life, the seals are on the rear-passenger doors.

Agent Barnes is on his cell phone when he steals the blue Astra from a Spaniard. As he gets in the car, the camera shows a clutch pedal and a gas pedal. Barnes shifts the car into first gear, talks on his phone, and drives for about forty seconds without shifting out of first gear.

When Howard Lewis's tapes are watched, the scenes are too steady and the camera pans too slowly to have been recorded as shown with Howard running around, constantly moving the camera.

At one point, Phil McCullough says: "I know that, sir, but we're looking for five people out of six million. We are trying." Salamanca, Spain, is a city of roughly 160,000 people.

Trivia entry says: The original script set the story in Madrid, but the producers wanted a more "exotic" location. The fact is revealed in some scenes, like the secret service guy who says they can't locate a single person among "5 or 6 million".

At one point, right after the cars drive down the stairs, two brand tags are visible on the seat belts in Barnes's car mirror, which means a stunt driver is driving the car. During the rest of the chase, Barnes is not wearing a seat belt.

Incorrect translation into Spanish. When the suicide bomber is told, "You will make us proud," (from the subtitles in English) what the character actually says is, "You will make us our pride." (Nos hará nuestro orgullo.)

Translation subtitles are not the responsibility of the film makers. They are outsourced.

In one scene, Barnes discharges a Sig P229 handgun, which are indeed used by US Secret Service, but the magazine shows it's loaded with Full Metal Jacket ( FMJ ) ammo. The Secret Service's job is to protect the most important person in America, and most likely will not use FMJ ammo.

Why ever not? FMJ will defeat adversaries wearing body armor and also won't cause huge wounds in case of an accident. The US Secret Service uses jacketed hollow points.

The first time at the Plaza, when Barnes is reviewing the footage, Taylor asks "You saw the shooter?" to which he replies, "No ... I saw a flash of light". The second time at the Plaza, when asked the same question, he just says "I saw a flash of light".

Leaving out one word, when asked the same question a second time, isn't a Continuity error.

Green and white VW Beetle taxis appear during shots of the multi-lane freeways. The taxis don't exist in Spain, but they're common in Mexico. Also, Salamanca has no freeways or overpasses.

The President's limo stops in front of a building with a statue of a man on a horse. The building is Mexico's National Museum of Art, located on Tacuba Street, in downtown Mexico City.

Palm trees line the streets of Salamanca at several points. Salamanca, in northwestern Spain, has no palm trees.

Thomas Barnes calls on his cell phone during the car chase, to make sure the team knows he is heading south. The shadows of the people in the street make it clear that he is heading north.

Chase scenes were through a city that was obviously much larger than that of Salamanca.

Trivia entry says: The studio originally wanted to shoot the entire film in Salamanca, Spain, but the local government refused to close the Plaza Mayor for nearly 3 months. Production was moved to Cuernavaca and Puebla, Mexico.

The Secret Service's job is to protect the President. They do not chase suspects in an assassination attempt or take the lead in the investigation, like they did in this movie. They would all stay with the President the entire time.

Taylor's role in the assassination attempt meant that he was guilty of treason and could not return to America.

Ted Heinkin inaccurately places the city of Beirut in Darfur when informing President Ashton of the leader of the group suspected of threatening the President. Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon, and Darfur is a region in Sudan.