Errores

Immediately after Alejandro is shot, the helicopter pilot tells Matt that they are 2 minutes out. This scene takes place in complete darkness. However, when the helicopters catch up with the coyotes, it is broad daylight and the coyotes have been shown to drive a significant distance.

When Alejandro and the girl are boarding the Silverado in the desert, first there are no headrests in the car's front seats. After cut, the headrests are in place.

When the duct tape is ripped from Isabel Reyes' face, the scratch marks on her cheek from the schoolyard fight have completely disappeared. Additionally, there is no tape residue, impressions, or redness on her face from where the tape had been.

In the drone shot of Isabel's school, we see a line of cars waiting to turn into the gate to pick up the students. When the SUV's of Isabel's entourage leave and the CIA truck starts following them, there are no cars on the street waiting to turn into the school.

While seated in the shopping mall, there's a couple of extras that get up and leave close-by the characters in shot. Straight after we see them leave, the shot changes angle and the extras are again seated in the same position and exit a second time.

When in the convoy, the driver takes out a thermal scope to look ahead. He looks through the windshield. Thermal does not work through glass.

At the beginning of the movie, they found three praying rugs near the border. Two of those praying rugs are facing opposite directions. The prayer rugs are meant to face Mecca and clearly the one in the middle is facing the opposite direction to the one on the right. Praying rugs usually have patterns on them, some would be random patterns like the left one. But most of them would have a building theme patterns, like the ones in the middle and the right. It could be houses, mosques, pillars, or gates. These ones would be easy to determine their orientation. Muslims steps on one end of the praying rugs and put their face on the other end, so in using their praying rugs, they keep one specific orientation.

In the movie, the middle one is pointing toward the bottom of the screen while the right one was pointing up.

The opening scene of the CBP Helicopter, you see its Navigation and Collision lights flashing, but after revealing the coyotes on FLIR, the camera operator states going to take a closer look, the next scene, only the red collision lights are flashing. for the element of surprise, all of the lights would have been turned off, leaving them to figure out where the helicopter is by sound.

Graver decides to take Isabel into witness protection instead of killing her to cover up the mess made. Isabel is hardly likely to cooperate in being permanently isolated from her family plus Graver's bosses would not let him defy them.

However, the film ends before the audience gets to know the aftermath of Graver's actions. It is not known whether Isabel will cooperate or Graver's bosses will tolerate his insubordination, but anyway is just a character making a decision, never a plot hole.

After the first ambush scene, one of the attackers is driving a pickup truck with Mexican license plates. The pickup truck is a Chevrolet Silverado with "Silverado" badges, however, in Mexico, the Chevrolet Silverado is sold as the Chevrolet Cheyenne and the ones sold there have badges that say "Cheyenne". However, just because the vehicle was licensed in Mexico doesn't mean it was purchased there. It could've been purchased across the border in Texas.

After the Jihadist blows himself, three clean prayer rugs are at the explosion scene despite him being alone.

However, the prayer rugs discovered after the explosion were not in the same spot, as can be seen in the wider take of the area the morning after. In all likelihood they belonged to a different expedition where another three individuals actually made it past the border.

Alejandro blacks out while driving the car and slowly rolls into a post beside the road. Tire tacks are seen showing previous takes including where the car backed up and turned around, presumably to do another take.

During kidnapping scene, when a car is hit from the back at a high speed, the girl's head does not even slightly lash backwards. At such impact, in reality she'd have a severe backlash or even a broken neck. Also it is surprising that a "protected safe car" lacks headrests on the back and the bodyguards do not demand the child wears a seat belt.

When Isabelle escapes the ambush she walks away into the desert, she doesn't run and the ground is flat or smooth. When the team finally realizes that she's gone, she should have only had enough time (10 minutes) to get perhaps 3/4 of mile, and yet she's beyond visible range and shown to be at least several miles away.

When Matt travels to recruit Alejandro, the establishing shot reads 'Bogota, Colombia'; however, the scene clearly takes place in 5 de Mayo street in downtown Mexico City. Besides characteristic buildings, there is a Vittorio Forti (A Mexican gentleman's clothes retailer) billboard, and another one, showing Palacio de Bellas Artes, a prominent cultural center located a few blocks away.

On a scene set in Colombia, the character played by Benicio del Toro walks across a public telephone which shows a small poster for the "Palacio de las Bellas Artes", a well-known building in the heart of Mexico City.

When the choppers land in front of the coyote's vehicles and shoot every one, the one that covers himself with Isabel is shot twice in the head by Matt. At that distance, the bullets should have gone clean through his head and yet, there are no bullet holes on the window behind his head.

Matt uses a satellite phone inside a building where one needs to be outside with a clear line of sight to a satellite in order to get a signal.

The onscreen labels at the beginning of the file give the locations as the "US Mexico Border", rather than the "US-Mexico Border".

Part of the film is set in McAllen, Texas, a city near the US-Mexico border. The film shows several scenes where the background shows either mountains or hills near the border. The actual McAllen, Texas is located in the southern tip of Texas, where there are NO mountains or hills, since it's a flat country near the Gulf of Mexico.

The film depicts the US-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Tamaulipas (Mexico) as a barbed wire fence separating both countries. In reality, the border between the US and Mexico is an internationally known body of water: the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo for Mexicans). The Rio Grande River meanders like a snake along the TX-MX border. In some places, the river is several hundred feet wide. In other places, it is only a few yards wide. A border wall (built several yards North of the river) exists along some parts of the Rio Grande Valley, while in other places there is only fencing or no barriers at all between the river and American soil. The Rio Grande Valley/Mexico border is 273 miles long. Currently there are 55 miles of "Primary Fencing" (made up of 18-foot tall steel bollards installed on top of a 4-6 ft. concrete wall).

When the young coyote takes his first group across the river border from Mexico to the US, the river is flowing east to west... uphill... toward New Mexico.

When after the kidnapping where they land at the "Corpus Christi air base". There are mountains in the distance. The land around Corpus Christi is flat.

At 1:43, 2:12, and 2:42 it is established the Border Patrol helicopters have FLIR (Forward Looking Infra-Red) sensors. Based on this, Miguel's gambit of hiding his pack of illegals under the trees at 1:17:39 should not have worked. All of them would have stood out as bright heat sources under the trees.

Since an abduction is performed by someone know to the abducted, Isabel Reyes is actually kidnapped (victims of kidnapping do not know their kidnappers), not abducted as referenced in the movie.

Matt Graver was NOT an FBI agent, he was CIA.