The Polaroid camera used by Susan to take Tom's picture makes
the sound of an SX-70 model's auto eject, but is an older model
with a manual film extract.
When running away from the assassins, Tom slides down the handrail of an
escalator, which gets dirt on the seat of his pants. As he turns to run further,
the dirt has suddenly disappeared.
The Pentagon is one of the largest buildings in the world, with 17 miles of
corridors alone. For a single group to search it in two hours is preposterous.
When Tom "steals" the government car getting repaired he tears the rear bumper
off as it drops off the lift. When you see the car again on the highway the bumper
is back on the car.
Farrell is in a completely different pose in the Polaroid picture to the one we
saw him in when the picture was taken.
When Tom Farrell is in the computer room he deliberately knocks over a cup of
coffee and then sits in it. As he stands up, the coffee shows only down the front
of his pants, not on his rear.
LCDR Farrell and MAJ Donovan are of the same rank (O-4). Donovan would not
call Farrell "Sir" even if Farrell is running the operation.
During the Inaugural Ball at the start of the movie, LCDR Farrell is wearing the
Navy Cross. He doesn't actually earn the Navy Cross until he goes to sea and
rescues the sailor in a following scene.
When Leon Russom is handing Farrell and Pritchard CIA reports he pulls them
out of his briefcase. The next moment they walk him out of the office and he
doesn't pick up the briefcase. Later he has it.
When Farrell's arm is sliced by the "goon" at the end it is much lower on
the arm than where the band-aid shows it wrapped up in the last shots.
At the inauguration party, the band sounds three "Ruffles and Flourishes" and
then "Hail to the Chief" for the departure of the President. The President should
receive four "Ruffles and Flourishes" prior to "Hail to the Chief", and both are
sounded only at his entrance, not his departure.
The goons chase Farrell to a Metro station in Georgetown, but there is no such
station. Furthermore, the train in the Metro station belongs to the Baltimore Metro,
not the Washington Metro.
When Scott commits suicide at the end of the film, he places his gun to his right temple,
pulls the trigger and falls. When we see him fall, and all of the subsequent shots of him,
his head is immaculate where there should be a bullet hole.
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