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Other mistake: The gasoline at the climax of the movie catches fire, which is absolutely fine...but the fire spreads with the same intensity and speed across the money pile which was not touched by the gas. And it does it with a pattern, too. But the gas never got there. (01:21:45)

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Continuity mistake: Jonah passes the phone to Avery, so she can stop the security from coming. She grabs the phone with her left in the first shot, then in the background we see her with the phone in her right hand. (00:58:35)

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Other mistake: Kyle and his daughter manage to free themselves burning (at least in part) their scotch tape bindings. The robbers don't realise that. Try to burn similar tape with a lighter; the smell (that they can't mask) is gonna alert anyone, especially when they get this close. Later Kyle is working the weakened tape and in close-up we see just his forearms, but the kind of movement he does is impossible to make without moving the rest of the arm, and the bad guy (with his accomplices) is literally looking at him at that moment. (00:50:00 - 00:54:00)

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Continuity mistake: After kicking the heck out of Kyle, Ty grabs him and drags him against a wall. Kyle is suddenly holding his arm, and Ty has both hands clasped together but without underhooks on Kyle like he had before. (00:56:10)

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Other mistake: Sarah steals the tranquillizer syringe (which is no small syringe, either) and supposedly slips it in her sleeve. Problem is, Nicole Kidman is wearing a pretty tight dress with sleeves that go up to the elbows. There is no way for her to hide the syringe that way (and in fact the actions of hiding the object and then later in the movie pulling it out happen in shadowy close-ups). (00:36:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Elias says that "the younger the kidney the better" and Kyle understandably reacts to the phony story with an insult, the grip on his daughter's shoulder changes. (00:37:30)

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Continuity mistake: In Jonah Collins' flashback after he punches the locker, Nicole Kidman's hair moves from behind to the front of her shoulder when he asks her if she designed the place herself. (00:30:20)

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Other mistake: Succinylcholine paralyses you for about 10 minutes; in the movie it lasts way longer, and the bad guys were planning to use it instead of ropes and cuffs. It would have bought them a really short time, surely insufficient to make their planned escape to Mexico, while tying them up with just about anything (zip ties, scotch tape) would have given them potentially hours.

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Factual error: When Elias shows Kyle the syringe full of succinylcholine, the liquid is brown. Succinylcholine is colorless. He also describes it as something that will basically get them high, which is not what the substance does (although that part may be deliberate deception - even if he does not hide at all the fact that an OD would kill them, so the purpose of such deception is unclear). (00:26:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Kyle tells the silly robber boss "In your hands, they go back to being nothing but rocks", Ben Mendelson is scratching his head, which he was not in the previous shot. (00:21:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Elias drags Sarah in front of Kyle telling him to open the safe, the gun changes position against Nicole Kidman's head multiple times. Even accounting some deliberate discontinuities/skips in the action, in normal shot/reverse shot switching you can see her hair being over the gun and suddenly disappearing at the cut. (00:24:30)

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Stupidity: Kyle Miller gets in a confrontational talk with the villains to convince them that they need him to cut the diamonds he has in the safe; Jonah sums it up as "he wants them to get the diamonds, then give them back to him." Problem is, Kyle does not have any diamonds in the safe, and he knows it. He is selling so hard the bargain on something he does not have. If they agreed, he could not show them any diamonds and he'd have an even harder time dealing with them, and he does not have anything else to give them. Of course if he told them he had no diamonds the movie would have been much shorter, but he didn't have in-character reasons to lie on something like that.

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Character mistake: When the robber taunts Kyle, and he tells him that he does not hear the cops and the alarm...he's kinda not getting the point of the 'fake' code that Kyle was trying to use. The alarm was not gonna make any sound, it was going to be a silent one. And he knows that. (00:15:55)

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Character mistake: The alarm system has two codes; one (7466) that works properly and the other one (7465) that appears legit but would call the cops as well. Sarah is supposed to give the legit code, but before being cut off she says "774..." That would have not been a valid code. (00:15:20)

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Continuity mistake: A bad guy is about to give Kyle's wife more than a patdown to look for her cell phone, and Kyle goes nuts. He is easily overpowered, though. During this sequence, the hands of the home invader keep changing position on the prone Nicholas Cage. (00:14:20)

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Stupidity: The protagonist has a sophisticated alarm system with cameras...that do not properly show who is at the gates (the cameras are positioned in a way that does not show the face of the person ringing). The bad guys are disguised as police officers...and wear ski masks, which would have made the disguise entirely pointless - but luckily for them, Nicholas Cage can't operate cameras nor looked at the ones on the entryway or the front of the house, didn't open the door sooner nor peeps before opening. They could not know any of that, though, just that the camera at the entrance has a terrible angle.

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Continuity mistake: Avery's friend tells her about her mom bedding the divorce lawyer. Next shot, and Avery does her big girl reply with her hand on her forehead, which she did not have earlier. (00:08:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the very last shot of the movie before the credits roll, Nicole Kidman's hair changes position on the forehead from the previous. (01:24:50)

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Factual error: Avery crashes the car on purpose at top speed against a street lamp and undoes at the last moment Petal's safety belt. Neither airbag is deployed on impact. (01:16:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Avery moves from her mom to his dad to hug him after being captured, Nick Cage's hair is suddenly more neatly arranged than earlier, and switches again between neat and messy on the right a couple times. (00:36:20)

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