Goofs

The crane picks up the Porsche through the windshield, but when it drops it in the water, it's holding it from the rear.

In the chase scene with Rachael and Jerry, the SUV gets hit several times and gets severely damaged, but throughout the whole chase it appears with no damage several times.

When Ethan's rank is spoken (on phone video in the chamber he says his rank) and shown on his uniform (memorial service picture shows him wearing sliver bar on shoulder) it is of an officer. But after the retinal scan of Jerry, Ethan's ID card comes up on screen, and it says E8 SMgt. (enlisted rank).

During the first chase scene, when Rachel is driving the black Porsche with Jerry, the glass on the driver side door repeatedly changes from cracked to normal to severely cracked.

When Jerry is on the train in Chicago, he is going to the Wilson station, which is a red line train and does not go to Quincy which is part of the "Loop". But when he jumps off it is at the Sheridan stop on the red line which is one before the Wilson stop. But when he runs out of the station, he is at the Wilson station.

The movie mentioned that the cargo compartment of the C-17 Globemaster III was unpressurized, and the characters required a lowered heart rate due to the lack of oxygen. This is the case when flying aerial delivery missions with the rear door open, but the flight in the movie took off and landed with all pallets on board meaning the cargo door would have been closed the whole flight, and have normal pressurization.

Even identical twins do not have the same biometric "signature" nor voice pattern.

Even if vibrations from the voices on the surface of the coffee cup were large enough for ARIA to read clearly, there is the question of whether ARIA's vision is fast enough to distinguish separate vibrations. The frequency of human voice goes to 2,000 Hz and a common consumer camera samples at most 25 frames per second. If ARIA was limited in this way, the vibrations would blur together and be indistinguishable. However this assumes that the military's most advanced data gathering machine is limited to parts available in electronics super-stores. It's already established in the movie that ARIA transfers data optically from all her data banks using infrared light, which would require a IR camera with an incredibly high sampling rate - more than enough to sample vibrations from a human voice. Visual sampling of vibrations for eaves dropping is done with lasers. It is currently the only way to keep up with the vibrations. While it is true that there are cameras with a frame rate high enough that they might work, the chances that one such camera just happened to be in that room when ARIA needed it is beyond slim. Also, ARIA was looking at the cup through a window. If she could read the vibrations in the cup, she should have been able to read them in the window, and if not, whatever prevented her from reading the window would also prevent her from reading any vibrations beyond the window.

ARIA wants to kill 11 people to place the Secretary of Defense in control of the USA. The Secretary of Defense is Sixth in line for presidential succession (after the Vice-President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury).

When the duo first enters Indiana they pass a sign that reads "Welcome to Indianapolis". In reality, the sign actually says "Welcome to Indiana".

When Jerry Shaw finds several passports in his room, one of them is the USSR passport. While the Soviet Union did collapse in 1991, Soviet passports were valid for 10 years and could be validated for another term at consulates without being changed. A passport issued in 1990 would be valid to be extended until 2020. You get a new passport when you actually visit the ministry.

In the chase scene where Rachel is driving the Porsche, it is revealed that the vehicle has a manual transmission, yet a light illuminates on the dashboard indicating cruise control was activated. Some have mistakenly presumed that manual transmission vehicles do not have cruise control. In actuality, the Porsche Cayenne comes standard with cruise control, as do many other manual transmission vehicles.

At the start, when assessing the probability that they were going to kill the right man, it was initially 37% accuracy. However, the large computer screens in one shot reported it at 51%. Some people assume this is a continuity error, but it is not. The 31% figure is from a picture taken by the mobile phone, and it changes to 51% when taking into account a new, better picture from the aerial drone.

When the crane crashes into the building to allow Jerry to escape interrogation, he looks down and sees subway tracks with pedestrians standing by. He jumps and proceeds to land and avoids being hit by the an oncoming train. During this whole scene all pedestrians just don't happen to notice the sound of the huge collision between the crane and the building or any of the falling debris.

When Jerry jumps off the train track and stands while the train rushes past him, his jacket should have waved freely in the wind created by the train. His jacket remained very still, looking unnatural and indicating that the train was not really there in the scene's filming.

When the MQ9 Reaper is started remotely by ARIA and moves out of the hangar, you hear the (popping) sound of a piston aircraft engine starting. The Reaper is a turboprop aircraft equipped with a Honeywell TPE331-10 turbine engine, which has a distinctly different (whining) start-up sound.

When the security cameras in Indianapolis are seen the date is clearly 1/26/2009, at this time in Indianapolis you would not see green trees and grass.

Towards the end of the movie during a flyover of Washington DC, the top of the Washington Monument is crooked.

The music played by the children's band includes several loud cymbal clashes, but no one is playing the cymbals.

When the grade school band is playing, the sound of the band includes a full low brass section, which does not appear on screen. (The band appears to be mostly violins and trumpets.)

A military aircraft would not have used the Dayton International Airport for take-offs; it would have used Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

A scene supposedly set at the Dayton, Ohio Airport features a Hawaiian Airlines 767. Hawaiian doesn't fly east of Phoenix.

The surveillance camera near the Merry-Go-Round lists its location as 39h48m54.89s N 85h46m34.87s W and the one in Circuit City as 39h48m54.82s N 85h46m34.80s W. The person cooking those coordinates clearly had no idea they were less than 2 feet apart. The aggregate distance should be at least 10 seconds or so apart. Greenfield, IN is on the route between Indianapolis and Dayton, there is no Macy's, Circuit City, or even a shopping mall for miles around.

There is no pier (except the mall "Navy Pier"), and especially not a barge-loading dock with cranes anywhere near the Wilson El-train stop (north side of Chicago). The entire northern lake front is 18 miles of bike and jogging paths in a green park area.

Early in the movie when Jerry is on the El train in Chicago, he is shown at the Quincy stop, but the train that he is on is a specific type of train that is only utilized on the Blue line route that doesn't go through the Quincy station. Also, shortly after leaving the Quincy station he is shown at the Wilson station, which is on a completely different train line and would probably require at least 30 minutes to get to even if on the correct train line.

Jerry is the one single indispensable person ARIIA needs to survive until he reaches the Pentagon, yet she repeatedly places him in life-threatening situations that he barely survives thru blind luck - the crane crashing thru the building, jumping from the building and landing in front of a train, a devastating and destructive car chase, an armed robbery/shoot out with security guards, falling electrical wires, slowing his heart function, etc... any single one of which, if failed, would have doomed her plot.

A rogue missile-armed drone heading toward Washington DC destroying ground targets, an armed F-16 mysteriously being downed, and and armed FBI agent running up to security shouting about a threat to the president are all apparently not sufficient events for the Secret Service to take any special precautions with the president and the State of the Union goes on as if nothing is amiss.

ARIIA recruits Jerry and infiltrates him into the Pentagon, ostensibly, because she needs him to override the security protocols Ethan put into place and permit her to go ahead with Operation Guillotine. This seems completely unnecessary since, by the the time that happens near the end of the film, the large majority of elements of the operation to kill the president and cabinet have already happened or already in place - the hex has been diverted and fashioned into a bomb and the band is in place to detonate the bomb. What kind of security protocols would allow her to commit large-scale acts of destruction/murder and complete 99% of the plot to destroy the government, but need one final override at the last minute to go thru with it...?

Ethan becomes aware of ARIIA's plot and, for no explained reason, rather than taking ANY obvious steps to alert his chain of command or the Secretary of Defense, chooses an obscure and nearly unnoticeable method of communicating the plot to his superiors, then leaves work without notifying anyone and drives home as if nothing is wrong.

TSA will apparently let you through unmolested as long as you prominently display a firearm and loudly yell "FBI!"

Armored car security officers are not allowed to pursue, and firing at a fleeing suspect would be severely punished.

ARIIA is an all-knowing super computer who knows everything about you and your personality, but for some reason, provides Rachael with a car that she can barely drive.

Under no circumstances would Lt Shaw, Major Bowman, or Agent Perez be allowed to bring a telephone into such a secure area.

During the playing of the National Anthem in the Capitol, we see a number of General officers singing along. Regulations dictate that members are to stand silently at attention from the first note to the last.

Agent Perez, being an Agent, would not be a uniformed member of the US Air Force. However, assuming that she were a uniformed member, she would know enough to not salute while not in uniform.