Goofs for
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Boom mic visible: After Riley jumps into his shiny red Ferrari, a reflection is seen in the car's paint on screen left.
  
  
• Continuity: During the chase scene in London, the Range Rover gets the front end damaged when it hits the back of a large truck. In later scenes during the same chase, sometimes no damage appears on the vehicle.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Obvious floodlights hidden behind rocks throughout the climactic cave scenes.
  
  

• Factual errors: Dr. Appleton says that the Indian language is Olmec. However, the Olmec people inhabited south-central Mexico, and their language nor culture never reached 2,000 miles north to present-day South Dakota. Therefore, the entire premise of the city of gold is misplaced by a continent.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ben Gates is speaking at the conference in the beginning of the movie, the camera is panning back and forth around the one column. On one of the first pans around the column, if you look closely, you will notice that the voice of Gates does not match his lips in the shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While sitting in the Gates' household using his laptop, the apple on Riley Poole's Black MacBook is not lit up, yet Riley is working on the laptop. The apple on MacBooks lights up when the screen is on, because the light to illuminate the symbol comes from the light used to illuminate the screen. Therefore, MacBook Poole is working on is asleep or turned off.
  
  
• Factual errors: Gold was barely, or completely unknown to the ancient Olmec culture. Of course further cultures found it, and used it, but it was a couple hundred years later.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Abigail Chase talks about the seal which refers to the President's Book of Secrets, she mistakenly says that the scroll the eagle holds is instead of the olive branch, which can clearly be seen in the eagle's right claw (to our left). The scroll is actually replacing the arrows that are usually in the eagle's left claw (on our right).
  
  
• Factual errors: At the end of the movie when Riley Poole gets his Ferrari again, you can clearly hear him letting go of the clutch without having the car properly in gear. At the same time you can see that the car has F1 paddle-shifters on the steering wheel, which means that the car doesn't have a manual clutch, making the mis-shift sound impossible for this car.
  
  
• Factual errors: Abraham and Mary-Todd Lincoln appear to be the only occupants of the presidential box at Ford's Theatre, but Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée Clara Harris also sat in the double box with the President and First Lady. After shooting President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth stabbed Major Rathbone in the arm before jumping down to the stage; this action which is omitted in the film.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the group see an altar in the City of Gold, and Emily exclaims that that "this will really open up the study of the pre-Columbian language", the writing visible is Chinese seal script, completely unrelated to Olmec.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the movie, you can see the whole crew on the reflection of the Ferrari's paint.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The car chase from Buckingham Palace shows Ben crossing the Thames over Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament in the background. The chase then continues cutting various shots from Bishopsgate, Fenchurch Street, Threadneedle Street and at one point destroying a statue in Holborn. Ben then crosses Southwark Bridge from the north bank throws the piece of wood off the bridge. None of the places shown are in any geographical order.
  
  
• Factual errors: Booth's diary, according to the latest FBI research, is missing 43 separate sheets of paper (or 86 pages), not the 18 mentioned in the movie.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the car chase in London, the Mercedes always has British license plates, but for a split second one can see a German (Stuttgart) front license plate.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The President tells our heroes to look in the Library of Congress and gives them a call number that begins with XY. There is no X (and therefore, no XY schedule) in the Library of Congress classification system. (This may have been intentional so that people don't go looking for that call number).
  
  
• Continuity: Abigail sees the earpiece in Ben's ear when they are in London. The earpiece then disappears and is never seen again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While being chased through London, Ben asks Abigail if her phone has a camera so that he can take a picture of the wooden plank found in the resolute desk. She says that her phone's camera is broken and hence they have to use the traffic camera to get a picture of the plank. Riley fails to notice/mention however that his MacBook has a camera right in the top bezel.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Ben first finds the wooden board containing "pre-columbian" writing, he remarks that "These markings look Incan or Aztec." In fact the Inca never developed a formal writing system.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, the Ferrari is parked several car lengths in front of any other cars or objects. Then Riley somehow crashes into something after moving the car backward only a few feet.
  
  
• Continuity: During the SUV chase with the metal pillar barricade rising, you can see the front car seat heads moved from up to down.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the scene at Mt. Rushmore, it shows them climbing to a lake right behind the sculpture. There is no lake behind Mt. Rushmore. The lake they portray is actually in Custer State Park.
  
  
• Continuity: In the London chase scene, the heroes' car is shot at before it even begins to move and both front and back windshield are shot out as well as bullet holes appearing all over the car. In subsequent shots, it's either partially damaged, all damaged, or entirely un-damaged (one noticeable shot has the rear window broken out while the front windshield is intact).
  
  
• Factual errors: Buckingham Palace is only open to visitors at the end of August and the beginning of September, when the Queen is visiting other palaces. Yet less than three days after breaking into Buckingham, and stealing the plank from the first desk, the treasure hunters attend the Easter celebration at the White House.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the FBI is attempting to find a spot for the President's birthday party, a shot is shown of a computer screen with possible sites. One of the hotels is the Denby Hotel; however, in the shot, it is spelled "Denbe."
  
  
• Plot holes: The inscription on the small version of the Statue of Liberty in Paris points to the Resolute desks in Buckingham Palace and the White House, but these desks were made from a ship that was not retired until 1879, while the inscription on the statue was supposedly written three years before that. There was no way for Laboulaye to have known that a ship named Resolute would be retired three years later and turned into matching office furniture.
  
  
• Factual errors: In 1865, Thomas Gates is asked to decode a Playfair cipher that Confederate conspirators hope will help them locate a hidden treasure (presumably Cibola: The Lost City of Gold). This is the very same clue that Benjamin Gates uses in 2007 to do just that. Part of the deciphered clue (found on one of the missing Booth diary pages) is: Laboulaye Lady, a clue that leads them to the Statue of Liberty replica in Paris. Unfortunately this statue did not even exist in 1865 and it would be more than 20 years before it would be built. So the Playfair cipher would seem to be leading the Knights of the Golden Circle to a clue and a location that doesn't exist yet. Even if Thomas Gates had deciphered the message for the KGC in 1865, it would have been useless to them. Furthermore, the secret message found on the statue (dated 1876) makes reference to the Resolute desks, which again did not exist yet as the HMS Resolute was still a commissioned vessel in 1876 and the desks would not be made from its timbers until 1880. So any clues to the location of Cibola that might be hidden in these two desks certainly could not have been there in 1865 as the desks themselves would not be there either and in 1876 (four years before the desks were actually built) Laboulaye would have had no knowledge of their future existence. All of these clues would be worthless to anybody in 1865 and therefore make the entire plot of the movie not only implausible, but also impossible.
  
  
• Factual errors: Two desks were indeed made from the dismantled timbers of the HMS Resolute. One of those desks is the desk sitting in the Oval Office, which has been used by just about every President since Hayes, who first received it as a gift from Queen Victoria in 1880. The second desk, however, does not, nor did it ever, reside in the Queen's Palace. It was gifted to Henry Grinnell, and is now in the possession of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in Massachusetts. The directors probably chose to ignore this fact because they figured it would be more exciting to break into the Queen's Palace than the Whaling Museum.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wilkinson is climbing the ladder from the balance rock in the cave, in one scene his holster is clearly visible from the back. In the next scene the holster has mysteriously disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben, Patrick and Riley are trying to figure out the key to the cipher, a Red Bull can is clearly seen to Riley's right. However, in the rest of the shots during this scene, it mysteriously disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben and Abigail are investigating the Resolute Desk in the Queen's Study in Buckingham Palace, they pull the drawers out to try one combination. When that is unsuccessful, they try another. You can see them pulling out the drawers again, even though they were never pushed back in.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Booth diary page is shown during the Civil War era scene at the beginning of the film, the names are written on the left page with the cipher information on the right. Later, when pulled out of the fire, only the bottom of the page is burned. However, when the page is presented during the speech at the Civilian Heroes ceremony, the entire right side of the page is burned. Also, when they match the page to the diary, Patrick Gates says that the section after Thomas Gates' name is burned off. However, when matched to the diary, the edges of the page are no longer burned.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene at the egg roll, the child says that Booth crossed the only bridge open out of Washington to escape, saying it was an example of a conspiracy. However the Long Bridge which Booth crossed that night was indeed closed at the time of his crossing. Booth was a well known celebrity in Washington and simply charmed the guard in charge (who was unaware of the assassination) into letting him across after hours.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Ben is trying to decrypt the Playfair Cipher, he says the keyword must be 5 letters long and tries a variety of 5 letter words. Actually, when using this encryption method the keyword/key-phrase can be shorter or longer provided it makes a 5 x 5 table of non-repeating letters.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Ben skids the rental car and hits the double bus, the car supposedly gets badly dented on the left side. In the next scene, you see that the car has a huge dent on the right side and in the scene after that, there are no dents on either side.
  
  
• Continuity: While Ben is in his father's study, talking to Patrick, there is a clearly visible map of Massachusetts directly behind Patrick. When the angle changes, the map behind Patrick continuously changes from a map of Massachusetts to a different map. This change happens several times throughout the conversation.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first National Treasure film, Ben's grandfather John Adams Gates tells Ben that Charles Carroll gave the Charlotte clue to "my grandfather's grandfather, Thomas Gates" in 1832. This means there are five generations of Gates's between Thomas and Ben. However, in the second film, Thomas Gates is shown in 1865 to have a son, Charles, whom Patrick Gates (Ben's father) says is his grandfather - which means Thomas Gates was really only John Gates's grandfather, not his grandfather's grandfather. Even considering there may have been two Thomases in the Gates family tree (the one shown in the first movie and the one in the second), the situation is unrealistic; to satisfy John Gates's historical description, both the first Thomas Gates, his son, and the second Thomas Gates would have had to have their first child at age eleven.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Miniature Stature of Liberty is located on the Seine in Paris, but not in the spot that the movie portrays.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the car chase, Ben runs a red light to get a photo of the plank. That photo must be from a speed camera, not a red light camera. The text at the top says that the speed limit is 70 km/h. In the UK speeds are measured in mph, not km/h. In most of London the speed limit is 30 mph or 48 km/h, not 70. When they were crossing Westminster bridge, the clock on St. Stephen's Clock Tower (aka Big Ben) showed about 8:20, and yet the timestamp in the photo says 13:37, more than 5 hours later.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the film President Coolidge is alleged to have built Mount Rushmore as a way of hiding away the City of Gold. In reality, Coolidge spent three months away from Washington, D.C., vacationing in South Dakota, where he went fishing daily. During that time, his favorite fishing spot was replenished with fish nightly by the locals of South Dakota, which made President's Coolidge's fishing all the more enjoyable (and explains his extended vacation). The result of his being wooed by the residents (as well as the fish) of South Dakota resulted in President Coolidge's decision to give the go-ahead for Mt. Rushmore to be built in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a state which was in dire need of a tourist attraction. It worked: Mount Rushmore attracts an average of two million visitors a year.
  
  
• Factual errors: Ben Gates says that the expression, "His name is mud," has its origin in Dr Samuel Mudd, who set John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln's assassination and was thereby taken to be one of the conspirators. In fact, the expression dates to the 1820s, some 40 years before Lincoln was assassinated.
  
  
• Plot holes: Throughout the entire London car chase, not one single police car is seen, despite the shots being fired, vehicles being wrecked, dozens of traffic violations and tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to property. Given that this is supposedly in the centre of London, where on any given day you can see more than a dozen police cars just driving along simply by standing in the same place for ten minutes, the lack of police presence is fairly implausible.
  
  
• Plot holes: Even though Ben nor Patrick nor Emily mention the Cascajal Block - a carved slab with 62 glyphs which dates to the Olmec's San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán phase - as to why they think the plank is Olmec, the glyphs on the Block that match the glyphs on some Olmec artifacts have never been identified as writing, and the rest of the glyphs on the Block are unknown and indecipherable. So, Emily is wrong when she says that the plates in the City of Gold will help decipher the Olmec language.
  
  
• Continuity: As the walls of the City of Gold burst and water begins to fill up, the group gets drenched. Yet, as they enter the chamber while following the water currents moments later, Wilkinson is dry from the waist up.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The President tells Ben that he majored in Architectural History at Yale. Yale does not offer a degree in Architectural History.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the movie, when Ben Gates walks with Abigail Chase and sits on the wall (night scene at Mt. Rushmore after Riley is asked to autograph his book), a crew member's hand is seen at the lower right of Ben Gates on the other side of the wall, directing Nicholas Cage on which way/where to look.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Ben and Riley are in Paris and flying the toy chopper you can see the Eiffel Tower on the screen on Riley's control. In the next scene when Ben talks with the French police you can see the Eiffel Tower on the other side of the bridge.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene where Gates kidnaps the President at Mount Vernon, the Maryland State Police are patrolling the water where the elder Gates pretends to fish. Mount Vernon is located just outside of Alexandria, Virginia. However, the Potomac River belongs to the state of Maryland. Moreover, given that the President of the United States was at Mt. Vernon, there would have been an increased number of police and secret service patrolling the area during the evening. Therefore there could have been Maryland State Police and Virgina State Police on the river that evening.
  
  
• Continuity: The picture Gates takes with his mobile camera of the document is different from what his father gets as picture message.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When John Wilkes Booth is told to leave the saloon that he is in, just before the assassination of Lincoln, it shows him traveling to Ford's Theater by horse. In fact, the saloon that Booth visited just before the assassination is actually right next door adjoining Ford's Theater and now the present location of the Hard Rock Cafe-DC. However, it is an historical fact that he rode away from Ford's Theater.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Knights of the Golden Circle was reorganized as the Order of American Knights in 1863, then as the Order of the Sons of Liberty in 1864.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Knights of the Golden Circle was a secret order of anti-abolitionists founded by Northerners in 1854 who wanted to invade Mexico, and turn it, the South, the West Indies, and part of Central America into a slave empire encompassing an area 2,400 miles in diameter (hence "the Golden Circle"), not a group of Southerns trying to subvert Union troops as Ben claims in his lecture.
  
  
• Factual errors: The pin the Knights of the Golden Circle member wears features the head of what looks suspiciously like the Statue of Liberty, which makes sense, given the film's plot, but, in actuality, the Knights of the Golden Circle did not use a woman as one of its symbols.
  
  
• Factual errors: Never well-funded or organized, the the Knights of the Golden Circle dissolved before the end of the Civil War. In fact, the membership expelled the group's main founder in 1860 due to his sheer ineptitude.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film implies that the Knights of the Golden Circle was engaged by the Confederacy to find the City of Gold. There isn't any evidence that the Confederacy engaged the Knights of the Golden Circle in any capacity.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mitch Wilkinson's team (with Ben's mother prisoner) are climbing the stairs to Mount Rushmore, they are looking at the traffic camera picture of Ben holding the 1st wooden carving. While they potentially could have had a copy from Ben's mother, they had the original for her to translate.
  
  
• Factual errors: Riley says that the symbol for the presidential book was released in 1966 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIA was signed in 1966, but didn't go in to effect until 1967.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While in the City of Gold, Riley handles a very large gold brick with one hand and easily places it in his bag. A gold brick as large as the one pictured would weigh in the neighborhood of 150lbs and would require two or more people to lift.
  
  
• Continuity: When first approaching the Resolute Desk in the White House, the spring-loaded cornice piece is out, despite the fact that Gates has not yet done the combination yet.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the chase scene through London, the backup camera of the Mercedes flips up and 2 people walk out of the building on the right. When the camera switches to the view out the back window, the 2 people walk out again. In a later shot, the 2 people walk out a third time.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Mercedes' back up camera flips up at the beginning of the chase scene, the restaurant on the right of the screen is completely empty. In the next shot, there is a waiter cleaning a table.
  
  
• Plot holes: Finding the Treasure does not at all prove the innocence of Thomas Gates. It is possible that Gates could have been helping Booth find the treasure the night of the assassination, while also still being a conspirator.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the infiltration of Buckingham Palace, Gates states that The Queen was not in residence due to the absence of a flag flying there. In fact there is always a flag flying at the palace. Prior to the death of Diana the presence of the Queen was indicated by the flying of a flag, however at the time of Diana's death the palace wished to fly a flag at half mast as a mark of respect. Since then The Union flag is flown when the Queen is not in residence and the Royal Standard is flown when she is. This allows for a flag to be flown at half mast during a time of mourning.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Riley is in the restroom at Buckingham Palace, the toilet in the booth that he chose is clearly an American-style toilet, and not a British toilet that would normally be present at Buckingham Palace. (The scene was filmed in a hotel in Los Angeles.)
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene when the group is escorted to talk to the president after finding the treasure, the guard leading Ben by the arm has no gloves on, the camera pans out and comes back, and the guard is wearing a glove, another pan and back again, and the glove is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When John Wilkes Booth first hands his diary to Thomas Gates in the saloon, there are very clearly four names above Thomas Gates' name on the left hand page. But when Thomas Gates looks at the diary, there are only three names above his. In the next scene at the Civilian Heroes ceremony, the partially burned left hand diary page again has four names above Thomas Gates' name.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end when they find the hidden city. The two groups walk in and see each other and Nicholas Cage yells "Jon we found it" referring to Patrick Gates - played by Jon Voight.
  
  
• Factual errors: The film shows John Wilkes Booth and Michael O'Laughlen as being members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. They actually weren't, but another conspirator, John Surratt, was.
  
  
• Continuity: The same shot of Wilkinson's henchman cocking his gun is used twice during the car chase scene.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the shot from inside the cave before they enter, there's a silhouette on the left side of the screen. After they all have entered the cave the figure is still visible and actually moves at the bottom of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ben prepares to put his hand into the bird at Mount Rushmore, he does not have a watch on, but, the first time his puts his hand in, we see a watch. When he puts his hand in again, the watch is gone, then, in subsequent shots, it moves up and down his wrist.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Ben and what he brought with him are drenched as as result of his exploits at Mount Rushmore, yet he is still able to use his cell phone to call Sadusky.
  
  
• Factual errors: We hear the audience react immediately when Booth shoots Lincoln. In fact, the audience didn't realize what had happened until several minutes after Booth left; as he was a popular actor, when he leapt onto the stage, they naturally thought that Booth was part of the play.
  
  
• Factual errors: Lincoln conspirator Michael O'Laughlen is depicted as a middle-aged man. In fact, O'Laughlen was 24 in April 1865.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Ben and Patrick show Emily the picture of the plank from Buckingham Palace, saying they think the plank might be Olmec, Emily agrees, replying "definately Proto-Zoquean". Proto-Zoquean followed Epi-Olmec, which followed Olmec.
  
  
• Errors in geography: After discovering that Edouard de Laboulaye is the next clue and that he was a mason, Patrick says that there are three Statues of Liberty. He neglects to mention that there are actually TWO in Paris besides the one in the Luxembourg Gardens. The Statue that Riley and Ben go to is located on the Allee des Cygnes, about 1.5 kilometers downriver from the Eiffel Tower; it faces southwest and towards the Statue in New York City. In the shots where Riley is piloting the toy helicopter and Ben is chatting with the police officers, the Eiffel Tower looks much closer than approximately 1.5 kilometers because this was filmed on the Pont de Bir-Hakeim Bridge, about 750 metres from the Tower. Finally, the Statue on the Allee des Cygnes faces away from the Pont de Grenelle and is much further away from the Eiffel Tower than shown (a fact seen clearly on Riley's remote while inspecting the torch). The Statue at the Luxembourg Gardens is Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's personal model that he donated to the Gardens.
  
  
• Continuity: In the car chase that took place in London, Wilkinson's Land Rover pulls up on the side of the bridge after he punctures his tire. The camera then zooms in on his front bumper bar slightly hitting a construction barrier, but in the next shot from a distance, the car is clearly nowhere near the barrier.
  
  
• Factual errors: The account of Esteban in the book is fiction. Esteban and his master were two of four survivors of a 1528 (not 1527, as stated in the book) Florida expedition (which did not shipwreck, as stated in the book), and beached on present-day Follett's Island, Texas on a makeshift raft. Upon their return to Spain, they related the stories from the natives about seven cities of gold, which seemed to confirm a legend from the mid-12th century: in order to protect their sacred religious relics from the conquering Moors, seven bishops fled Mérida to a then-unknown land to hide them; the hiding places eventually grew to seven cities of untold riches, one of which was called "Cibola". Esteban did return to the New World, as the book says, but as a guide in a 1539 expedition to find the cities, not as its leader.
  
  
• Factual errors: The book says that George Custer's "last stand" was the result of his search for gold. Custer was ordered to go to the Black Hills as part of a larger contingency to capture the remaining free Indians in that area.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Ben breaks into Abigail's house, the camera angle gradually moves upward. If you look toward the front door while the camera shot is moving you can see crew members (most likely camera men) scuffling by quickly to not be caught on camera.
  
  
• Continuity: Just after Ben mentions Montesquieu to the policeman, the second policeman's head changes position between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Ben does not look through his camera's viewer when he takes a picture of the plank holder in the president's desk, and the camera is several inches away, yet the viewer later displays a perfect close-up of the secret seal.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Patrick uses the term "pre-Colonial Native American" while examining the plank. Such a term is not used by archaeologists or historians.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When water breaks through the walls in the City of Gold, it is going through preformed squares.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Ben presses the service button after he and Abigail get into the lift, then shuts the doors. In real-life, the lift can only move if the doors are closed when the buttons are pressed.
  
  
• Factual errors: Although a cell phone can be "cloned" in real life, the "cloned" phone cannot allow its user to eavesdrop on a connection made between the "host" phone and another phone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While looking at the Statue of Liberty, Ben says "Laboulaye had to leave a clue somewhere", but his mouth doesn't move.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the kegs roll off the truck, small squibs can be seen going off to make it look as through they have been shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The toy bunny Ben has in his jacket pocket is different from the toy bunny he brings into the Oval Office.
  
  
• Continuity: A pistol holster through Wilkinson's belt loops can be seen as he jumps to the hanging ladder in the City of Gold. When we next cut to him, the holster is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Patrick Gates goes to Dr. Appleton's office for a translation, the door he enters through changes: the door from the hallway is a completely different door in the next shot.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After his Ferrari is impounded Riley states that the taxes on 5 million dollars is 6 million dollars. According to the first movie he got 1/2 of 1 percent of the value of the Templar Treasure, Gates said the value was 10 billion dollars. Which means Riley would have gotten 50 million dollars, not 5 million.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the chase outside the Library of congress, Ben jumps into the back of Abigal's Mercedes SUV by putting the trunk hatch up. However, in the next shot, when they jump out into the street, the trunk hatch is closed.
  
  
• Continuity: When they're all in the Mercedes using the backup camera to guide them through the alley, and they come to a stop for a bunch of dogs, one of them licks the camera. On the screen it shows the dog licking the camera directly, but from the outside it shows the dog licking the rear bumper. On that model Mercedes the backup camera is directly beneath the trunk lid, so the dog wasn't actually licking the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Patrick is examining the picture of the plank on Reilly's laptop, they show the back of the laptop and it is silver, but when they show the screen of the laptop, it is black. Also, at the end of the scene, there is a wider angle shot showing the entire room and everyone in it, here you can see the laptop back has mysteriously changed to black.
  
  
• Continuity: The same shot of Ben's hand as he prepares to put it into the bird at Mount Rushmore is used twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The same late-model black Eddie Bauer Bronco is seen in several distant scenes; behind Ben as he walks across a parking lot, and later beside Abigail's Mercedes behind the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ben and Abigail are fighting in Buckingham Palace. Ben takes a ride down the banister when Abigail shouts "Ben" the sound is before her mouth is moving.
  
  

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