The Stars and Stripes flag hanging vertically on the wall of the US military hangar is the wrong way round.
The stars field should be on the upper left, not the upper right.
When the three men are torturing Memphis they shove water down his throat but when they pull it away the bottle is full.
When Swagger backs the car into the river, the trunk is open and you can see that there is no upholstery and it is empty.
While in the car wash we see there are miscellaneous items and upholstery in the trunk.
At the start of the film when both snipers are first seen watching the road, a close shot shows Bob Lee's rifle bolt open, another shot shows it closed.
When the order comes through to fire, Bob then loads the rifle.
The pick up truck that Swagger stole has PA plates on it front and back.
In PA there is only one plate on the vehicle, not two.
When Memphis is taken away in the van you can see he drops his phone in the middle of the sidewalk, in the next shot when the van is driving away it is on the curb.
When Swagger is shot and uses Quickclot on himself.
You DO NOT open Quickclot with your mouth - if even a small amount of it gets in your mouth it will cause a very large amount of pain and a massive case of cotton mouth.
Also, you do not use it on anything other than arms or legs, putting it on your stomach or upper chest could cause even worse problems if it were to get anywhere near your lungs or stomach.
When Memphis is in the computer room checking the VIN that Sarah gave him, he picks up the photo and begins to type in a string of numbers on the number pad.
When the shot changes to the computer monitor the VIN being entered has no numbers it only shows LFMY.
However the complete VIN of LFMYU70E4YUA65879 is already displayed in a grayed out window to the left.
In the scene where Swagger advises Payne not to call his dog, you can see that there is no license plate on the front of the vehicle, however when Swagger comes out and takes a photo with his cell phone, it is magically there.
The Medal of Honor comes in a wooden box, not a standard vinyl medal box.
In the scene where Sarah fixes Swagger's bandage at the kitchen table, in the first several frames her front hair is held back by a clip, but suddenly the clip disappears and her hair is simply back behind her ears in the rest of the scene.
When they are in Lynchburg, Virginia; we see mountains that are not located in Virginia.
When the Crown Vic is backed into the river, various camera angles show a very flat topography which is consistent with Philadelphia.
After the car is in the river, the first shot back toward the bridge clearly shows tall mountains in the background.
No such mountains exist near Philadelphia.
While Swagger is in Baltimore he walks down the steps of Federal Hill.
He enters a taxi cab on Battery Avenue that drives towards the Inner Harbor.
Battery Avenue is a "one-way" street that goes in the opposite direction (away from the harbor).
The first shot Swagger makes, kills an enemy standing in the back of a truck.
The man falls into the back of the truck.
In the next shot, when the truck falls over, the dead man in the back suddenly disappeared.
When Swagger approaches the pickup he is about to steal, a large cable-stayed bridge is visible in the background.
No such bridge is located anywhere near Philadelphia.
When Swagger is being chased by the cops, all of the cars chasing him have both front and rear plates to identify them.
However when he goes down a hill and two cop cars are following him, the second car has a plate with a number on the front, the first car has a blank plate.
The car would have a number on the front to identify the car, not just a blank plate.
The car Swagger drives in the Chase scene has PA plates but with tag numbers in the style 9999 AAA.
Pennsylvania plate numbers have three letters followed by four numbers, not vice versa.
In the bathroom scene where Swagger creates the makeshift IV, you can clearly see the areas where make-up was used to cover Wahlberg's tattoos, one on each arm and around his neck.
When Swagger is being chased by police in the stolen FBI vehicle he makes a right off Front St.
onto Girard Avenue heading south.
When he glances in his rear view mirror, a McDonalds can be seen through the windshield in front of him.
That McDonalds would only have been visible if he made a left onto Girard heading north.
In the Pennsylvania scenes NO vehicles portrayed in the movie have the required Vehicle Inspection or Emission stickers on the lower left outside of the windshield.
Mountaintop scene where the supposed exchange is about to happenthe blue helicopter's rotor is alternately rotating / not rotating between shots.
At the mountaintop exchange scene, not one of the actors seems to be effected by the considerable down-force caused by the still spinning rotor blades of the helicopter as they get out of it.
Even Fenn's shoulder-length hair moves only slightly and the snow beneath their feet seems completely unperturbed by the wind caused by the helicopter.
A helicopter touching down in a snowy location would cause a small blizzard and anyone getting out would at the very least be hunkered down and making some attempt to cover themselves from the wind and snow, rather than casually strolling along.
When Fenn fires the senator's sidearm on the mountaintop, only 4 rounds are fired before the gun clicks empty and the slides goes back, meaning that either the senator had been busy with his gun earlier or he's in the habit of carrying around a barely loaded weapon.
As Colonel Johnson leaves the Department of Justice conference room near the end of the movie, there is a US flag and a Washington, DC city flag (white with 3 red stars and 2 red stripes - based on the coat of arms of George Washington's family) in the hall.
A Federal office building would not display the Washington, DC flag, only the American flag (and perhaps a Department of Justice flag).
In opening shots, film shows Camp Lemonier to be in Ethiopia, Camp Lemonier is located in Dijobuti.
Before swagger is hit by a tractor trailer in the stolen FBI vehicle, he is seen speeding downhill towards the river.
There are no such downhill roads leading to Delaware River in Philadelphia.
The layout of land along the Delaware River is very flat.
In the glacier scene, when Sara takes her revenge on the henchman who broke into her house, she fires four rounds.
wouldn't mean much if the weapon was only partially loaded, but in the close-up showing her emotional release immediately thereafter, the bolt is shown locked back which indicates an empty magazine.
The scene *after* that close-up briefly shows the bolt in the normal position as though there are still rounds in the magazine.
Not only is Camp Lemioner in Djibouti, it is a US Navy base.
The opening scene would have you believe it is a US Army base in Ethiopia.
During the shooting scene at Michael Sandor's place, when the first agent breaks the door open and is eventually shot dead by Swagger, you can clearly see that outside it's raining heavily, while it's perfectly sunny throughout the rest of the scene.
On top of the mountain when Fenn shoots the man who captured her, the gun is empty one scene and then the scene after that the gun is reloaded.
At the beginning of the movie when the helicopter comes he switches to a Barrett M82 which is a semi-auto rifle but he is seen cycling the rifle by hand because the blanks being shot for filming did not produce enough pressure to work the action.
Towards the end of the movie it shows Memphis and Swagger standing on a bridge that is supposedly located outside of Bozeman, MT.
(1) The terrain is not even close to that of the city of Bozeman (2) There are three interstate overpasses in the city of Bozeman, and again, the terrain does not match any of the corresponding overpasses.
In the car wash scene, Swagger is applying Quikclot to two wounds, one in the shoulder/pectoral area and one in the abdomen.
Later, Fenn is cleaning the shoulder/pectoral wound, but there is no abdomen wound.
When Memphis is researching the shooting of the bishop, we see a printed version of Swagger's target on the bulletin board before Nick prints it out.
When Johnson leaves the meeting with Swagger and the Attorney General, he is seen standing by the final chair of the table.
After the AG is shown pictures by Memphis, the AG looks to Johnson and he is standing about half way down the table, not the end near Swagger.
During the scene in which Wahlberg backs the car into the river, you can see a metal bar attached to the back bumper which was used to brace the impact of the car hitting the water, and to level out the car so it would sink evenly.
When Swagger tests his rifle on the can of stew, the bullet is show striking the can from the bottom of the screen.
But at such a long distance, the shot is more like a lobthe bullet would have passed (unseen) "up" the field of view and then dropped back down onto the target.
When the archbishop is shot, the sound of the rifle shot is heard at the same time as the bullet strikes.
Depending on the speed of the bullet, it would take at least several seconds for the sound to reach the target.
When Nick Memphis is scanning through documents about Swagger, there is an article about Wimbledon Cup Winners.
The photo shows Swagger and the caption reads "Winner of the Wimbledon Cup" Sgt.
Major Bob Lee Swagger.
This is incorrect as Swagger is a Gunnery Sergeant, not a Sergeant Major.
During the ranch scene just after the flashback to the helicopter gun-run, if you look carefully enough, you can see on Swagger's M4 Carbine, that the selector switch is on Semi-Automatic.
But throughout the shootout, he fires on full-auto or in bursts.
At the beginning during the helicopter attack scene, snipers would never stand up and reveal their position while trying to shoot down the helicopter.
When Memphis is being tortured and beaten for information, he is forced to drink water out of a bottle to wash out the drugs in his system.
As he his drinking, the bottle is nearly empty but in the next shot it is full again.
When the crippled sniper shoots himself under the chin, no bullet is actually fired from the gun.
If you watch the scene frame-by-frame, a jet of air comes out of the gun and the actor's head cocks back.
His neck is intact.
In the roadblock news clip which was supposed to be the Wind River Mountain area of Wyoming, the cars behind the roadblock have no front plates.
While it is possible these could be all out of state vehicles, All Wyoming vehicles have both front and back license plates.
During the shoot-out outside Sandor's residence, Swagger fires off much more than 30 rounds without reloading.
The M4 he is using can only hold a maximum of 30 rounds in the magazine.
When the two helicopters land and Jack Payne has the shotgun pointed to Sarah Fenn, she throws off his sunglasses later you can see there are no sunglasses on the ground.
When Swagger makes the supposed intravenous needle stick, he pushes the needle straight down into the antecubetal fossa after using a tourniquet to occlude a vein to get distention for the venipuncture.
The puncture is properly made parallel to the skin surface, not deeply perpendicular as was shown.
When the diver announces what he has found to the agent by the river, he says that the Crown Vic had government plates.
However, we know from the car wash scene that the Crown Vic had Pennsylvania plates.
Swagger is referred to throughout the movie as a Marine, or 'Gunnery Sergeant'.
However, when in Ethiopia, he is wearing Army digital fatigues.
His spotter is also wearing Army Digital, and military sniping units only work together with someone of the same branch.
When Swagger says the bullets are turned to make them slippery to lower Ballistic coefficient he is wrong.
The higher the number the better.
If he had said coefficient of drag that would be correct.
When Swagger takes care of the senator and his cronies in the lodge at the end of the movie, he breaks open a gas valve.
A few moments later, the gas explodes, destroying the entire house.
The gas did not have enough time to fill the house.
Even worse, such an explosion would only happen if the gas were allowed to saturate the entire structure.
Yet, several windows were shot out, a score of bullet holes were shot into the floor and one of the senator's bodyguards fell through the ceiling and into the den, giving the gas plenty of avenues to escape.
During the mountaintop scene, the position and brightness of the sun varies from scene to scene.
For example, when Wahlburg surrenders and kneels in the snow the sun is at his back.
In the following shot he is facing the sun.
- PLOTInexplicably, the three men who plan to kill Memphis and make it look like a suicide beat him bruised and bloody beforehand.
These wounds would surely raise unwanted questions about the circumstances of his death.
During the mountaintop scene, and after shooting the last enemy sniper, Swagger pulls the hood of his winter ghillie suit off before focusing on his shot at Payne.
After taking the shot and then shooting Payne a second time, we see Swagger from a distance standing on the mountaintop where he removes the hood of the ghillie suit again.
Lynchburg, Virginia and Bozeman Mt are 2,100 miles apart.
There is no way that two drivers could cover that distance as discussed in the phone call to FBI HQ in 24 hours.
When the Spotter (Donnie Fenn) gives his Sniper (Bob Lee Swagger) range info to their first target, he says "870 yards and closing" when in fact the target is moving AWAY from their position.
Swagger shoots both the gunner in the back of the truck and the driver from behind.
Subsequent targets approach in a "closing" direction of travel.
