When the ring case in the safety deposit box is opened, the Cartier logo is smaller, with "London" and "Paris" visible under the logo. Later, when Detective Frazier shows the ring in the box to the mayor, the logo is a different Cartier logo.
At the beginning the flag poles are empty. In the next shot there are flags on them.
After the detective finds and destroys the "bug" in the police van that the mastermind had been listening to, the detective tries unsuccessfully to have the police captain call off the siege. The captain announces that they're going in, after which the mastermind tells his team, "They're coming in." But he wouldn't have heard anything after the moment the bug had been found and destroyed, so he could have only guessed at what the police were going to do next.
When Det. Frazier enters the bank to take a tour of the hostages with Dalton, Steve-O (James Ransone) is tied up with the "trouble maker" group, mouths gagged but eyes not covered. This means Steve (Carlos Andrés Gómez) is the male robber following Frazier at gunpoint with Dalton. Yet when Frazier decides to "attack" Dalton, leading them to both fall down the stairs, its Steve-O who breaks up the fight at the bottom of the steps and then confronts Dalton, with Steve at his side about letting Frazier get the jump on him. In those moments, it would have been impossible for Steve-O to go from hostage in back room to robber with full face covering holding AK-47 at front bank door, without blowing his cover.
When we first see Madeline White she has a bit of hair wrapped around her pony tail. Later when she meets with Case there is no "wrapper." Then it is back when she meets with the mayor.
In the last scene, Frazier empties his pockets to end the day. He takes his magazine out of his gun to disarm it, but we see there is no ammo in the magazine. A detective would never carry an unloaded firearm.
When referring to his exploits in the war, the bank president's lips reveal him saying it was "fifty years ago" but the sound has been dubbed to "sixty years ago".
The lock box is picked correctly towards the end of the movie when Detective Frazier is in the vault by removing the nose to access the levers. However, earlier in the movie it is done wrong. The nose remains on the box yet the thieves are still able to pick it.
In the end credits, the word "Mobile" is repeatedly misspelled "Mobil".
Detective Fraizer's promotion letter was dated August 12, 2005. This means that the robbery occurred on August 5, 2005. During the robbery, a hostage mentions that he has Mets tickets and Pedro (Pedro Martinez) is pitching. On August 5, 2005, the Mets did play at home and defeated the Chicago Cubs by a score of 9-5. However, Tom Glavine was the starting pitcher for the Mets, and not Pedro Martinez.
When the 'hostage' is dragged kicking and screaming by his ankles through the rooms of the bank, he pulls a pile of books over that are stacked next to the doorway. Later in the film when the police storm the building, the books are neatly stacked back at the side of the door. However, it is entirely possible that either one of the robbers or hostages stacked the books back up during the course of the film.
When the note asking for food is sent out, Captain Darius reads aloud "fifty hungry people need food now" but the note can be seen to read "fifty plus hungry people food now".
This is not a technical goof by the film makers, it's more likely to be the character paraphrasing the message.
This is not a technical goof by the film makers, it's more likely to be the character paraphrasing the message.
During the final conversation between Detective Frazier and Arthur Case, all of the discussion about the diamond ring was added later in editing. When Frazier mentions the ring, it is clear that the video has been slowed down, and his mouth does not match up to the words being said. In addition, a picture of a hand with a ring on the middle finger was inserted into the scene - first moving up into the shot, and then moving down off screen. As Frazier turns his head away, additional dialog was added about his intention to investigate the ring's history.
Obvious stunt double when Frazier and Russell fall down the stairs. Frazier has a shaved head while the stunt man has a full head of hair.
At the end of the film, Dalton is leaving the "storage room". On the left side of the screen, one can see a set of doors that have glass over them, and a short distance back, outside windows with sunlight streaming in.
The distance is too short to match up to the apparent length of the storage room as seen in the earlier parts of the film. There is also no indication that there could be any ceiling over that space.
As the ESU team is approaching the vault during the Capt's break-down of their entry, the Sgt.'s (Guy on the left of the screen) weapon fires two-three times before any visual is made of Dalton. Once as he comes around the column and another time as he walks toward the vault. It appears to be a mistake on the actor or malfunction of the weapon.
When the captain finds the fake blood apparatus, he operates the plunger without gloves on, ruining any possible fingerprints.
When the NYPD ESU is initially setting up around the bank at 20 Exchange Place, Manhattan, FDNY Engine 332 arrives on the scene. FDNY Engine Company 332 is based in Brooklyn, on Bradford St., not Manhattan.
Although Russell disabled the security cameras before the rest of the robbers entered, Detective Frazier could've easily determined who the perpetrators were (with the exception of Russell who left separately) through simple process of elimination. Anyone who exited the bank but was not shown entering it on the security footage is likely involved.
The cops are supposedly fooled when the gang play part of a speech in Albanian by the late Enver Hoxha to fool their listening devices. But even though they don't know the language, they ought to notice that it sounds like a monologue by one man rather than a possible conversation between four bank robbers, one of them female.
After one week passes and the robber leaves his "cell", his accomplices come to pick him up outside of the bank. Those same accomplices were photographed and questioned by the police they day the siege entered. With every other aspect of the mission being so perfectly planned, there is no way the perpetrators would take the chance of showing up themselves at the bank to pick up their accomplice and risk blowing the whole caper.
The robbers could have been identified based on the collected cell phones. Either they didn't add them to the bag the detectives found, they brought burner phones that would be suspicious, or they could have tracked the phone history (location pings, brand new, etc).