Goofs

Blood under Jackie's nose suddenly disappears in the middle of his fight with Burt.

During Max and Nick's first meeting in Nick's jazz club, the level of Nick's drink fluctuates randomly.

Brian disappears briefly from the passenger seat of the car as he goes to pick up Nick from the sewer.

During the scene in which Nick and Diane discuss their future over champagne, their glasses are fuller in long shots than in close-ups.

In the park scene when Jack meets the Ironclad employee and his cousin, in between shots the wind velocity and direct change constantly.

When Nick uses water from the fire sprinkler system to fill the safe, that should have triggered a water flow alarm. There is a detection switch that sounds an alarm if water begins flowing through the system (as this is typically caused by a sprinkler head discharging water to put out a fire), which would summon the Fire Department. In addition the water flowing out of the pipe should have been a dark brown color, not crystal clear as shown in the movie. The stagnant water in fire sprinkler systems always contains high amounts of rust, pipe oil, pipe sealant, and other sediment.

Nick uses a PVS-14 night vision monocular to see the IR beams while he is in the basement about to go into the cage containing the safe. However IR beams do not show up red, they show up white when using night vision devices.

The method used to blow the door off the safe by filling it with water and then igniting a charge would have completely crushed the scepter and the metal box it was in. Besides, safes aren't watertight.

When Nick opens the second valve to let the water flow, it should steam when it hits the freshly-cut steel, but it doesn't.

Max says the piano was infested with Asian Longhorn beetles and says they are termites. Termites are not beetles nor are they wood boring.

When Max writes the location for Nick to exchange the scepter for the money, he doesn't give it to Nick. As Nick leaves, his hands are empty and we didn't see him put it in his pocket. A long shot of Max shows that the paper is no where in sight.

When Nick goes to let Diane in for their dinner there is a torrential downpour outside but Diane comes in completely dry.

When Jack and Burt are in the car on their way to pick up Nick from his underground reconnoiter, there is a lamp inside the car that is shining on Jack's face, and is turned off as the car approaches the camera.

In the 9th minute when Nick leaves the hideout, the window of the business next to them reads 'Miss Universe' but there is no phone number listed.

In the 97th minute while Jack is playing Nick, the latter suspended from the ceiling, one hear Nick breathing. For this to be heard by Jack, Nick would need to be holding down the transmission button of his radio.

The coordinates that Jack gives to Nick are not of the customs house, which is easily located at latitude 45.502520 and longitude -73.554294, and could have been found on the Internet even when the movie was made. The coordinates shown in the movie are right in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

As Nick drives his balloon van to his safe house after the opening scene robbery, he makes a right turn at the "Last U.S.A. Exit, East U.S. 78." U.S. Route 78 runs from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina, nowhere near the Canadian border.

The bus stop at which Brian gets off the bus on his way to the customs house does not exist. No buses run near the Montreal customs house.

The final bus station Jack runs to does not exist. The establishing shot before depicting a Montreal landmark facing the bus stop would place it in the middle of a popular tourist area opened only to pedestrians and cyclists in the old port of Montreal.

During the planning of the robbery, it is stated that the basement of the Customs House is the most secure lockup in Eastern Canada. Yet, somehow, the Canadian authorities did not realize there was a storm drain right in the middle of the basement which gave access to a public sewer, large enough for anyone to walk through and climb up to right underneath the basement and fairly easily cut through the grate to gain access to the internal security cages.

Jack, in his persona of Brian, frequently stops portraying Brian as having cognitive/mental health issues as soon as his co-workers disappear. Considering the number of CCTV cameras the building would have, this seems unlikely as he appears indifferent to the cameras.

Would an important place storing many valuable items really hire a man without carefully checking his background, which was fake?

Much more likely to hire someone whom an existing trusted member of staff could vouch for. Or with a trustworthy background like police or army.

If Jack were caught, which he might well be, he would have every interest in telling all. Nick would have trouble explaining where he got six million from. He appears to be unknown to the local police, having always done crimes elsewhere.

Being a careful planner, Nick should have told Jack he would get a share and be looked after in prison if he were caught.

How and where does Nick switch the real scepter with the fake one and where does he have the fake one before the switch.

When they are exploring the underground tunnel system, Jack reads the map and guides Nick through the network via hand-held radio. Radio transmissions can be intercepted/overheard, and relaying navigation instructions is inefficient. Why not just give a copy of the map to Nick?

When Steven explains to Nick Wells how he hacked in to Ironclads secure server, he states that he got in at a "root COBOL level". COBOL Common Business Oriented Language is an obsolete mainframe programming language and has absolutely nothing to do with breaking into computer systems, and even less can you be at any form of "COBOL level" when visiting a remote computer.

In the 57th minute when Nick brings Jack to his office, he asks Jack if he wants coffee, to which he responds in the affirmative. They never make or have coffee.

In the 40th minute Jack instructs Nick, in the Customs House, by radio to take the parallel tunnel about 150 yards. Nick replies, "About 300 yards" and is not corrected.

In Steven's first shot, in the bottom left-hand of the frame his right hand is moving the computer mouse erratically and somewhat irrationally.