The casino manager is seen in two places at the same time. First, he is with Saul when the briefcase is being taken to the vault, while at the same time he is meeting Benedict and Linus as they are escorting Frank out of the casino.
When Rusty and Linus are in the conservatory discussing Tess, Rusty is shown eating shrimp cocktail out of a champagne glass. The scene cuts to another camera angle, which shows Rusty eating shrimp cocktail off of a plate.
Frank is squeezing the salesman's hand when buying the van. As the deal is agreed the salesman rubs his right hand with his left but in the next shot Frank still has hold of the salesman's right hand.
After the "pinch" goes off, and all power comes back on, the cell phone in Tess's pocket rings. She pulls out the cell phone, and pulls the antenna up, but in the flashback when Danny puts the phone in her pocket, the antenna is already pulled out.
Brad Pitt calls Julia Roberts as the casino is being robbed. He is then seen in swat gear lifting the face shield leaving the casino. He can't be in two places at once.
Electronic circuitry disabled by EMP does not come back on again after a short period of time. It is destroyed and needs to be replaced.
Terry Benedict owns the three casinos because he bought them, not because he built them. Their original owners would have been competitors, and thus would never have shared a common vault. The same is true for any other casino that could accept a sale at any time. Even casinos originally built by the same company could be sold to competitors.
A nuclear explosion by no means always causes an EMP. The weapon ideally needs to be detonated high up in space or at the very least very high up in the atmosphere.
In the first of the movie when Ocean is playing poker in the instruction room, the second bettor "sees your 500 and also raises you 500". This is a string bet and not allowed in normal poker rooms. The correct action would be just to announce "raise 500". However, since they were just taught how to play poker, he wouldn't know that.
When Saul is talking to Rusty at the Racetrack (Derby Lanes in St. Petersburg), Saul says "...I'm seeing a nice lady who works the unmentionables counter at Macy's". At the time the movie was filmed there were no Macy's in the St. Petersburg area. However, real locations in movies rarely match the reality. Things like this are solely up to the writer.
Rusty asks Danny, "How was the clink? Did you get the cookies I sent?". Danny replies, "Why do you think I came to see you first?" But in fact, Danny had already visited Frank Catton, so Rusty wasn't the first he came to see. However, Danny implies that Rusty thinks he came to see him first. He never actually says it.
When Benedict and Saul/Zerga are waiting for the couriers, they are standing outside the MGM Grand. However, it's strongly implied that the control room and the vault are located at the Bellagio. The Bellagio and MGM Grand are about one mile apart. It is unclear how that distance was covered by Benedict and Zerga within minutes. However, in movie world, locations are apart as far as the writer wants them to be apart, e.g. Duffy Square (the red steps in Times Square) could two minutes away from the Times Square subway station on 42nd street, even though the steps are between 46th and 47th street.
Why did Saul need to smuggle the explosives into the vault disguised as jewels inside the briefcase? Yen could have simply brought them with him when he was carted into the vault. However, if you take a closer look at the cash cart, it's hardly big enough to fit in a grown man (even though, Yen is kinda short). Since the hole is circular (through which he enters the cart), it would be nearly impossible to be able to put a rectangular item such as the briefcase (and especially of that size) through that hole. Yen also has the 30-minute oxygen supply, in there, so I'm sure he has other worries than that.
When Yen is doing the real job you can see that his foot hit the laser without setting the alarm.
When the van backs up to the California Institute of Advanced Science Linus waits inside the van. A few minutes later he exits the van. As he pushes the door closed the light inside the van goes out before the door slams shut.
During the fight bout, the extra next to Julia Roberts' character breaks character by looking down as if to check they're still filming.
When Danny is getting his beating from Bruiser, it cuts to show the two guards outside who can hear every little noise in the room. How is it, then, that they did not hear Danny and Bruiser corroborating, "Bruiser! Not until later". "Sorry, Danny!" and the friendly conversation immediately following.
Despite repeated warnings about Benedict, should he ever find out who was responsible for the heist, the crew leaves all of the equipment behind in their room - which would not only be covered with each of their fingerprints but could possibly be traced back to Reuben as their supplier.
During Benedict's flashback, there is a close-up of Danny Ocean dropping a cellphone into Tess' coat pocket during an embrace. However, during the actual event Ocean's hand never drops, holding her right arm during the entire embrace.
In the newspaper article Danny is reading while waiting on Frank, Terry's last name is spelled Benidict.
When Virgil and Turk bump into each other in the casino and start "arguing", their mouths don't move. (Visible only in full screen version.)
The scene at the start of the fight shows an outside view of the MGM Grand with clouds above and behind the hotel building as the fight announcer says "On a perfectly clear night in Las Vegas..."
As Tess is observing the painting just before Terry Benedict joins her, the man on her left side (who gives an explanation) wears glasses that reflect the camera crew.
The camera and operator are reflected in the narrow mirror at Reuben Tishkoff's house as the gang discusses the robbery.
When Linus gets out of the white van to go join the rest of the crew stealing the Pinch, the camera takes a shot including Linus walking towards the door and the rear right side of the van. In the reflection off the side of the van, 4 crew members are visible sitting down.
When Danny is released after serving time for his parole violation, he is met by Rusty and Tess - the camera crew is vaguely reflected on the car's window as it swings open.
When the Malloy twins are introduced and racing each other with the monster trucks, the camera crew is seen several times in the reflection of the trucks.
During the scene in which Danny explains the security of the
Bellagio vault a map is displayed on the screen which shows a portion of the Las Vegas strip. It is incorrect in that it places the MGM Grand casino in the place where the Aladdin (now Planet Hollywood) casino should be. If the MGM Grand were placed in its correct position, it would be partially off the screen.
The total heist would weigh too much to carry out. The U.S. Treasury has the weight of $1,000,000 at 22 pounds. Multiply that by 163 and the total weight from the heist would be 3586 pounds. Divide that by all eleven con men, and each one would have to carry 326 pounds out of the casino.
It's never explained how the floor sensors were disabled after blowing the vault Door.
The DVD commentary admits that there was no way in which all the flyers that were carried out of the casino and driven to the airport could have been in the vault.
A key part of the heist comes when Linus threatens to destroy all the money if Benedict doesn't let them take half of this. Benedict agrees because letting them take half his money is better than losing all of it. However, from Benedict's perspective this would be an empty threat. The Bellagio would be insured. If the robbers had destroyed the money then Benedict would have simply filed an insurance claim to recover the value of the stolen currency.
The winches used by Ocean and Linus to abseil down the elevator shaft are supposedly held to the wall not by permanent magnets but by electromagnets. These would require electronic inverter circuitry to convert the batteries' direct current into alternating current to generate the magnetic field. So why wasn't *that* circuitry disabled by the pinch's EMP?
Ruben claims that no one had ever before pulled off a successful Las Vegas casino heist, but casino robberies, while relatively uncommon and very dangerous due to the presence of armed guards, happen several times a year and have since the early days of Vegas gambling. In 1992, the Stardust was robbed of more than a half million dollars in cash and chips, and it was several hours before casino staff could pinpoint him as the culprit. He was never caught, and his whereabouts to date are unknown.
Danny claims that casinos are "required by law" to keep enough cash on hand to redeem every chip in play.
Not true. there is in fact a set of "formulas" or "guidelines" for cash to be kept by casinos. It generally involves a certain amount for each type of table game open, plus a certain amount for each slot machine of a certain denomination, etc.
Basher tells the group that a "pinch" will disrupt all the "broadband electrical circuitry" within its blast radius, which has nothing to do with hardwired electricity and power grids. "Broadband" implies radio signals that are transmitted over the airwaves, not electrical power to buildings and homes on the power grid. Therefore, the pinch, as defined by Basher, would not have affected any hardwired electrical circuitry, let alone the cars on the roads that blacked out as shown, but only radio communications, including their own.
In the scene where Danny meets Linus in Chicago, Danny refers to Las Vegas as "America's Playground." In fact, that designation belongs to Atlantic City, which was known by this nickname for many years before Las Vegas became a gambling center. Las Vegas has never marketed itself as "America's Playground."
When Linus (Matt Damon) introduces himself to Terry Benedict as being "from the Nevada Gaming Commission" he mispronounces "Nevada" - a dead giveaway that he isn't a local. He repeats the error again a few moments later when he identifies himself to Bernie Mac's character.