Before Weston arrives at Green Point Stadium the stadium shows no activity. A few seconds later when he arrives there is suddenly a soccer match on and thousands of people around.
Frost arrives alone to Langa (to meet Carlos Villar), but two people get out of his car. One on each side.
At the end of the film an exterior shot of the British House of Commons is followed by an interior of a completely different assembly then another exterior shot of the House.
When Wade and Frost crash after being hit by a black S.U.V. the road that they are pushed into is in full shade. Yet when their pursuers reach the crash site the road is in full sunlight and the positions of all three vehicles have changed.
When a shot is fired through the windscreen of the Jaguar it leaves a hole and blood stain. A zoomed out view of the car shows an intact windscreen before showing it with the bullet hole again.
When Frost alerts police at the Soccer Match of his "kidnapping" and raises his handcuffed hands above his head, the handcuffs used have had several chain-links added.
Normal police handcuffs have only two links or they have a solid hinge (and no links). Leg Irons have additional links, but have many more than are shown on these modified handcuffs.
Normal police handcuffs have only two links or they have a solid hinge (and no links). Leg Irons have additional links, but have many more than are shown on these modified handcuffs.
At 15:00 when the file on Frost is shown on the screen, it is labeled as "Clearance level: Classified." "Classified" is an umbrella term for government information restriction, not a clearance level. The major clearance levels are Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, and Top Secret/SCI, many of which have subcategories of further restriction.
A true safe house, like the ancient castles of Europe, is designed to be defended while under attack. Yet this supposed safe house has no internal defenses, and even to go from room to room one must step out into the hall, i.e. into the line of fire.
At the stadium, despite the presence of multiple Orlando Pirates fans the team actually playing against Ajax Cape Town are the Bidvest Wits who also wear dark blue instead of the Orlando Pirates black strips.
When Weston enters the safe house for the first time he opens the fridge and there is a stock supply of O positive blood. If this is for transfusion in an emergency then O negative is the universal donor.
Almost 40% of people have O+ blood.
Almost 40% of people have O+ blood.
When the two senior CIA agents are flying from Langley to South Africa they are shown in a Falcon 900 (Tri-Jet) in the air but they arrive in a Gulfstream.
The DC to Cape Town flight distance is close to double the Falcon's range. They must have changed planes on the way.
The DC to Cape Town flight distance is close to double the Falcon's range. They must have changed planes on the way.
When Frost tries to escape his pursuers by cutting through the food stall arcade the shirt he's wearing changes colour from grey to blue, then back to grey, then blue, then grey.
The shirt is a bluish-grey color and seems to change blue to grey with the different lighting as he passes.
The shirt is a bluish-grey color and seems to change blue to grey with the different lighting as he passes.
Weston accesses a CIA database with classified info from a computer at an Internet cafe. This is a huge security flaw and in reality it could not happen. The Company's data storage can only be accessed from a CIA internal server.
First - he was accessing his own files, and Second - the database would be useless to an agent in the field if they had to be in the office to use it.
First - he was accessing his own files, and Second - the database would be useless to an agent in the field if they had to be in the office to use it.
The US Consulate is not in the CBD of Cape Town. It is actually in Tokai, 27km by road from where it is shown in the movie.
This is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device.
This is not a goof, it's "creative geography" and is a widely used cinematic device.
During the multiple car chases shown in the film people and drivers are shown being aware of the on-going chase well before they could see it or hear it. Pedestrians are shown running across streets before vehicles turn the corner on their street. And drivers are shown slowing down or speeding up when the chase vehicles are on roadways next or above theirs and have yet to drive onto their own.
South Africa does not have lockers at airports, train stations, etc.
The stadium continuously gets referred to as Green Point Stadium rather than its correct name. Green Point Stadium was demolished before the 2010 World Cup Soccer tournament that was hosted by South Africa. The new stadium built on the site is called Cape Town Stadium. South Africans may have still referred to it by its old name, but foreigners would have called it by the correct name.
There is no train station right by the Cape Town Stadium.
The colours and logos on the train are not correct. South African trains are grey and yellow with the word "MetroRail" on the side.