When Hartley, Booth, and The Bishop drive through the waterfall, it is an unbroken sheet of water. Yet when Das looks down from the same spot moments later, the cascade has conveniently parted to allow her a clear view down.
Sotto Voce's vault opens using a code stored only on his phone, but he and his henchmen enter the vault even after his phone was stolen by Hartley.
This movie features the characters being pursued by an agent of Interpol. The agent is armed and attempts to arrest them. Interpol is NOT a law enforcement agency; the agents have no law enforcement power and do not carry arms. Interpol is an inter-governmental organization of member countries that assist police by sharing data and providing technical and operational support.
When the "convertible tank" bursts through the waterfall and plunges into the cascade pool, it floats momentarily, before sinking. Cars float because of the air trapped inside the cabin. A WWII-era open-top sedan, made of bulletproof steel, would sink like a rock.
When an account is frozen, the assets do not disappear; they are merely held and the owner cannot get access to them without satisfying the reason for them being frozen.
Near the movie's beginning, John Hartley (Dwayne Johnson) gets into a Porsche. As he starts the car, the odometer shows MPH (miles per hour); it should be kilometers since this is in Rome.
Although the Volkswagen Kübelwagen could only reach a top speed of 80 km/h (50 mph), it had no problem keeping pace with the Mercedes, the most basic version of which could reach 170 km/h (106 mph).
While raiding the hidden Nazi art collection, some boxes are marked "Top Secret". The Germans would not have used English markings, and this box is the exact one seen at the very end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which the Ark of the Covenant is stored.
In the opening scene, when the photo of the farmer who found the two eggs is shown, the Arabic text is just a bunch of Arabic letters put together and not actual Arabic words.
At around 1h 42m, at the Egyptian billionaire's daughter's wedding, two men are shown playing fanfare trumpets but their lips barely touch the instrument.
At the very end of the high speed pursuit in the mines, when the camera focuses on the odometer, the speed starts increasing from 0 km/h.
The date on Nolan's dad's clock shows June 22, 1941. In Nazi Germany, it would have shown 22 Juni 1941.
In the museum/gallery in Rome, Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus" hangs on the wall. This painting is located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence (and was commissioned by the Medici family).
During the bar scene after the rain in Bali, Dwayne Johnson is tapping his finger on his Alitalia plane tickets. The Alitalia logo is not printed but probably glued on because the corner of the initial "A" is lifted from the paper.
When first released on Netflix, Chris Diamantopoulos's name was misspelled as "Chris Diamantopolous" in the opening credits. It was later corrected.
During the car chase in the mine tunnels, some of the shots show the Mercedes' hub cap with the Mercedes logo - it's not turning.
At 1:21:32, the coordinates of the vault are shown as 20°02"38'S 54°55"18'W, written incorrectly as degrees-seconds-minutes instead of degrees-minutes-seconds. Furthermore, 20°38'02"S 54°18'55"W and the red dot on the map are in Brazil, not Argentina as stated on the next title card. (20°02'38"S 54°55'18"W is also in Brazil, if the number sequence was correct with the unit marks in error.)
The cars in the bunker start easily after 75 years. In fact, the batteries would be dead and the gasoline degraded.
Facial recognition systems use 3D to scan a face (especially on high-security safes), otherwise anyone could use a simple picture of someone to fool the system. So the duo using a video on a tablet to bypass the face ID on the safe would most certainly not work.
In a high-security Russian prison, it would be extremely likely for prison guards to move inmates around only in a stress position (hands behind back and held by guards, face bowed down).
Also, there'd be no chance for anyone to waste time, walk around, and start a fight in a canteen, if there is even a communal one to begin with. The scene clearly shows a guard just observing a boiling riot rather than doing anything to stop it.
Also, there'd be no chance for anyone to waste time, walk around, and start a fight in a canteen, if there is even a communal one to begin with. The scene clearly shows a guard just observing a boiling riot rather than doing anything to stop it.
The character played by Ryan Reynolds claims that the pyramid's interior was scanned by LIDAR. LIDAR bounces laser light off objects to find distances; it cannot penetrate stone. What he was probably referring to was using LIDAR to find new hidden passages in the tombs, which is something that has been used to do so in the real life Egyptian pyramids.
Much is made of (for example) finding a tomb of Cleopatra, or a mask of Cleopatra, or some artifact belonging to Cleopatra as though there was only ever one Queen Cleopatra - but there were many Cleopatras, the most famous Cleopatra was Cleopatra VII, her mother was Cleopatra VI, and so forth.