Goofs

The college kid flips open Frost's wallet and the driver's license is visible. Later when Colter Stevens opens Frost's wallet, Stevens has to slide the license out of a pocket in the wallet before it is visible.

When Hazmi runs downstairs into the bathroom he is wearing a tie. When he emerges from the stall the tie is gone. When he washes his face the tie reappears flipped over on his shoulder, and a cut away and back later it is back down the front of his shirt.

The text message which Goodwin receives from Colter/Sean is worded differently than the one he is shown sending her.

When Goodwin pulls up Frost's driver license information on her screen, the address, SSN, height, weight, DL # and eye color are different from the ones Stevens sees on his actual license on the train.

The clocks on the train station show different times.

Multiple characters use Army terms instead of more appropriate Air Force terms in regards to Nellis AFB. Specifically, the Air Force "base" is referred to as a "post" (an Army term) and the Security Forces personnel are referred to as "MPs" (an Army abbreviation for "Military Police.")

When Colter Stevens is on the train and makes the cell phone call to Nellis Air Force Base, the voice on the other end says, "Post Operator." If he was calling an Air Force base, he would be connected to the "Base Operator." Only Army facilities are called "Posts."

In the opening sequences for each return to the train, there is a flyover of a river which shows a Canada goose taking off. However, the sound effect played is for a duck.

Captain Goodwin's uniform is incorrect. Blue name tags are not worn on the Air Force service coat. (Blue name tags are only for the shirt, whereas silver name tags go on the service coat). Also, her U.S. insignias are not properly placed on the lapel.

Captain Goodwin has five service ribbons: a Bronze Star, an Air Medal, a Joint Service Achievement Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal (awarded by Saudi Arabia), and a Kuwait Liberation Medal (awarded by Kuwait). However, she is missing her Basic Training ribbon.

The conductor always asks Colter for his ticket, but never asks Christina for hers. On Chicago commuter trains, conductors collect tickets as you are on the train, the seats even have clips to hold those tickets; Colter must have gotten on after Christina. The train interiors are not Chicago area trains.

The criminal's cell phone is playing an Adobe Flash file ("HISTORY.swf"). before Colter activates the call history.

At the Cloud Gate Christina doesn't move in sync with the reflection. She can be seen twisting while the reflection does not.

The license plate on the white van has the configuration of numbers and letters that California has, not Illinois. Illinois plates (including in 2011) generally have three figures, then a space, then four figures. California plates have a number, three letters, and three numbers, all in a row, as the van's does.

Colter Stevens is said to be a member of the 17th Airborne. This unit was permanently deactivated in 1949.

[incorrectly regarded as goofs]

(this might blow your mind) as per this movie's premise, zillions of alternate realities are said to exist, so there would surely be one reality whereby all the goofs as documented here in our reality would actually contain no goofs whatsoever within this movie or a variant thereof in said other reality .. for example ..

• the goose that sounds like a duck would be actually correct
• a Basic Training ribbon would not be required for display on one's military uniform or indeed does not even exist
• one's visual image being reflected back at one's self does not necessarily have to move in exact conjunction with the origin's physical being
• and indeed, all geographical locations depicted in the movie are 100% accurate.

In the station rest room (around 25 minutes in), the upward angle of some shots show that the walls are maybe 8 feet tall with no ceiling, only the sound stage far overhead.

Just before Stevens confronts the bomber, when approaching the white van in the parking lot, there is a huge sculpture in the background. This is "Man" by Alexander Calder on Ile Sainte-Hélène in Montreal.

It is stated multiple times throughout the movie that the train's destination is Chicago's "Union Station." Yet near the end of the movie, the train is seen pulling into Chicago's "Millennium Station", located about 1.2 miles East of "Union Station".

The Glenbrook train stop mentioned in this film exists only in the north/northwest suburbs of the City of Chicago. Yet in every last-minute, prior-to-the-explosion shot where the passenger train is about to blow up, the train is shown as heading northbound into downtown from the south. This is impossible given the Glenbrook stop.

The interior train scenes are shot aboard commuter cars in Montreal, not Chicago.

Why would Stevens allow the bomb to remain on the train after finding it? Throwing the device off the train after finding it would make better sense (and save the train). Might also reveal the bomber when the phone call is made to detonate it.

The plot is impossible: his mission is to find the bomber. He finds the bomber before the bomb goes off and informs the police. Then is seems he has actually changed history and prevented the bombing. So how was he involved in the mission to prevent something that never happened. If this is correct, then he has actually gone back in time and changed history. Time travel is impossible. But this film makes it so. How did Goodwin know the name of the bomber at the end of the film when she goes into her boss's office - in this reality she knows nothing about the bomber.

As Capt Stevens fights with Hazmi outside the train station and Christina tries to intervene, Stevens releases Hazmi after he sees the trains explode in the distance. But Christina somehow remains singularly focused on Stevens' fight with Hazmi, even though the fighting is over for the moment. It is inconceivable that she pays no attention at all to that huge fireball and explosion.

The mission involves Stevens trying to find information about a dirty bomb attack on Chicago. A "dirty bomb" is simply a regular bomb with radioactive material packed around it so that the explosion will spread harmful radiation over the blast zone. It is not a nuclear bomb, and while it would expose those in the area to potentially lethal levels of radiation it would not "kill millions" as stated in the movie.

Colter Stevens communicates with Goodwin via text displayed on a computer screen, but when Stevens (seen sitting in the imaginary cockpit, speaking out loud) asks her, "Are you married?" she responds as if someone is speaking to her and she didn't hear him at first by saying "Hmm? No, I'm divorced."

Goodwin refers to the train cars as "carriages" which is a term that is used in Europe and possibly in Canada but not in Chicago (or anywhere in the US).