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Vantage Point (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: At a point, the character Phil McCullough says: "I know that sir, but we're looking for five people out of six million. We are trying." Salamanca, Spain, is a city of roughly 160,000 people.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of damage on Thomas Barnes's car changes throughout the chase scene.
  
  
• Factual errors: Towards the end of the movie, there is a stop sign that says "ALTO". Stop signs in Spain say "STOP".
  
  

• Errors in geography: At several points in the movie you can see palm trees lining the streets of Salamanca. Salamanca is located in northwestern Spain, a city in a higher latitude with no palm trees. This is another error that reveals the movie was shot in Mexico.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During shots of the multi-lane freeways, typically Mexican green and white VW beetle taxis are clearly visible. That type of taxi doesn't exist in Spain. Also, Salamanca doesn't even have freeways and overpasses.
  
  
• Continuity: During the aerial views of the plaza, the shadows cast by the buildings change throughout each "vantage" view although they all take place within the same time frame.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Officer Barnes is on his cell phone when he steals the blue Vauxhall Astra from one of the Spanish citizens. As he gets in the car the camera shows a clutch pedal and a gas pedal. Barnes shifts the car into first and then continues to talk on his phone. He drives for a good 40 seconds without ever shifting out of first gear.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first scene of Barnes in the Hotel room, his shirt goes from untucked to being tucked during his flashbacks.
  
  
• Factual errors: The blue Astra and police cars did not wear the Vauxhall badge but the Chevrolet badge on the grills of the cars. But main land Spain and the rest of Europe excluding the UK use Opel badged cars. All three makes of car Vauxhall, Opel and Chevrolet are owned by GM.
  
  
• Continuity: The President is loaded into the ambulance on the stretcher feet first - however, when he regains consciousness in the back of the ambulance his feet are nearest the rear doors.
  
  
• Factual errors: Several North American vehicles can be spotted during the car chase. Among them are the North American Ford Escort and Focus (Ford Escort and Ford Focus are quite common in Spain). The emergency vehicles are also Chevys and Freightliners.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the scenes in the multi-lane freeway an "AU" (Autobuses Unidos) bus is clearly visible turning to the right near the overpass. AU is a Mexican transportation company that operates only on national territory.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the president presses the button to catch the lift, the light on the button comes on before he presses it.
  
  
• Factual errors: The accents are Mexicans (except for a forced "th" sound that tries to imitate the Castillian sound without much success).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the speed the blue Astra was going, both when it crashes out between two parked cars and when it’s crashed by the truck, the front and side airbags respectively should had come out.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the car chase scene (right after the cars drive down the stairs) there is a part where you can see two brand tags on the seat belts in Barnes' car mirror. This indicates that a stunt driver is actually driving the car. During the rest of the chase, Barnes is shown not wearing any seat belt.
  
  
• Continuity: During the car chase between the police car and Barnes in the Astra the same red Volkswagen Golf (Rabbit) keeps reappearing.
  
  
• Continuity: During the aerial take of the big explosion on the square some national flags are visible. Some of them change in different shots, although the shots are taken from the same angle. Sometimes there's Polish flag visible, sometimes another one.
  
  
• Factual errors: Spanish police agents, like the Noriega character, do not use the Beretta 92FS. Guardia Civil agents do (the female agent with the green outfit) but in the movie they use another gun.
  
  
• Continuity: During the chase scenes several cars keep re-appearing. For example a red Peugeot 306 sedan, a white Nissan Platina (which is not sold in Europe), and an orange Opel Corsa.
  
  
• Factual errors: The movie depicts the President's limousine as a Lincoln. In reality, the President's limo is a special armored Cadillac known as "The Beast".
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: At the end of the movie, the broadcaster announces that they have killed the lone assassin. However, the bottom of the screen reads, "Lone assassin arrested."
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: Near the end, when Kent Taylor finally crashes his car, several shots reveal a dummy in the front seat clearly, some of which are wearing sunglasses. Taylor had not been wearing any.
  
  

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