Factual error: When the Secretary of Defense leads Agent Perez to the B36 floor, there are Marines under arms and covered (have their hats on) yet they do not salute. Any Marine under arms is required to salute any higher ranking officer, including the President and Vice President, and would have been required to salute the Secretary of Defense, who is in his chain of command.

Factual error: Air patrols are always conducted with two or more aircraft, however there is only the F-16 ARIA ejects the pilot.

Factual error: Ethan Shaw would never have been allowed to operate ARIA alone. Government policy holds that anytime high security material is being handled, there must be two or more individuals in the room at all times.

Plot hole: The entire movie hinges on something that is an impossibility. One's twin cannot remove a biometric lock from a machine. This might be possible if it only compared DNA, as identical twins have the same DNA. This, however, is where the similarities end, as a hand scan would have been invalid, because of different fingerprints. The facial/retinal scan should have been invalid because the retinas would have been different, as well as their faces, as a result of different environments (i.e., scars, hair, facial hair, etc.). Finally, and the biggest hole, the voice print scanner. Maybe they would have been similar enough for comparison; however, I simply cannot believe they would have been identical.

Other: When Agent Perez gets out of the cooling pool at the end of the movie, she grabs a metal rod and shoves it into the eye of Eagle Eye. When she does this all kinds of electrical sparks fly, and even though she is completely sopping wet, including her hands, she is not electrocuted.

Continuity: When Agent Perez's helicopter takes off from "Chicago" after the recovery of the Cayenne, her helicopter has a California flag on its tail.

Factual error: The timeline of the movie is near the end of January 2009, as seen on cellphones throughout the movie. This would mean a new President would have been inaugurated only days before. Therefore, his address to Congress would not be called the State of the Union Address as this does not officially occur until the 2nd year of the Presidency.

Revealing: When Agent Perez arrives at the Defense headquarters, there's a shot of a helicopter landing. The US Flag emblem near the top of the elevator is reversed, probably meaning that they flipped the shot.

Plot hole: Towards the end of the movie, Zoey destroys ARIA's robotic eye, causing her to shut down. Yet, later, we see ARIA's screen showing the countdown to when the bomb is triggered.

Revealing: When Jerry jumps out of the building to escape the FBI, when he lands it does not look like Shia LaBeouf but a double.

Factual error: There is no multi-towered interstate in Indianapolis. The interstate shown is the Los Angeles freeway outside of LAX. When the Air Force plane left Dayton, there was a shot of the mountains outside of the airport. There are no mountains near Dayton.

Revealing: When the Porsche Cayenne is lifted out of the water at the scrap yard then placed on the ground, if you look through the gap between the front passenger wheel you can see the engine is removed from it.

Factual error: Where Aria says, "Hard Drive 3 is malfunctioning" or something and the guy goes in to get it, he should have been able to eject a Dynamic NAS system from the console. Yet he has to go inside and manually remove it. Also, re the point that they drain the liquid nitrogen and the freezing thing: that isn't the liquid nitrogen. It's a pool of water or something. The liquid nitrogen was drained into the "dangerous waste ejection chamber" as stated by the officer.

Factual error: Towards the end of the movie, Ethan Shaw's military id is pulled up on a computer screen. It has him listed as being a Senior Master Sergeant (SMSgt). However, Ethan is supposed to have been a graduate of the Air Force Academy, which would have earned him a commission, making him an officer rather than an enlisted SMSgt.

Continuity: When Jerry ducks in front of a car to avoid the remote control plane in the tunnel, he ducks in front of a Dodge Avenger. When Jerry steps away from the front of the car, it is a Chrysler Sebring. He gets into this car and drives away. He is then seen racing to the US Capitol in a Dodge Avenger.

Plot hole: The Bomb (crystal-necklace) in the last scene would be triggered by frequency-response as soon as the trumpet hits the high F in the star spangled banner. The exact same 'high-F-note' has however by that time already been played by the trumpet (you can actually hear it) a few phrases earlier. Check any score of the anthem. The F sounds earlier on the word 'glare' (rockets red glare). So the bomb should already have been triggered.

Plot hole: One twin cannot pass a biometric scan and pass for the other twin.

Factual error: Ethan Shaw is mentioned through out the movie as graduating from the Air Force Academy, and also as a Lieutenant by other characters. When his brother Jerry Shaw is shown his brother's ID by Aria (the eagle eye computer,) the ID shows Ethan Shaw as a SMSgt (Senior Master Sergeant). For his age, this is impossible by Air Force standards, even if he was a genius.