Goofs

Factual errors: Signs advertise an election to be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2054. 22 April 2054 will be a Wednesday.

Continuity: Shots from the outside of Lara’s cottage show the windows on the front open, however as Agatha is walking around inside, behind the same windows, they appear closed.

Continuity: The jacket that Agatha is holding, disappears and reappears on her shoulder during the car journey.

Continuity: As Anderton approaches Crow, he has his gun drawn. Then we see him from a different angle and he draws his (already drawn, as far as we know) gun.

Continuity: Anderton says “his” case is #1109, but the display screen he uses to sort it out says it’s #1108.

Continuity: When Dr. Iris hands the “plant-waterer” to Anderton it is pointing one way (watering hole to Anderton’s left), when the camera angle changes it is it is pointing the other way.

Continuity: Joel Gretsch’s character is listed as “Donald Doobin” in the credits, but the name appears in the movie as “Donald Dubin”.

Revealing mistakes: When Anderton is being chased through the alleyway, the hole cut in his leather jacket for his safety harness is clearly visible when he is at the top of the fire-escape.

Continuity: When Anderton is arresting Howard Marks, he states the date as April 22. Later while Anderton is running, the commercial states the vote on the National Pre-Cog Initiative is on April 22 and later that same day while he is walking with Burgess, Lamar says that “in one week” the people will vote on the initiative.

Revealing mistakes: The events take place in the year 2054, but when Anderton is checking the hotel registry to look for Leo Crow, the entry he sees just before he sees the one for Crow is for a hotel client who has checked in and out in the year “44″ (i.e. 2044). The entry for Crow has the year reference blanked out.

Crew or equipment visible: After John’s chase in the Lexus, a crouching crewmember in a white shirt is reflected in the car door as it opens.

Revealing mistakes: In the alley where the police are attempting to subdue Anderton, he takes a sick stick and pokes one of the policemen who vomits immediately, but the vomit is coming from “below” his mouth – that the “vomit tube” is mis-positioned on the left side of the actor’s face.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Anderton kicks out the window of the car and climbs outside, it appears that he ends up standing on the same window he kicked out (which shouldn’t, of course, be there anymore). But on closer inspection it is apparent that the car has rotated as it moves around the building and that he is, in fact, standing on a completely different, and thoroughly intact, window.

Crew or equipment visible: Safety diver visible in the upper right-hand corner of the screen when Anderton is in the pool holding his breath.

Continuity: When Anderton tumbles into the yoga class after jumping from his car, the Asian yoga student in the green leotard is flat down on her chest. In the next shot, the same yoga student is up on her hands.

Revealing mistakes: When Danny Witwer is shot, a blood pack is visible under his shirt.

Continuity: Lamar shoots Danny Witwer in the head and in the chest, where his blood pools and accumulates. But in subsequent shots of Lamar on the phone with Lara, with Danny’s body slumped over in the lower right of the frame, there is no blood on his shirt, and his head is intact.

Continuity: When Anderton is in the park looking for Howard Marks’ house, the merry-go-round behind him is not moving. A couple shots later, the merry-go-round is moving in the foreground.

Continuity: When Anderton confronts and then shoots Leo Crow, Agatha is crawling off the bed and takes most of the pictures off the bed onto the floor with her. Later, when Witwer and the PreCrime team are studying the crime scene, the pictures are back on the bed. It is unlikely that either Anderton or Agatha would have stopped to put the pictures back on the bed before leaving, and no policeman worth his salt would have disturbed a crime scene and scooped up the pictures and put them on the bed.

Continuity: When Anderton is in the greenhouse with the pre-crime’s creator, she says, “This just isn’t your week is it,” as she helps him sit down, and takes her hands off of him. In the next shot she has her hands in the original location as he says, “I am not a killer.”

Continuity: The door in the house of Howard Mark is first opened by the blonde man, and he leaves it open. After that Anderton rushes in but the door pivots from the other side of the doorpost.

Continuity: When in Anderton’s house, Danny Witwer is sitting in front of Lara asking for her husband. In the first shot she’s sitting with both arms and legs in the same position. In the next shot, her left leg is crossed and his right arm is resting on the photo frame.

Continuity: When Anderton is first viewing the images from the Mark’s murder, the technician behind him takes his folder and folds it behind his arms twice.

Revealing mistakes: When the four backup police arrive at the Marks’ home, the first one to land on the bed clearly has a strap and metal ring sticking out from the back of his uniform, and it is attached to a swivel and safety wire.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Anderton remembers Solomon P. Eddie set his patients on fire, Eddie says “I put ‘em out!” and then “Some not as quickly as others…” but his mouth does not match the words.

Continuity: When Howard Marks picks up his glasses from the bedside table, he is holding them upside down. In the next shot he puts them on, and he is holding them right-side up.

Continuity: After Anderton has attacked Crow in the hotel room, the position of the broken glass in the mirror changes between shots.

Continuity: When the robots are looking for Tom Cruise to scan his eye, he grabs a small cooler of ice and throws it into the bathtub to get in and hide. The next time the camera shows the tub, there is nearly 10 times as much ice in the tub.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the apartment building Crow lives in, as Anderton is talking to the clerk, Agatha calls Anderton “Anderson”.

Continuity: When Anderton has surgery to change his eyes he has brown eyes, but on the computer screen his eyes are blue. Also the eyes he uses to get access to the Pre-cog are blue.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Goof submissions relating to perceived holes in the logic of what pre-cogs can/cannot do are not being accepted. Since they are a fantasy creation, they can do whatever the filmmakers say they can do, even when their abilities are apparently contradictory.

Plot holes: Anderton gains access to pre-cog using his own excised eyeball. As he was wanted and on the run, shouldn’t his access have been cancelled – or at least shouldn’t the police have been alerted to his presence?