Goofs for
Traffic (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez and his partner are stopped by General Salazar's men in the opening sequence, Javier holds his hands against the steering wheel in a "surrender" position. As the scene plays out, his hands are alternately in the air or on the steering wheel.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Arnie Metzger shows up at Helena Ayala's house, at one point he quickly turns around and points to her. Clearly his mouth movements do not match up with the dialog.
  
  
• Factual errors: Students at Cincinnati Country Day school do not wear uniforms. Also, the school building is considerably more modern. The scene that shows the school was actually shot at Walnut Hills.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: The camera is visible attached beneath the helicopter landing.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the woman's speech in the courtroom, you can clearly see the microphone switch to be in the off position.
  
  
• Continuity: Inside the surveillance van, the time indicated on the wristwatch hanging up near Ray changes drastically between continuous shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Ohio license plates used in the movie have 4 letters and three numbers. The state recently changed from a 3-and-3 format to 3 letters and 4 numbers.
  
  
• Continuity: When Salazar shows Javier the picture of Frankie Flowers before they find him, he has the scar from the beating they give him when they pick him up.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning, when they discover the drug on the truck, the guy wearing a hat is handcuffed, but when they're stopped by General Salazar, his handcuffs are gone.
  
  
• Continuity: When Javier is talking to the tourists, he caps his pen twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The last name of actor Peter Riegert is spelled two different ways in the credits. The first time it appears on screen at the end of the movie it's Reigert, which is wrong. The second time, Riegert, is right.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Eduardo Ruiz is poisoned, Montgomery kicks the door out into the hallway when the second waiter arrives, hotel room doors always open into the room.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Javier is asked to get in the trunk, he throws a cigarette on the floor. In the next shot the cigarette is not there.
  
  
• Plot holes: In Wakefield's meeting with the Chief of Staff, he's told his first media briefing will be in a month. One of movie's final scenes is that media briefing. Meaning the time frame from arrest to trial for Carlos Ayala is less than a month. That's highly unlikely, in fact almost impossible, for a major criminal trial.
  
  

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