Stolen (2013)
In New Orleans, the notorious bank thief and family man Will Montgomery steals $10m with his partners Vincent, Riley Jeffers and Hoyt. However, he has an argument with Vincent in the runaway and Hoyt leaves Will behind. He tries to flee but the FBI agent Tim Harlend organizes a manhunt and Will is captured, but he burns the stolen money to get rid of the evidence against him. Eight years later, Will leaves the prison and he goes to the house of his teenage daughter Alison Loeb, who has issues against him. Alison leaves Will alone in a coffee shop and takes a cab to go to a session with her shrink. However, a couple of minutes later, Will receives a phone call from Vincent, who is presumed dead, telling that he has abducted Alison and will kill her unless he receives the $10m of the last robbery. Now Will has twelve hours to find a way to rescue his daughter from the hands of the psychopath Vincent.
12 Hours. $10 Million. 1 Kidnapped Daughter.
Tim Harlend: Oh, thank you, Will. I'll return to my life now.
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Nicolas Cage's character picks up a stuffed animal as a gift for his daughter. He also does this in Con Air (1997), which is also directed by Simon West.
Will and Riley have a brief telephone conversation in Swedish, Malin Akerman's native language.
Both Clive Owen and Jason Statham were previously attached for the lead role.
Director Simon West previously directed Nicolas Cage in Con Air (1997). M.C. Gainey also appears in both films.
The taxicabs in New Orleans do not have the taxicab's number in the roof light; they are on the front and rear bumpers. While this was filmed on location, all of the taxicabs filmed had to have New York City roof lights installed, as part of the plot relied on this. The majority of the taxicabs however, were real local taxis. The taxicabs that did volunteer for the service were mostly independently owned and not fleet taxis, as the majority of them have advertising signs on the roof.
Continuity
When Will went to marina to pick up equipment, he entered the red truck from the passenger side, in the next scene, he was driving the truck.
For some of the time that Vincent kidnaps Will's daughter his teeth are quite brown and stained, but in later shots they are back to being clean and white.
In the FBI building, Will wears a visitor's ID badge. Agent Fletcher doesn't wear one, while the other agent does.
When Will stops his stolen taxi and gets out as the parade is blocking away, there is a cab with the 5K20 tag sitting in the line about three cars back and one row to the right from him. In the next shot, he turns around to see the cab pulling around the corner.
When Will is first talking with Vincent on the cellphone on Bourbon street there is a blonde female drinking from a 'go-cup' standing directly in front of him in the close-up shot. There is a distance shot a few seconds later and she is no longer there. But a few seconds later we are shown the close-up shot again and she is still where she was the first time.
Factual errors
In the final scene, the characters describe a 10 pound lump of gold as being worth $300,000. If the gold is worth $30,000 per pound, the duffel bag containing $10 million in gold would have weighed almost 340 pounds, too heavy for the characters to lift and drag around. (At the actual Feb 2012 gold price, the bag would have weighed 400 pounds.)
Will drives away the burning taxi into a body of water. His daughter is in the trunk. If he could start the car with keys, then he should have been able to open the trunk, either with the key of by 'popping' the lid from inside the vehicle.
When the SWAT truck pulls the glass doors off the front of the bank it would have set off alarms.
Revealing mistakes
(at around 1h 14 mins) When Will and Riley are in the sewer trying to flee, you can see Cage stop and wait for his cue, you can see a portion of his body behind the wall as Akerman turns the corner. He isn't moving and then all of a sudden starts to. Obviously he was waiting for his cue from the director, but wasn't totally out of the shot like he should have been.
When racing the taxi though the streets, he overtakes the same car twice.
After having exposed the faked taxi-license on the roof light of the taxi, he later passes a taxi with the same roof light number earlier shown under the false decal while on foot.
In the beginning of the movie, when the van pulls up, FBI thermal scope shows the heat signature of the motor as bright red & yellow, or hot. In the next scene, the heat signature is bright blue meaning it has cooled. In the following scene, it's bright red and yellow again.
Miscellaneous
When Vincent is pulled over by the motorcycle cop, he pulls onto a one way street in the wrong direction.
Even though it is technically Fat Tuesday, no one says Happy Fat Tuesday. They say Happy Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. Mardi-(Tuesday) Gras-(Fat)
Errors in geography
Early on in the film there is a shot of the King Louis cathedral, right before a cut scene to Cage being released from jail. The cathedral is in New Orleans while the jail is clearly marked as a Texas facility, not a Louisiana facility.