Continuity: Gail skinny dips at night, facing the river bank where Maggie is waiting. Then Maggie starts barking, Gail turns around and sees Wade watching her. As Wade was in her field of vision already she wouldn't have to turn back to see him.

Continuity: When Tom escapes he climbs up the steep rocks on the riverside. The height at which he is shown varies dramatically depending on the camera angle, and when he finally falls down into the water (unharmed, after bouncing from rock to rock.) he would actually have landed on the bank which was shown in the shot before.

Plot hole: If you consider how fast the river is and how high and impassable the rocks on both sides of the river are, it is obvious that it was absolutely impossible for Tom to overtake the raft and arrive at the gauntlet well in time to set up the sophisicated trap with which he finally flips over the raft.

Plot hole: When Tom rescues Wade he knocks him out not to get pulled under himself, and Wade visibly turns limp under water. The moment they emerge Wade has regained full consciousness and is able to pull himself into the raft.

Continuity: Wade and Terry are supposed to follow Gail's raft through the rapids keeping to the extreme right. In this scene their position on the river varies a number of times, but there are many a shots where they are sticking to the extreme right as they should, but Gail screams that they are on the wrong side.

Continuity: After they have passed the first rapid where Tom fell into the water Gail is rowing and the river is flowing quite fast. In between is a brief cut to Rourke where the boat is not moving and the water is totally still.

Continuity: In the scene where Wade almost drowns he is seen in the middle of a huge stretch of white water. When Tom comes to his rescue the water is clear and only slightly choppy.

Revealing: In the scene where Tom and the dog Maggie are having to jump off the cliff, Tom jumps first and then tries to persuade "Maggie" to jump after him. She finally does, but as she leaps, the camera is below her, revealing male dog anatomy.

Continuity: When Tom tells Gail he won't take part in the rafting trip and she sits down on the bed, her hair changes several times between tucked behind the ears and hanging straight in alternating shots.

Revealing: In the final showdown, when Gail points the gun at Wade who is standing in the water, the raft isn't moving altough the current is pretty fast and the raft didn't get stuck anywhere as the cable is up in the air again.

Continuity: Later into the morning of the second day of the trip, after Wade and Terry have shown Gail and Tom the rapids they were afraid of, you see a silhouette shot of the whole group against a beautiful evening sky.

Continuity: On the first evening of their trip Gail talks to Tom about his work. You see her resting her chin in her hand, but when the camera angle changes her hands are down.

Continuity: Gail, Tom and Rourke get tied up when they take off with Wade and Terry. However, when they take a food and pee break they leave the raft apparently untied, with no evidence of anyone untying them.

Continuity: When Tom sets up the trap with the cable across the river the water is calm and almost stagnant. When the raft arrives the water is choppy and flowing fast.

Revealing: When Gail throws a stone to make it bounce on the water you see in slow motion that she fakes the throw with an empty hand, and only in the next shot do you actually see the stone bouncing.

Plot hole: It's strange that only Gail and Rourke see Tom's smoke signals but not Wade and Terry, even if the latter are somewhat distracted by the river wild.

Other: After the encounter with Gail's old Buddy, Ranger Johnny, Johnny paddles off without noticing the situation Gail and her family is in. Terry starts yelling and beating up Tom for drawing a SOS sign in the sand when Johnny still is not even around the next bend and still well within hearing distance.

Continuity: The scene where Gail and Tom try to escape Wade is quite an editing mess. First Gail sends Rourke down the river fishing so that they can pick him up later. When no one is watching they paddle off and try to fetch Rourke, but Wade catches them. They start fighting, and finally Wade cuts up his raft, which is suddenly there and not at the place where they had landed originally. Finally you see a shot of the cut-up raft at the original landing place, and in the background Gail and Tery carrying stuff to the place where Gail's raft was.

Continuity: When Wade tries to shoot Maggie, Rourke chases her up the hills, running after her. When Wade comes to scold him he is standing right on the riverside.

Continuity: When Wade shows Rourke his gun the river is either wide and calm or narrow and choppy, depending on the camera angle.