According to director David Ayer, Sabotage was heavily cut by the studio in favor of delivering more of an action based film rather than a mystery thriller. The original cut of Sabotage was rumored to be close to 3 hours.
Harold Perrineau, who plays Det. Jackson starred on the TV Show Lost with Josh Holloway who plays Eddie "Neck" Jordan in this movie. Neither actor has direct scenes with the other.
Following its dismal showing at the US Box Office, Australian distributors withdrew the movie from its scheduled 1 May 2014 cinema release and instead released the movie straight to DVD on 31 July 2014.
At the beginning of the movie when the crew enters the house, Breacher uses a shotgun to shoot a door lock. In the next shot, as he walks through that door, he is holding a pistol.
When the character who is shot during the money theft in the basement is picked up by another character picks him up, you can see the tube that supplied the fake blood.