Corrected entry: From prison in the interrogation cell Clyde asks for his steak "medium." In the scene inside Clyde's cell, when the waiter delivers the steak to him, the waiter calls out the steak order as "medium rare."
Phixius
21st Jan 2018
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
6th Jul 2015
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Rice said it took approximately 15 minutes to get to Reynolds from the time he was given his location. He found that Clyde rigged Reynolds' air supply to shut off at 1:15 (if food sent to Clyde on time at 1:00, it was sent at 1:08) - but even if Rice got the info from Clyde exactly at 1:00, it would still take extra minutes to leave the cell, run through the prison to the helicopter outside, and take off, so 15 minutes wouldn't have helped save Reynolds even if Rice gave Clyde his 1:00 request.
21st Mar 2012
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: In the shot where Clyde checks Darby's restraints, as he walks back to Darby's head Clyde catches Darby's foot with his arm, the foot is a prop as it wobbles like rubber. Even though he was paralysed it would not wobble like this.
1st Mar 2011
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Clyde and Rice are disusing the deal. Rice states that there is not enough evidence to send the offenders to prison, and that his "eye-witness identification" is not enough to convict. So they're cutting a deal with Darby to testify against Ames. This would never happen. Since Clyde could identify the perpetrators BEFORE he blacked out. His testimony and ID would be more than sufficient.
Correction: It would happen with a lawyer like Rice, who's more concerned with his conviction record than he is with justice. The fact that the encounter began with Clyde being clubbed over the head is enough for any decent defense attorney to have Clyde's identification testimony disregarded by the court. Rice won't risk this, because that would make it that much harder for him to win an already tough case. So he cuts a deal for a sure thing.
11th May 2010
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: After Clyde leaves the Justice Building after planting the bomb, he heads straight back to his tunnel to return to his cell (despite being slowed by the traffic a little). How does Jamie Foxx's character grab the bomb, remove it from the building without being stopped by other police, and plant it in the cell before Clyde gets back?
11th May 2010
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Ames writhes in pain on the table while receiving the death penalty. Clyde says that he changed the potassium chloride for "something a little more deliberate". Potassium chloride is the last chemical injected and so Ames would still have been paralyzed by the pancuronium (the second injection) and could not have moved.
18th Nov 2009
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Clyde has a bloody mouth after being hit by Nick, spits out blood, saliva, and talks. The blood is gone after the camera pans up to Nick and then back to Clyde.
23rd Oct 2009
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: When Shelton is eating his asparagus in jail and takes a bit off the top, a few seconds later after switching to another angle, he takes another bite and it still has the top of the asparagus on.
8th Mar 2010
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Corrected entry: Throughout the film, everyone at the justice department is using Mac computers. However, in the scene where Nick receives the email about industrial property purchases, he is obviously using Windows Vista. This isn't impossible, but it would be highly unlikely that the department would pay extra for Macs and then not even use the operating system.
Correction: They would if they were trying to use up their budget, to keep it from being reduced the following year. They want to run Windows Vista, but they need to spend the leftover funding... easy solution is to buy the more expensive computer. It's possible, explainable in a myriad of ways, and has has occured in real life. It's not a mistake. Fellow I know in the military says they once bought 900 Coleman stoves and 1200 field knives just to burn up the rest of the budget for the year. They didn't need any of them at all. At least this office needed computers.
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Correction: This sort of thing happens in real life all the time.
Phixius ★
I agree that the order given (medium - which is described as a "hot pink center") differs from what he receives (medium rare - which is described as a "warm red center"). However I have learned that once a steak is put out by the kitchen and ready to deliver to a table it is actually still cooking, thus resulting in a higher temperature. Therefore, since the steak is being delivered from a steakhouse to a prison accompanied with the police check (×2) I believe the steak has most likely cooked itself to about medium even though the waiter said medium rare. But he should not have gotten a 30% tip then from that error.