Goofs

When Willy walks into his room, Nikki is just leaving him a message. Afterwards, when he plays his messages the machine says he has one new message and plays the call from Miramar left around 4.30 pm. There would have been at least two messages.

Towards the end when Beachum calls on Crawford, Crawford looks in a security monitor. Under the monitor there is a security panel for an alarm system. When the shot changes, the panel is gone, then appears again.

When facing the window and asking the difference between Italian and English, Willy is holding his cell phone in his right hand. In the next cut, the phone instantly moves to his left hand.

As Beachum walks through Crawford's home explaining that the murder weapon is still hidden somewhere, we see detective Flores come up to the camera, putting his hand in his jacket to get a pen. On the next (reverse) shot, he puts his hand again in his jacket to pull out the same pen.

At the moment Beachum is returning to his home from Nikki's house he arrives with his BMW E9. The viewer can see the car in the shot matted from condensation (the same as the other car on the parking lot). If he drove the car just recently there would not have been condensation. These two cars were standing there already for a considerable time.

By the expert's testimony in court we are informed that Ted Crawford's bullet pierced through the frontal cortex in the temporal lobe coming to rest upon the upper side of the brain against the skull. Yet when we see wife Jennifer's head hit the floor for a brief moment in a close-up, there is no injury visible at all. Furthermore in another scene Ted points to his left cheek bone when he describes where he shot his wife. Such an injury is very different from that described during the trial. The shot was fired at close range with a powerful .45, which makes it very unlikely that the bullet would come to rest within the skull.

At the beginning of the movie when EMTs are working with Jennifer Crawford, they are heard saying "she has a pulse" and then administering chest compressions. According to BLS, when the patient has a palpable pulse, chest compressions are not administered.

All modern guns are test fired at the factory after assembly, to ensure they fire accurately and function correctly. Even if said gun was never fired by the owner, there is no such thing as a gun that has "never been fired".

When Crawford is not responding to Beachum asking Dr Kang in court if there was intended murder, the judge steps in and asks Crawford if he wants to object. She even spells it out on which grounds. In reality that would never happen. Although the judge might be considered with Crawford using layman's terms, she would never give legal advice.

The problem with this film is the fact that there is no delay time between the shooting and the beginning of the trial. Even though Crawford asks for his right to a speedy trial, this would not allow a proper investigation to take place, search for any pertinent witnesses, and, above all, allow the courts to schedule a free courtroom, judge, etc. to hear the case. Asking for a speedy trial still means that holding the trial has to accommodate the courts and court personnel and would mean delays of up to a couple of months. It's highly unlikely that scheduled court business would be pushed aside to accommodate Crawford's request.

In one scene, when Ryan Gosling's character is viewing the security video file on his MAC, he tries to zoom in to try to view the face of Anthony Hopkins's character. When he zooms in, the mouse pointer also gets magnified. Although the mouse pointer would not magnify if the application zooms into the image, the MAC OS also offers a 'zoom' that magnifies not just the screen, but the mouse pointer as well.

When the nurse removes the endotracheal tube from Ms. Crawford, you clearly see it was only long enough for the actress to bite down on it and missing several inches of tubing that should have gone down her trachea.

When Willy is called and told to appear at the arraignment at 3:00, which is "in 15 minutes," his watch clearly shows the time to be 12:40.

When Willy is reading Dr Seuss to Jennifer in the hospital and the nurse walks in we see the back cover of the book. The spine of the book should be pointing towards Willy's left side but it's actually pointing to his right. Thus, he's holding the book upside down.

As Jennifer Crawford pulls into her driveway, she passes a sign that reads "Parking Lot Full", apparently referring to the Crawford's property.

When Nikki and Willy hang out in private outside of a bar/nightclub, the former says to the latter, "So, I think you should go home," but there is a discernible delay between the actress speaking and the movement of the jaw and chin.

When Willy Beachum is rushing to the hospital to serve the court order, he is shown clearly driving on the 10 freeway and then exiting to go to the hospital. The hospital is St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach which is nowhere near the 10 freeway.

Beachum's home is on the corner lot of Minnesota St and Prewett St. When he is leaving his driveway the morning of the trial (43 min in) the sun appears to be rising over Downtown LA. However, since his home is north-west of DTLA it is actually setting over LA - the sun never sets over DTLA from that perspective.

Beachum's home is on the corner lot of Minnesota St and Prewett St. When he is leaving his driveway the morning of the trial (at around 43 mins) the sun appears to be rising over Downtown LA. However, since his home is north-west of LA it is actually setting over it - the sun never rises over LA from the perspective of his home.

Prosecution could easily have pinned the case on Ted Crawford by a simple (and routine) question of 'what happened when his wife was shot and what he was doing and who did he see'. Given no one else was seen by anyone after the shot, case would have been almost airtight. Yet this aspect is never explored at all which would be highly unusual for a very talented prosecutor.