There’s no question about how foolish this movie is. The film begins with District Attorney Mark Hunter (played by Michael Douglas) speaking to the jury at a murder trial: “The defense wants you to believe that our entire case rests on circumstantial details. There were no eyewitnesses, no ballistic evidence, and no alibi.” It's strange. You’d expect someone who has won 17 consecutive murder convictions to see the lack of an alibi as something that helps the prosecution, not the defense. Reporter C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) is convinced Hunter is dishonest; all those 17 convictions hinged on DNA evidence which Nicholas believes was planted by Hunter somehow. For instance, a cigarette butt found at a crime scene matches one seen in an interrogation video where the defendant is smoking; Nicholas's boss asks, as if to make a point, "How could someone put the cigarette there when the crime scene photos were taken three days earlier?" Despite this, Nicholas develops a poorly thought-out plan to frame himself for the murder of a prostitute using only circumstantial evidence (we know it’s ill-conceived because it's reminiscent of *Life of David Gale*). This involves buying a balaclava (and accidentally macing himself while wearing it. Oops!) and a pair of sneakers from an extremely rare brand that "stopped making them in 1999." The footprints left by these shoes match the size and weight of one found at the crime scene. I’d suggest this is a clue that (spoiler) Nicholas is actually the killer (otherwise, it would be an enormous coincidence), but that would probably give Hyams too much credit – especially considering how Nicholas forces a poor Jack Russell to bite him on his left calf, attempting to recreate the bite mark received by the murderer from a witness’s dog. The fact that he really is the killer means he already has a bite there. The second bite happens off-screen, which makes me think either Nicholas managed to get another dog to bite him in precisely the same spot as before, or Corey (Joel David Moore), his friend and partner (in everything except the murder), who’s also supposedly a journalist, can't tell the difference between an old and a new dog bite. And we won't even discuss the sneakers; Nicholas apparently owns two pairs of them (forgetting that they were "extremely rare"). The final layer of absurdity is that Nicholas’s scheme completely relies on Hunter being corrupt and willing to plant evidence, despite the fact that this is just a suspicion from Nicholas, and all his supposed proof is nothing more than guesswork.

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