Continuity mistake: When Jerry is captured and strapped in a wheel chair, in his escape attempt he is rolling down a stair and the two footholds of the chair brake. Two seconds later, while the chair keeps rolling, the footholds break for the second time.
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Plot summary
Directed by: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart
Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a man who has supposedely crazy theories about the government, e.g how the vietnam war started, who actually killed JFK. He prints these theories in a newspaper, called, unsurprisingly, conspiracy theory. However, one of his theories turns out to be true. A shady man called Dr Jonas (Patrick Stewart somehow finds out about this, so obviously some very important people want Fletcher dead. Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), who Fletcher is obsessed with, and who Dr Jonas convinces Fletcher is mad, also works with the government, but she realises Fletcher may not be so crazy after all...
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Jerry Fletcher: A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.
Question: Shouldn't Dr Jonas and his men have been arrested for what they did? And shouldn't the guys who employed have been arrested too?
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Answer: They may have been arrested eventually but it would only happen after a lengthy and involved investigation that would extend beyond the movie's timeline.
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