The two cops walked into the wrong house and ended up shooting the main character and framing him.
But they walked into the wrong house. They had no search warrant, not even a probable cause to get inside the house. Is the evidence they found valid under the circumstances? They broke into the house, giving the owner the right to shoot them.
Indeed. Check out this post:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097579/board/thread/82749103?d=84273135&p=1#84273135
Yeah this whole film is far fetched, I swore I thought I was watching the lifetime channel when I saw this, total piece of crap!
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It's not a piece of crap. Almost all movies stretch the truth & take some liberties but that doesn't mean it's all one big unrealistic fairy tale. I'm sure there have been many cases in real life where ppl have been victimized by corrupt or incompetent cops that planted evidence & pretended to use probable cause or got search warrants w/out a good reason from some incompetent judge. I thought the movie was fantastic & a great cautionary tale about how anyone can become a victim when cops go bad & the justice system fails to protect us.
"Well thank you, pal. The day I get outta prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car!"
In any case I liked "An Innocent Man" a lot better than "Shawshank Redemption". Many years later I watched another really great prison movie, "The Next 3 Days" with Russell Crowe. Such unforgettable movies are created maybe once in a decade...
shareAn Innocent Man is better than Shawshank Redemption???? And you call yourself WaldenPond, who dropped the ball here, or were you in a bad car accident?
shareThank you. I keep seeing posts about how great this movie is. It's crap and I had to turn it off which is something I rarely do. Maybe the prison scenes got better, but I didn't get that far.
I realized from the very first scene in the hangar that it was poorly written. Some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard. It literally made me cringe, but I continued watching because I like Tom Selleck. The scenes with his wife were equally cringeworthy.
The first drug bust (before they went to Selleck's place) was ridiculous. Law enforcement NEVER sends just two officers in on a drug bust with multiple people in the home. Backup would have been called BEFORE they go in and shoot the place up, not after. The way they put the drugs in some random cardboard box made me laugh out loud. That's not how evidence is collected. It makes me sad that people think this is how it works. No wonder people hate cops if they believe this garbage.
Then they go to Selleck's place based solely on an address. No names or descriptions of suspects. They didn't do a check to see who owned the house. They didn't check for previous arrests or suspicious activity at the address. They didn't even sit and observe the house first. Just smash on in with no warrant and no probable cause. If the acting was good, I could probably put up with it. Sadly, it's not good. What a waste of time.
The people you idolize wouldn't like you.