It can't be an altogether bad thing when an audience leaves a theater smiling and laughing. Everytime Cranky suspected a continuity error, a logical explanation surfaced almost immediately. That kind of attention makes the other plot flaws, believe it or not, less serious. Maybe, maybe not. It tries too hard.
Cold fusion is the Holy Grail of energy.
Theoretically, it could produce everything we need for all time, cheaply and cleanly, from nothing more than the hydrogen in a glass of water. Scientists have been trying to crack Nature's code for years, to unleash the Power. Within a day the leader of the project is dead. The experiment itself has gone haywire and destroyed 8 square blocks of the South Side. The FBI shows up and shortly thereafter, Reeves and Lily Sinclair, an English physicist played by Rachel Weisz, are on the run, accused of murder and espionage.