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Features Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling & David Strathairn. Running Time:112 Min. Rating: R DVD Extras: Two alternate endings, deleted scenes, alternate scenes and a theatrical trailer. Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) is the CEO of the successful aeronautical firm which bears his name. The multi-millionaire drives a six-figure sports car and lives in a hilltop mansion overlooking Los Angeles with a trophy wife (Embeth Davidtz) half his age whom he absolutely adores. However, that thin line between love and hate evaporates soon after he discovers that she's been conducting a steamy affair with a hunky, young homicide detective (Billy Burke). Instead of confronting them about the illicit liaison, Ted sets about carefully concocting an elaborate plan for revenge. Then, he shoots his spouse in the head and rather than try to cover up the crime, he simply waits for the police to arrive and matter-of-factly admits the dastardly deed to the investigating officer, who happens to be her shocked lover, Detective Nunally.Crawford is carted off to jail for what appears to be an open-and-shut case, especially since he decides to represent himself. However, Nunally never informed prosecutor Willy Beacham (Ryan Gosling) about his relationship with Mrs. Crawford who was left comatose in a vegetative state with the bullet still embedded in her brain. Because the cops could never find the murder weapon, the state's case comes apart at the seams when the defendant makes an undisputed accusation that his confession had been beaten out of him by an officer who had been secretly sleeping with his wife. Meanwhile hotshot attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) is about to abandon the district attorney’s offices for more lucrative lawyering grounds associated with a big firm. He’s assigned one last case and thinks it will be an easy one since there’s a signed confession. However, it turns out to be Ted’s case and it will be anything but easy as Ted has a few tricks up his sleeves. Will keep you guessing until the end! Hope this helps you decide.Thanks for reading! :)Read full review
The first scenes in director Gregory Hoblit's suspense are of Ted Crawford's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) masterfully precise, polished & intricately engineered room of inventions. The setting is all important as it points to the murder's genius. We witness Crawford kill his attractive, somewhat younger wife, Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz). So there's no suspense built up before witnessing her murder in the same room that displays his other works. There's no guessing why Crawford chose to kill his beloved: Jennifer was having an affair with police Lt. Robert Nunally (Billy Burke). Enter genius of another type: Asst. DA Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), whose record of convictions has a leading law firm eager to have him join their team. Beachum's about to close his last case when the DA persuades him to close in on Crawford for murder one. The hot shot prosecutor can't resist testing his mettle with the likes of Crawford's. A much more mild mannered 'Hannibal Lecter' cannot help but come to mind, as Crawford begins to play highly calculated games in Beachum's ballpark: the law. Suspense becomes dependent upon one question alone: which one's genius will out wit the other's? Like Hannibal Lecter's infamous for doing, Crawford relentlessly exploits every loose end in the law & Beachum's gapping holes in the case against him. The more Crawford taunts Beachum, as if he's an upstart, the more competitive Beachum becomes. Instead of the case being a matter of solving it, for Beachum, it's a matter of beating Crawford at his best game yet. It's literally risky business to do so because Beachum's ambition to land the law firm's offer & attend to his sophisticated girlfriend, Nikki Gardner (Rosamund Pike) are very high stakes with which to gamble. And, from the start, Beachum's got 2 major obstacles to overcome: he can't locate the murder weapon & the Lieutenant failed to tell him that his lover was Crawford's wife. Ouch! The reason I've compared "Fracture's" Crawford to "Silence of the Lambs' Lecture is because the 'cat and mouse' chase between a younger eager law enforcement agent and an older master of his trade is a major similarity between the two films. Other than that, Hopkins plays Crawford in just an understated British-mannered style of acting that he's nothing like the evil incarnate cannibal Lecter. Crawford likes an ultimate challenge. Beachum's determined to remain unbeaten. As critquer I feel it's a mistake to place this film in the 'thriller' genre. What Hoblit and the cast have done is created a film that artfully builds up the tensions of good suspense step by step, gradually. It's definitely not a thriller because there is no point in the film where an audience would be holding on to their seats for someone to jump out of a closet or for things that go bump in the night. Hopkins delivers in the genre he's an Oscar winner. Without his lead performance "Fracture" wouldn't have the same tension build up of suspense. We know what the elder master of suspense is capable of performing. That, in and of itself, drew me into the plot, immediately.Read full review
It's rare these days that you see a movie that you can't figure out in the first minute and half. Usually its "oh...that guy did it by moving the wall and using a blow gun." Not so with "Fracture." This one is right up there with "The Usual Suspects" and "Primal Fear" in the suspense category. And even though Anthony Hopkins is basically doing a more restrained Hannibal Lecter, his performance is impeccable and very believable. The Blu-ray version of the film is just beautiful; you'll see every nuance of Jack Crawford's amazing kinetic sculptures along with a rich color palate for those LA sunsets. That plus a terrific HD sountrack make this a winner. If you love courtroom dramas with more twists than an LA freeway, give "Fracture" a spin; I think you'll like it.Read full review
Very suspenseful Anthony Hopkins tries to fool everybody my killing his wife but it makes for a little bit of a slip up
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Anthony Hopkins in a less Hannibal Lector kind of way
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