Fracture

Fracture looks beautiful with all its low-lighting and gritty style.....the scenes have played out, Fracture remains a light and enjoyable legal film....The final nail in the coffin of Fracture 's attempt to revitalize the dramatic legal film is the ending.....It's the drawn out moments which take Fracture from a compelling legal drama to a ho-hum courtroom venture.....even they can't undo the damage of the extra 20 minutes thrown in to demonstrate the cat and mouse concept every legal film thrills with.... ... Full Review

And Gosling makes Willy so thoroughly haughty and overbearing....Understand, Hopkins makes his character Crawford so diabolically clever and charming....Hopkins' character is truly bad.....We can always depend upon Hopkins to turn in a stellar performance.... ... Full Review

The talented Cliff Curtis does his best with his bland role....Indeed, the scenes they share with each other are notably stronger than those with the rest of the fairly weak supporting cast (David Straithairn notwithstanding, of course).....As soon as they put these two in a room together, the movie really starts--their initial shared scene (Hopkins' arraignment) is sharp, witty, sly, and perfectly played.....Billy Burke is dull as toast in the key male supporting role....Watching his studied, precise, stri ... Full Review

That one mystery is clever, believable, and what's more - and I mean this as a compliment - solvable. In the case of Fracture, it's rising star Ryan Gosling and the always capable Anthony Hopkins. ... Full Review

That's but one example of his brilliance in "Fracture," another legal thriller set in that strange world where the courts are the wide-open playground of the criminally insane. Hopkins' bloodless killer is disturbing and funny, but he never feels as real as he should. ... Full Review

complete Fracture review by Movie Addict) Fracture Movie Review by Jarrod (8/29/2007) "Fracture' is an ingenious and perplexing thriller, expertly paced and plotted. complete Fracture review by Matthew) Fracture Movie Review by Thom (7/27/2008) Director Gary Hoblit, whose name I later spotted as the opening credits rolled on Untraceable and for me seemed to come out of nowhere (he's also directed Fallen and Hart's War), delivers some solid work in films that offer interesting character studies, attracting ... Full Review

All in all, a really great movie. The acting was fantastic, and so was the storyline. A movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, you can expect it to be good. ... Full Review

FRACTURE: Fails To Break Any New Ground Imagine my surprise then to come across FRACTURE, a film that denies its own existence as a SILENCE OF THE LAMBS knock-off by dressing itself up as a courtroom drama. ... Full Review

In the midst of this thickening plot is the brilliant yet unsuspecting lawyer (Richard Gere), whose powers of deduction pale in the face of his client's intelligence. Hopkins, most at ease in prisoner overalls pulls a Hannibal yet again, with his unflinching facial expressions, quick dialogue delivery and an evil he procures with great panache. ... Full Review

The supporting cast is strong, especially Strathairn and Burke. Gosling is very effective and convincing as Beachum. Crawford is a patient and intelligent man, a millionaire with a beautiful, though much younger wife named Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz). ... Full Review