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Fracture movie7/31/2023 ![]() ![]() I was watching the movie with my parents and we were determined to see the end, so my dad purchased a two day rental just so we could finish the movie. Apparently, my DVD has a deep scratch in it that cannot be repaired. I cleaned, wiped, and even washed the DVD, but nothing I did cleared the issue. In fact, my DVD stopped about 25 minutes before the end. ![]() The plot, itself, is enough to keep you glued to the set. None of that extraneous stuff was required in this movie. Even though the movie is about adultery and murder, nothing requires a viewer to turn away due to grotesque or salacious scenes. While there is some bad language, it seems to fit with the plot and not shoved into the dialog for ratings. This is definitely a movie that demands your attention. This is not light-watching material that can be used as background noise. They have an actual plot that keeps the viewer enthralled in the movie. I have been reminded how some of the movies from the past are a lot better than current day releases. It is one of the older movies in my DVD collection, which I have been delving into lately. Still, like Fear, Fracture is memorable and worthwhile (at the time of this review it has an overwhelming fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes) simply for lovers of great acting for the sheer pleasure to be derived in watching two superb talents go head to head.I recently watched Fracture (2007) starring Anthony Hopkins & Ryan Gosling again. Although director Hoblit manages to pull the wool over our eyes numerous times with twists throughout, two of the major “surprises” are fairly easy to predict to audience members who have seen more than a couple of legal thrillers, including Hoblit’s masterpiece Primal Fear starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. However, this last case proves to be quite upsetting when Crawford opts to serve as his own attorney, waiting for the chance to discredit Officer Nunally and challenge the hotshot Beachum whose weakness for success and self-centered tunnel vision may be his downfall. It seems like an open and shut case when it’s given to young, talented prosecutor Willy Beachum (Gosling) who is eager to leave his ninety-seven percent conviction rate earning minor paydays for the city of Los Angeles to become a climbing, wealthy attorney at an exclusive law firm where he’s offered a job. Preferring murder to Jerry Springer styled theatrics, Crawford waits until his wife returns later in the evening and puts a bullet in her brain, later confessing to the crime when Nunally comes to the house only to find his lover shot. ![]() This being said, he plays the privileged sociopaths with superiority complexes better than most actors around and such is the case in Fracture which finds Hopkins at his devious and pretentious best as structural engineer Ted Crawford who at the start of the film follows his beautiful younger wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) during her extramarital tryst with police Lieutenant Robert Nunallay (Billy Burke). While that is as true as it was when he turned in his amazing Oscar nominated performance in Half Nelson, the man who may want to be careful in Fracture is Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins who has not only cornered the market on playing creepy killers but if he isn’t careful, he’s going to become typecast to the point that those roles are all that he’s offered. Entertainment Weekly stated in their review of Fracture that if Ryan Gosling isn’t careful, he’s going to become a movie star. ![]()
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