Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
by Gregory Hoblit
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Embeth Davidtz, Rosamund Pike, Ryan GoslingDirector: Gregory Hoblit
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: EXCELLENT MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved this movie. I like Anthony Hopkins, and his portrayal of this character was really wonderful.DVD Review: Very entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a top notch legal thriller -- stylish with decent dialogue, taut plot with some interesting twists, a well developed villain and protagonist, and excellent acting all around. The weakest part of the film for me was the obligatory love interest, but that was a very minor distraction. Five stars may be a tad excessive, but for its genre it was one of most engrossing I've seen. I did guess the ending a short while before it was revealed, but not so soon that it spoiled the suspense.DVD Review: Best Nap of my LIFE
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay how to start this review....I watched this because I like Anthony Hopkins. He to me is a good on edge actor. Any who.... I started watching this and fell asleep within 20 minutes of the movie. This movie is god awful boring. I am so happy I did NOT pay $8 to see this theaters and went to see Blades of Glory. (Which I also fell asleep during) lol. I really think from what I have see of Fracture. Watched once Fell asleep during the start. Than I picked it up in the middle. I think this movie just sucked.DVD Review: I liked it
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm writing this after just watching this movie twice. It is difficult to figure out parts of it the first time around. I like for things to be subtle, but I think the director needed a little bit heavier hand in some spots. (I don't want to spoil it, so I won't go into this).
I rarely, rarely see a film I would recommend and I liked this one. It's intelligent in its content and really, really well filmed and well directed. I was afraid it would be too gruesome and I was reluctant to watch it, but it's not.
DVD Review: "Your Flaw is That You Are a Winner."
Summary: 5 Stars
"Even a broken clock is right, twice a day." Such are the zingers that Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) tosses at Willy Beachum, very young deputy D.A. This movie is a brilliant psychological thriller. Ted is convinced that he has executed the perfect crime. He readily confesses to shooting his wife, who he has caught in an affair. He is convinced his confession will be thrown out on technicalities. He is so convinced that he even attempts to serve as his own counsel for the trial. The person that he has caught his wife with adds even more intrigue to the movie, and he makes sure the person is there when the body is discovered so that he can see the look of anguish on the guy's face. The wife is not dead, however, and on life support in a coma. The young prosecutor knows he is losing badly and spends hours at her bedside hoping to revive her so she can name the shooter. Ted loves the game of cat and mouse with the young attorney, and feels that Willy is so cocky, he will trap himself up. The finale of the movie is worth the wait. Ted is so diabolically clever at every turn, covering all of the bases, but there are two little details he has forgotten. One concerns the double jeaopardy clause, and the other is in underestimating Willy's abilities. The movie is wonderful, but even more enjoyable with some fava beans and a little Chianti.
Description of Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
Academy Award?? winner Anthony Hopkins and Academy Award?? nominee Ryan Gosling are brilliant in this "exceptionally suspenseful nail-biter" (Rex Reed) that's so smart it "doesn't let go, even after the final twist" (Gene Shalit, "Today"). Ted Crawford (Hopkins) brutally murders his wife and calmly waits for the police to arrest him. With the weapon and a signed confession in hand, Deputy D.A., Willy Beachum (Gosling), believes a conviction is a slam dunk; that is until the case completely unravels. Now, with little evidence, Beachum goes head to head with the cunning Mr. Crawford in a desperate search for the truth and the answer to one burning question: How is this guy getting away with murder?Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant, pathologically serene killer outwitting the good guys at every turn and taking a shine to a twentysomething law enforcer who can't conceal a rural accent and rugged origins. Could it be...? No, not The Silence of the Lambs, but an original mystery, Fracture, which plays a little like Lambs as an episode of Columbo, minus Columbo. Which means the film tells us from the get-go that Hopkins' character, a wealthy engineer, shoots his philandering wife (Embeth Davidtz) and leaves her in a vegetative state. From there, it should be a simple matter for young, assistant District Attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) to nail Crawford, who provides a full confession and even eschews counsel. That's good for Beachum, a slick winner with a vague background of deprivation, rapidly on his way out of public service after attracting the attention of a deep-pocket, private firm. What he doesn't know, however, is that Crawford has masterminded more than vengeance against his wife, and that the state's case against him is full of pre-arranged holes and a huge time-bomb that will send Beachum scrambling to keep the pieces together.
The story, conceived and co-scripted by Daniel Pyne (Doc Hollywood), goes down easily with a minimum of blood and violence, and should easily appeal to mystery buffs as well as old fans of Hopkins and new admirers of Oscar nominee Gosling (Half Nelson). The latter holds his own in multiple, two-character scenes with the masterful portrayer of Hannibal Lecter, pacing Beachum's reactions to Crawford's polite provocations so everything spills onto his youthful face: torn loyalties, confusion, gullibility. Director Gregory Hoblit (Hart's War), still best-known for decades of distinguished television work (NYPD Blue), brings the necessary intimacy to make the stars' chemistry work effectively. His noirish atmosphere is a little over the top, sometimes pushing the audience to a level of expectation that the film isn't really ready to deliver, but this, overall, is an enjoyable work. --Tom Keogh
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