Fracture (Full Screen Edition) | 
| Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 10961
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: N11040
UPC: 794043110405
EAN: 0794043110405
ASIN: B000R4SMD6
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
Release Date: August 14, 2007
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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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 Fracture June 29, 2009
C. Bradford
Excellent movie!! Sir Anthony was superb and what a twist ending. I would highly recommend this movie even if you are not a Hopkins fan.
 What's wrong with this picture? June 12, 2009
Andrew Wiggin
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Worth watching? Absolutely.
A mind-twister? Sure.
Does it stand up to the test of scrutiny? Nope.
(WARNING: This review is for viewers who have already seen the movie.)
The problem with a VERY clever movie, is that it attracts viewers who are determined to figure it out. Therefore, the script-writer must be smarter and more careful than your average gum-snapping teen.
The big problems here are that our anti-hero plans every detail of "getting away with murder," except a few MAJOR details.
The entire plan will not work unless the detective-lover-guy reacts to the murderer's callousness by leaping at him and wrestling him to the floor. Without this, there can be no calculated switching of the same-make guns. Get it?
Also, the entire plan will not work if his wife had AT ANY TIME told detective-lover-guy where she lived or her last name. Ooops! And what if he was off-duty, or not called to the scene, or another hotshot cop went in first. Ooops, the whole plan fails.
(Just for fun, I'd love to know why the elaborate part was included, of murderer shooting through some windows. ??? )
Worse than these gambles, is the HUGE and ridiculous linchpin problem of detective-lover-guy NEVER realizing that maybe, just maybe, since he has the EXACT same gun, and no one can find the actual murder weapon, that just maybe he should have his checked. Once he does that, the whole plan is foiled, and hey, no need to blow your head off.
At the end, it was almost comical that our hero prosecutor's plan depended on murderer thinking they were alone (thus, no witnesses to hear the cliche confession). Yet, as soon as prosecutor opens the door, the whole yard is swarming with cops, with their police radios doing their noisy cliche thing. Come on, script-writer, stay clever and real to the end. Don't get tired of being sharp. Your viewers expected a full ride.
Aside from these jabs -- the acting, camera work, characters and pace were all excellent. A few times, lines were spoken so softly I had to playback and turn up. The blonde love-interest was interesting, but kind of dropped without tying it up for us. Shoot, I thought we were going to find out she was the private investigator who sold her services to a rich murderer.
Hey, gimme that script before you hurt yourself!
mind games and murder May 14, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
One comes to expect quality in an Anthony Hopkins movie.
He has become one of the truly great actors of our time
by making his roles interesting, original, and many times important.
In this one he plays an elderly genius with a younger cheating wife.
He stacks the evidence so that he gets off and disgraces the young lawyer who is prosecuting him. The twist at the end changes everything.
I liked it: the movie makes you wonder where the gun
is and the solution is just another mind game played out:
a very strange movie from the start.
EXCELLENT MOVIE March 20, 2009
Pam Parker (Missouri)
Loved this movie. I like Anthony Hopkins, and his portrayal of this character was really wonderful.
Very entertaining February 6, 2009
E. Karasik (Washington, DC United States)
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.
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