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Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HOPKINS,ANTHONY
EAN: 0794043107030
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: 794043107030
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Running Time: 113 minutes
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 2007
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Genre: Suspense
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good thriller...not an oscar film but fun
This movie is enjoyable and while it won't have you guessing until the last (its easy enough to figure out) it is well acted and enjoyable all the same. The only thing that bothered me was Hopkins character had many many plans thought out to the last detail and I wondered how then, he could forget the obvious (I wont give detail to spoil it) but the answer is simple isn't it: This IS Hollywood.
Rating: - Average and Not Enough Anthony
Fracture looked compelling in the trailers, and with Anthony Hopkins - even more so. Well, as it turns out, Fracture is neither a terribly gripping thriller nor a court room drama - it's somewhere in between and falls into the class of the above-average TV movie. Hopkins is inscrutable as always, but unfortunately, we don't quite get the battle of wits that we did in Silence of the Lambs. In this one, Ryan Gosling plays the male version of Foster's ingenue, but not as impressively. The film opens ... Read More
Rating: - The Making of Jack McCoy
I first saw this movie on HBO, and while I was glad I didn't pay money in a theater to see it, I still don't think it's the biggest waste of movie time ever. (I'm still trying to get back the 90 minutes of my life I lost to "The Forgotten," though I long since made Time-Warner refund me the $3.99 charge for its rental.) Initially I would have given Fracture 2 stars, but once I started thinking of Willie as a young Jack McCoy of Law and Order I decided it was really more of a 3, almost a 3.5 star movie. ... Read More
Rating:  - Bad--really bad
"Fracture" is the kind of movie you watch when you've become resigned to merely being entertained, and even then only require a little bit of motion on the screen to capture and keep your attention for the agonizing two hours of this film.
Ryan Gosling is almost decent as a DA who is trying to be too many things at once: really macho (he does some chin ups on a bar), a lawyer (he's terrible in court), charming (he smiles at a few women once in awhile), etc. At no point does his character ... Read More
Rating:  - Below average thriller does little more than lay ground for a sequel
The most enlightenment I got from this film was reading the Amazon promotional material, which indicates well-known critics like Rex Reed called this film "smart" and interesting. I found little of either in this boring rehash of roles Anthony Hopkins has lived off since his Hanibal Lechter days merged with a dull courtroom drama.
Hopkins is an aerodesigner that kills his wife, who's had an affair. He manages to get even with the guy that cuckolded him during the investigation and is tried by ... Read More
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