As a vehicle for two fine actors, Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, it's at its best.
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04/19/07
Fracture (2007)
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Reviews Counted:163
Fresh:115
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Though Fracture's plot is somewhat implausible, the onscreen face-off between Gosling and Hopkins overshadows any faults.
Theatrical Release:20-04-2007
Synopsis: In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear--highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is... [More]
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling, Billy Burke
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Reviews for Fracture
This could easily have become a stupid twistorama like last week's Perfect Stranger. But, with the help of an outstanding cast, [director] Hoblit keeps the focus on character.
04/19/07
It's been quite a few years since we've had an intelligent, engaging legal thriller. Into the void slips Fracture, which fits the bill thanks to a polished script, great stars and a director perfectly suited for this territory.
04/19/07
Somewhere along the way I gave up on following the ostensibly mind-boggling plot and just thrilled to the visible electricity between the two male leads.
04/19/07
Sometimes movies that shouldn't work deliver an outcome that's as satisfying as Fracture.
04/19/07
Just because a movie is freakin' preposterous doesn't mean it can't be diabolical fun. Case in point: Fracture.
04/19/07
With Anthony Hopkins in the lead and a screenplay that was composed by writers not merely interested in fitting together a jigsaw puzzle of clichés, this movie is gruesomely engaging.
04/19/07
Hums along at a steady clip navigating narrative twists and turns that may be complex but seem wholly predetermined and inorganic.
04/19/07
This is an intricately plotted, intensely involving and superbly acted psychological study that should raise the bar for the next plodding Grisham adaptation.
04/19/07
While Fracture walks a thin line between fulfilling expectations and confounding them, screenwriter Daniel Pyne does a reasonably good job in balancing the battle of wits between his rising legal-eagle and his calculating wife-killer.
04/19/07
Powerfully acted and tightly plotted, Fracture is solid entertainment.
04/19/07
Fracture takes a legal procedural that reeks of week-old Law & Order and pulls it off with unexpected zeal by playing up the bass line instead of the melody and by offering us two gifted actors working at the top of their game.
04/19/07
It's the two characters' exchanges that make this predictable legal thriller rewarding.
04/19/07
The strengths of director Gregory Hoblit's drama may well have nothing to do with what gets gets filmgoers off the couch and into the multiplex.
04/19/07
This legal thriller pits these two brilliant actors against one another in a sustained battle of wills that has enough sizzle to keep us rapt even when the storyline sags and zags.
04/19/07
Fracture may be Hollywood slick, but it's got a niftily intricate plot and some explosive mano a mano acting that keep you riveted.
04/19/07
Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling lend taut, entertaining performances to this predictable, but smartly executed, film.
04/19/07
The talent in front of the camera is too good to be wasted on something this trivial.
04/19/07
The problem with courtroom dramas is repeatability. Once you know the twist of the resolution, only a considerable length of time merits watching it again.
04/19/07
You might enjoy Fracture if you managed to steer clear of its trailer, which reveals approximately 98% of the film's content.
04/19/07
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