Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
by Gregory Hoblit
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Embeth Davidtz, Rosamund Pike, Ryan GoslingDirector: Gregory Hoblit
Brand: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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
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- 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., Will
Movie Reviews of Fracture (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Fractured Flickers
Summary: 5 Stars
I knew my love for Ryan Gosling, already wavering at the brink after a few less than spectacularl performances, was in deep trouble when he opened his mouth in the DA's office in FRACTURE and out poured this muddled up, molasses mouth Southern accent (I guess) filched in bits and pieces from Jude Law and Kevin Spacey in MIDNIGHT AT THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL. They never exactly explained why Willy Beauchamp has attained a 97 percent conviction rate with this unintelligble Goober stammer, but you know what, after a half an hour or so Ryan just stopped talking in his soup and started speaking English like any other Angeleno. It's like his beginning to care about human values and other human beings brought on many changes, including adopting the standard "mid-American" speech patterns people on TV have. By the end of the movie he could have become a newscaster, and my love for him had returned, full strength, like an entire bottle of Excedrin. He's a fantastic actor and rabks right up there with his fellow new Mousekeeters of the period, Justin, Christina and Britney as far as star power goes. Didn't Anthony Hopkins win an Oscar or two? He should have brought them to the set of FRACTURE and gifted them to Ryan Gosling, as his successor, say on a break from filming, livened up the craft table or whatever it's called. For Gosling is the new Hopkins and in fact, when Hopkins was on the screen, the movie got unexpectedly dull--or if not dull, then incredibly obvious. It was like a successor to HANNIBAL--say Clarice got tired of being married to the ancient Hannibal Lecter and started cheating on him with a local detective--of course HL would seek his revenge, starting by shooting her point blank and leaving her for dead.
As Clarice Lecter--I mean, Jennifer Crawford, the lovely actress Embeth Davidtz who was so good in JUNEBUG turns in an amazing performance here, and the odd thing about it is, she's in a coma through most of it. Not since the poet John Giorno snooxed through 5 and a half hours of Andy Warhol's early feature SLEEP (1963) has any leading player spent so much of a film out cold.
As for the plot, how on earth could Crawford make sure that his wife's boyfriend would be the one who came to his door after the shot was fired? If the whole basis of his plot rested on that happening, it's even more ludicrous than it seems at first glance. But Ryan Gosling whispered to me, "Kevin, just relax, don't think about tomorrow, just go with the flow and smile from every inch of your body." He's so good to me, I could forgive him anything.
Summary 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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