MOVIE REVIEW: 'Fracture'


From the April 20 Oregonian ....




A cold-blooded aircraft engineer (Anthony Hopkins) shoots his cheating wife in the head and confesses to the crime. It looks like a slam-dunk for a cocky deputy DA (Ryan Gosling) who's due to start at a private law firm in two weeks.

But the engineer plays a few well-hidden aces that throw the courtroom into chaos. And the stubborn prosecutor gets mired in public humiliation and police corruption, threatening his cocktail-party future.

"Fracture" sneaks up on you. At first, it plays like it might be another in a long line of dullish legal thrillers. But then, in its modest, grown-up way, it keeps getting better and better; soon, you're fully absorbed by the mechanics of Hopkins' howdunit, but also by the deeper mystery -- which is less about whether the subtly funny Gosling will lose his case and more about whether he'll lose his soul.

B-plus; 112 minutes; R for language and some violent content.

Confession of a dangerous mind (The Oregonian, April 20, 2007)

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Posted: Fri - April 20, 2007 at 02:33 PM        

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