Fracture movie6/18/2023 Hopkins brings his Academy Award quality back to the screen, and Gosling continues to prove himself as one of today’s true rising stars. The directing, writing and acting in FRACTURE are all superb. And, whether Jennifer will survive her wounds only adds to the suspense. Nothing is as easy as it seems, however, especially this case. It is a seemingly “slam dunk” case for the prosecutor assigned to the case, hot shot assistant district attorney Willy Beachum (played by Ryan Gosling). Crawford is arrested and charged with her attempted murder. Then, although Crawford’s wife Jennifer was shot at point blank range, Det. However, the detective is too shocked to pay close attention, as he realizes the victim, whose identity he didn’t know, is his adulterous lover. Crawford immediately confesses to the detective of shooting his wife. Detective Nunally is the only officer permitted to enter the house. Among the police officers arriving at the crime scene at Crawford’s home is hostage negotiator Detective Rob Nunally (played by Billy Burke). The police soon arrive and believe Crawford is only holding his wife hostage. When Ted Crawford (played by Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his beautiful younger wife, Jennifer, is having an affair, he plans the perfect murder – her murder. Some strong foul language and mature themes, and the movie's R rating, require extreme caution, however. The story and action move along well and keep the audience “enticed” throughout the film. Although the entire plot deals with murder and infidelity, the ending is morally redemptive. The directing, writing, and acting are all superb in FRACTURE. However, a seemingly “slam dunk” case for the prosecutor, an assistant DA played by Ryan Gosling, proves to be anything but. Crawford is arrested and charged with attempted murder. Then, although Jennifer was shot at point blank range, Det. However, the detective is too shocked to pay attention, as he realizes the victim, whose identity he didn’t know, is his adulterous lover. Crawford immediately confesses to the detective of shooting Jennifer. Among the police officers arriving at the crime scene at his home is hostage negotiator Detective Rob Nunally. When Ted Crawford (Hopkins) discovers that his beautiful younger wife, Jennifer, is having an affair, he plans the perfect murder – her murder. Right girl, wrong film.FRACTURE is a thriller starring Anthony Hopkins. There’s simply not enough Hopkins, and not enough wisdom at the writing/directing end of the production to spot that the scenes between Gosling and Hopkins are what makes the film tick (in spite of the fact that Hopkins has decided his character is some faint relation of Hannibal Lecter).Īnd then there’s the decision to drag in Rosamund Pike to play footsie with Gosling in a sexy-siren subplot. The film is more a howdunit than a whodunit, and ingenious enough, though Fracture does come with its own faultlines. Can public prosecutor Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) nail him? Hopkins is the wealthy Irish-American engineer who’s flagrantly killed his wife but has so arranged things that the case against him appears to be falling apart in the courtroom, in spite of the fact he was found with the weapon in his hand and has fessed up. Anthony Hopkins plays the cat to Ryan Gosling’s mouse in this glossy thriller from Gregory Hoblit, whose CV (including 1996’s Primal Fear and 2002’s Hart’s War) demonstrates he’s a slick journeyman.
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