Skye's review of "Fracture"
May 01, 2007
Last month I blogged and linked to the film “Fracture”. There aren’t many films I’ll plunk down 10 bucks for and see on the big screen but hey, for Anthony Hopkins I’ll gladly venture to the movie theatre opening weekend pull out $25 for a ticket, popcorn and a coke and sit back to listen and watch him for 2 hours.
Hopkins is Ted Crawford, a brilliant and meticulous structural engineer who finds out his wife is having an affair. He decides to kill her but before pulling the trigger he devises the “perfect crime”. Gosling is Willy Beachum, the assistant DA with a 97% conviction rate who prosecutes Crawford. OK, enough of the plot, you get the idea. I liked the film but as an admirer of Hopkins, I’m biased. The script was good and there were many laugh out loud moments in the court room and in the banter between Crawford and Beachum. Bits of Dr. Lecter spill into Ted Crawford, I guess Hopkins couldn’t help himself but heck, Hannibal and Ted are alike, wealthy, brilliant and both hang out on the dark side of the force...and is it me or does everyone love it when Hopkins winks?
The twist at the end was OK but I expected more. I read that Hopkins and Gosling were brought in to re-shoot the ending of the film, so I wonder if there will be an alternate ending on the DVD release.
Bottom line, if you are a Hopkins or Gosling fan or want to watch an intelligent thriller on the big screen, go for it. If not, wait for the DVD and enjoy in a few months.
Cool things in the film…
Ted’s car…a Porsche Carrera GT, sweet!
Ted house…awesome home and property.
Ted’s marble rolling sculptures…chaos and symmetry in one.
FYI…Against popular belief, Hopkins has only portrayed 2 criminals in his film career, Hannibal Lecter and Ted Crawford.
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