Fracture
Watched Fracture last nite. Hopkins is great as usual, though his character is not very different from his usual ones. Incredible smart, cinic, and just terrifying as a bad guy.
The plot is more or less that Hopkins’ character kills his wife and though he confesses to the fact, the guy plays the legal system in a way that the can get away with it. That is of course if go-get-at-it-always-win-lawyer, played by Ryan Gosling, can’t do something about it.
Though the plot is well developed and Hopkins’ scenes are good in the Hopkins’ way, you can figure out the twist about a third into the movie. We could have told it to the lawyer and save him a bunch of troubles.
The sequence where the twist is unveiled is quite good. It is perhaps the sequence in which the lawyer shines. I can’t say the same for him for the rest of the movie. There are a couple of subplots but the script doesn’t allow them to flourish.
All in all it was worth the $4…
October 29th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I predict Ryan Gosling will go on to greater things (say, a few Academy Awards down the line). So far, none of the movies I have seen him has been a disappointment at least with respect to his performance (The Notebook and Half Nelson spring to mind). He holds up very well against the force of Hopkins in this movie. Look for Gosling again in the wacky new movie “Lars and the Real Girl.”