Time and money well spent
Written: Apr 22 '07
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Pros: Hitchcock like murder mystery entertains from start to finish.
Cons: nothing to complain about a satisfying cinema experience.
The Bottom Line: If you want to see a good old fashioned murder mystery with a intelligent script, believable acting,and expensive producion values, not art house, don't miss "Fracture".
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| abluevoice's Full Review: Fracture |
I went to see the new film "Fracture" at a multiplex matinee the day after it opened. I was surprised the theatre was only about half full. But I shouldn't have been since these days the powers that be in Hollywood have forgotten how to sell or even market a quality mainstream film that doesn't have millions of bucks in special effects or lots of freaks slashing and torturing people. Even in the pre-opening TV commercials they mis-represent this film as some kind of psycho thriller with Anthony Hopkins as an implied fourth comming of Hannibal Lechter, or maybe it's a fifth comming? I've lost track.
"Fracture" is a intelligent and entertaining cinema experience. It proves that if you get the fundamentals right in film-making, good story, good characters played by good actors, and a solid director to pull it all together, you have a winner. And you don't have to spend millions in special effects to get people talking about it. Since this is a film that is going to surely get recomended via word of mouth over and over again, despite the PR people trying to sell it as something it isn't.
It is a Hitchcock like murder mystery and courtroom drama that keeps you wondering how it is going to turn out right from the opening scenes. It's an old theme, a rich and brilliant aero-space engineer, played to perfection by Anthony Hopkins commits the perfect crime and comes head to head with a seemingly overmatched and overly opportunistic young assistant district attorney played by Ryan Gosling.
Gosling is turning into one of Hollywood's better actors, as evidenced by his recent academy award nomination for "Half Nelson". He is perfect in this part and despite his quirkiness gets you rooting for him and the legal system he is defending. While Hopkins, with a twist of a smile or uplifted eyebrow says more about his character than a thousand words of dialogue could. The two of them go head to head, at first reluctently, sucking the viewer into an immensely intriguing and entertaining legal dogfight that plays out until the final satisfying scene.
When the film ended there was a low level buzz in the theatre as I exited and overheard the other viewers telling each other how much they liked it.
Recommended:
Yes
Movie Mood: None of the Above
Viewing Method: Other
Worst Part of this Film: Nothing
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