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Fracture |
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C |
I remember seeing the trailer for this movie and thinking,
“Anthony Hopkins playing a genius getting away with murder,
teaching some snot-nosed punk lawyer who’s who? This’ll
be great!” Instead what I got was 2 hours or bad jokes,
a useless romance, and an ending that left me frustrated. It
had a good premise, some decent acting, but was overall a very
mediocre film. My biggest gripe with this movie was not the
acting or even the dialogue, but the absurdity and uselessness
of the “romance” aspect. Within minutes of meeting
his new blonde, smoking-hot boss, there were already not-so-subtle
insinuations of future fornication. What kind of law firm is
this? Let’s face it, there are no lawyers that look and
act like Rosamund Pike did in this movie. I wouldn’t have
minded so much except that the romance seemed purely lustful,
so unless there’s some nudity, it’s completely useless.
Anthony Hopkins was about the only good thing in this movie,
and even he was shut down in the end. You know the movie is
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C- |
You can always have fun with crime dramas as you plot twists
and turns. The concept has been done a million times and it
hasn’t gotten old yet in my mind. But your actors absolutely
have to convince me that they are in trouble or scared. Ryan
Gosling fails to do just that as I kept wondering if Anthony
Hopkins walked away after every take shaking his head. In classic
cool mode, Hopkins played this role, as usual, to the best of
his ability and he seemed almost bored.
I actually would have preferred Rosamund Pike to swap roles
with Gosling as she was more convincing in her role as Gosling’s
love interest/future supervisor. Director Gregory Hoblit is
more at home producing TV dramas and Fracture would have seemed
more at home during prime time on NBC.
Side Note: Look for Rosamund Pike costarring with Johnny Depp
in Libertine.
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