In director Gregory Hoblit's 2007 thriller, FRACTURE, one thing is clear-highly successful engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) has shot his wife (Embeth Davidtz). What is not clear, though, is how Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), an assertive assistant D.A. on the verge signing with a major law firm, will convict Crawford, since the calculating suspect is masterfully exploiting legal loopholes that may keep him a free man. Director Gregory Hoblit Star Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling, Billy Burke, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Special Features: Widescreen Audio: (unspecified) - English Additional Release Material: Alternate Scenes - Endings (2) Deleted Scenes Year of Release: 2007.
Reviews:
We're sure glad Anthony Hopkins took this role instead of phoning in more demystifying entries in the Hannibal Lecter canon. The master thespian plays a supergenius structural engineer who kills his philandering wife, then leads a hotshot prosecutor (played by white-hot Ryan Gosling) on a cat-and-mouse nightmare through trial. It's familiar material executed with flair.