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scraffy009

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Great thriller and an awesome storyline. The cast was perfect for the roles and Anthony Hopkins plays the puzzling murder(?) great. The back and forth between Ryan Gosling and him is great. They really play off each other. The movie and ending...
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Great thriller and an awesome storyline. The cast was perfect for the roles and Anthony Hopkins plays the puzzling murder(?) great. The back and forth between Ryan Gosling and him is great. They really play off each other. The movie and ending were great.

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Posted may 2, 2008 10:04 am pt

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Starring Anthony Hopkins and the talented Ryan Gosling. Opinions differ on this, but I thought it was brilliant. An old-fashioned courtroom drama and a battle of wits. There are some scenes where Hopkins seems to try too hard to be menacing and...
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Starring Anthony Hopkins and the talented Ryan Gosling. Opinions differ on this, but I thought it was brilliant. An old-fashioned courtroom drama and a battle of wits. There are some scenes where Hopkins seems to try too hard to be menacing and like Hannibal Lecter but they don't really affect the overall tone of the movie. Recommended!!

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Posted feb 17, 2008 2:05 am pt

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Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling do a wonderful job in this thriller. The suspense is great. and I think it is a great story as well.

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Posted may 17, 2007 10:09 am pt

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Anthony Hopkins is certainly an actor that will become a "classic" of our time, and his performance here shows it.
I do like the fact this was never a "who-done-it" show. They made it very clear at the beginning who did...
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Anthony Hopkins is certainly an actor that will become a "classic" of our time, and his performance here shows it.
I do like the fact this was never a "who-done-it" show. They made it very clear at the beginning who did it. But it was about the cat and mouse game Hopkins played with Gosling. And despite every brilliant, intelligent move Hopkins made, or even designed, he lost in the end.

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Posted may 14, 2007 1:34 pm pt

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This is an interesting movie with 2 good actors in it. Part of the problem is that one of those actors has less than an hours screen time. Hopkins plays a man who kills his wife and admits to it. Gosling plays the DA who is days away from leaving...
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This is an interesting movie with 2 good actors in it. Part of the problem is that one of those actors has less than an hours screen time. Hopkins plays a man who kills his wife and admits to it. Gosling plays the DA who is days away from leaving his job to take a cushy position in a big firm. This "seems" to be a slam dunk of a case and in the end we find out its not so easy. The acting in the movie is well done but hopkins does not have a long screen time. Gosling is in the bulk of the film as the da investigating the crime. There are your basic plot twists in this movie that you would expect from any movie like this. Is there anything here that you have not seen before? I would have to say no. No new ground broken in this movie. Its more of a cat and mouse movie with a twist in the ending. This is a good movie thats worth a viewing.

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Posted may 13, 2007 11:14 am pt

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This is pretty good. It had all the twists and turns that always keep people guessing in these type of films. Ryan Gosling delivers a good performance and Anthony Hopkins plays the character he made famous which is a sly, cunning, crafty, smooth,...
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This is pretty good. It had all the twists and turns that always keep people guessing in these type of films. Ryan Gosling delivers a good performance and Anthony Hopkins plays the character he made famous which is a sly, cunning, crafty, smooth, and intelligent murderer. I will not however spoil the plot, but this movie will have you guessing until the end because it sure did with me.

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Posted may 1, 2007 6:13 am pt

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besides ryan gosling's first star performance, fracture has more than one weakness in its shell. the payoff comes too slow as a too familiar anthony lector tricks and schemes.

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Posted apr 24, 2007 5:22 pm pt

westcoastwillam

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this is a pretty good movie mostly because Hopkins is one of the best actor of all time and Gosling put's on a great performance in this thinker movie that makes you wonder until towards the end then the ending was kinda like other thinker movie...
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this is a pretty good movie mostly because Hopkins is one of the best actor of all time and Gosling put's on a great performance in this thinker movie that makes you wonder until towards the end then the ending was kinda like other thinker movie or whatever you want to call them but needless to sayt he plot was quite good and the acting was super and the story was good so it was worth the money to see but there not to much more to say since i don't like giving away the movie so hope this helped :)

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Posted apr 24, 2007 9:45 am pt

John666666666

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A good movie. A good drama with twists and turns and great actors. Anthony Hopkins is great as always.

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Posted apr 23, 2007 4:50 pm pt

• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  91
  The plot's many complications pretty much all add up, which is a rarity these days for a murder mystery. It's possible that audiences don't even care anymore if a film makes sense as long it's entertaining.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
  90
  This hugely entertaining thriller is what's needed to banish a winter-long case of movie blues.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  Fracture is working on us, playing us, but that's its pleasure. It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  83
  Sneaks up on you. At first, it plays like it might be another in a long line of dullish legal thrillers. But then, in its modest, grown-up way, it keeps getting better and better.

  by M. E. Russell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  80
  The main interest here is the juxtaposing of Gosling's Method acting with Hopkins's more classical style, a spectacle even more mesmerizing than the settings.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  80
  Gosling is the kind of actor who makes other actors look lazy. He is Brando at the time of "Streetcar," or Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces," and altogether one of the more remarkable happenings at the movies today.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Gruesomely engaging.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  75
  Just because a movie is freakin' preposterous doesn't mean it can't be diabolical fun. Case in point: Fracture.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Effective dialogue doesn't necessarily mean witty dialogue, but wit certainly helps, and you tend not to get much of it in a low-key legal thriller. Fracture is an exception.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  The best thing about Fracture is the way in which it defies genre cliches and turns all Hopkins' mannerisms into assets.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  It's occasionally quite witty, it's able to tell us a great deal about its characters and their back stories in an economic fashion and its plot swings are surprising and compelling.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  75
  It's a provocative game that plays out with intelligence and wit.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  75
  Not since Lecter has a role been this well suited to Hopkins, whose intelligence and pristine formality as an actor often make him seem alien--or worse, an incorrigible ham.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  75
  The delight here is in the sheer workmanship. The performances, the direction, the plotting, they're just nicely engineered, usually with an eye to that most underrated of virtues -- refined simplicity.

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  The kind of thriller we've seen a thousand times before. Fortunately, nobody told leads, Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins, both of whom devoutly believe they're in another, better movie.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »