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REVIEW: 'FRACTURE' SMOOTHLY ENTERTAINING

"Does it bother you that I call you 'Willy'?" Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) inquires of prosecuting attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling). "Very well then: Willy ..." Hopkins teases out every ounce of absurdity he can find in the name. A boy's name, surely, not a name for a high-powered attorney?
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Fracture

Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts.

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There were several things about this film that I did not like.

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For instance the cop seeing Hopkin's wife on the ground and forgetting everything and just going towards her giving Hopkins time to plant a gun and give him the fake one was ridiculous.

Then the gross underestimation of Hopkins at the end with his wife and double jeopardy, even I could have seen that coming. Hopkin's character should be smarter than that.