It may be a late release in 2009, but Fracture is definitely up there with one of the best thrillers of the year. Starring the always amazing Anthony Hopkins, the cleverly directed action thriller takes the viewer on a journey through an old school who dunnit’ style film.
The cat and mouse games begin when engineer Ted Crawford kills his wife with w gun shot to the back of her head. He wastes no time in admitting what he did and is assigned Assistant District Attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Goslin) as his prosecutor. Beachum is basically tying up all the loose ends before he begins his new job as a cushy executive in a rich firm.
The case is supposed to be his last before his promotion but it ends up being more than he bargained for when all things start going pear shaped. Along the way, the case starts beginning to appear more of a set up than a straightforward sentence, and before you know it, Crawford’s mind games start playing tricks on Beachum who begins to change for the bad.
Fracture takes viewers on an edge of the seat thriller, an the plot moves along in a really a simple, but very effective way. Finally, the movie would not have been half as successful had it not been for the amazing performance put in my Hopkins. His acting prowess really shines in Fracture, where his bad boy figure resembles that of Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs.
