Fracture (2007) Review

By Corisa Moreno

Ouch! Ouch! Please stop beating me over the head with your secondary plot of pseudo-moral judgment calls. You are going to fracture my skull. You see, fracture means to crack or break something, not to make a movie about a murderer and a prosecutor that we really don’t care about.

Plot overview: Anthony Hopkins’ character, Ted Crawford, shoots his unfaithful wife, gets arrested and then begins to act like a bumbling old fool in order to pull off his oh-so-clever scheme. The assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) is a young hot shot who just landed a job at a big corporate firm. He gets Crawford’s case in his last week of work at the humble DA’s office. Should he stay at his low paying but righteous job or should he go make corporate bank? It is a hard, difficult and painfully soul-searching quest that Willy has embarked on. But ultimately, he needs to find that dang murder weapon.

I was so bored with them continuously trying to find the murder weapon that if I could have, I would have told them where to find the murder weapon and then we wouldn’t have to hear about finding the murder weapon anymore. But of course, finding the murder weapon is the crux of this terribly unengaging ‘psychological thriller’.

And then there’s the girl. This is my imagined scenario at the meeting of the minds around this movie…

“Dudes, the chicks we have right now are: the cheating wife in a coma and the secretaries that run around and help dress our main character. We gotta think ‘audience’. We need to add a chica for the ladies to relate to and a little eye candy for the hombres. You know what I’m saying?”

“Love Interest! We can like make her his new corporate boss so the ladies will feel super empowered. And she’ll be like totally into him and like, fight to save his job, and maybe even invite him to her folks for Thanksgiving. You know, like she’s super into him but then at the end, she’s not there for him like all cold-hearted evil women. But he’s like, way better without her you know? And let’s make sure she’s blond.”

“Dude, this movie is going to rock.”

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