Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

northpolegenius I just saw this movie tonight, The acting was outstanding. Rosamind Pike is beautiful.Some parts of the plot were absolutely brilliant. Other parts, not so much.First, you are led to believe that double jeopardy applied to "attempted murder" and attempted murder only. Since the wife was taken off life support, Willy said the charge is now murder and the double jeopardy doesn't apply.The problem here is twofold. First, if there was a living will, the husband legally executed his duty. Second, with or without a living will, it was the doctors and hospital staff that did the plug pulling not the husband. The double jeopardy still applied.The second mistake is huge and seemingly overlooked. Nunnaly had the shells swapped by his friend in the evidence room before he taped the bogus gun to a lawn mower blade the night before the trial reconvened.Willy said he had the bullet from the head of the wife after she died.. Guess what? Since the shells were switched. that shell wouldn't match in a ballistic test. And even further, the shells in the evidence room won't match the bullet from the Nunnaly suicide. Those bullets will only match the gun taped to the lawn mower blade.

Russ Hog WTH? One of these movies made for business: To make an older movie star share screen time with a young talent in order to legitimize the younger star for audiences. Anthony Hopkins plays a man who kills his wife and sorta defends himself at trial against a young prosecutor who needs to be humbled before ehe can be great. Horrible. Not much courtroom scenes for a courtroom movie, and the reversals all through the film are a disgrace. Why did I watch this awful movie? SMH.

n-36148 On the whole Fracture feels very...okay - I didn't really enjoy it, but equally it has some interesting characters and dialogue to lift it above the realms of being thoroughly average. Worth a watch if you have plenty of time on your hands.

dierregi Finally a courtroom drama-psychological thriller with some substance. Hopkins is Ted Crawford, a malevolent, clever guy who prefers homicide to divorce. Gosling is Willy Beachum, a smug young lawyer on his way to a bright career in the private sector who ends up playing a cat and mouse game he could do without.Crawford shots his wife Jennifer, because she has an affair with Lt. Nunally, and Homicide cop and then sets a crazy plan in motion. Jennifer ends up in a coma and the distraught Nunally sort of looses it.I am not a Gosling fan, but contrary to most other reviewers I found his character strangely endearing. Maybe because of his integrity, a quality so rarely seen in modern day movies' characters. Willy' s smugness is mitigated by his determinationWilly sees Jennifer as a victim, not as somebody who "had it coming" and visits her at the hospital, hoping for a miracle recovery.What I found disturbing are the comments about Crawford deserving to get away with murder because he is clever. Some people must still have a hard on for Hannibal Lecter or think that a woman deserves to die if she is unfaithful - which is worrying.There are a few plot holes, the biggest being the affair between Jennifer and Nunally. In fact, the whole movie stands on the premise that Nunally is blissfully ignorant about Jennifer's identity. I found it weird that a Homicide cop did not try to find out who is lover was. It is very unlikely cop behavior, since she could have been linked to terrorism or crime and cops like to investigate.Anyway, the pace is fast but not frantic, with some luscious settings that do not hurt the eye and witty dialogues. My favorite quote:"Maybe I can find some new evidence by tomorrow" "Where? Are you going to buy it at the evidence store?"