Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Fracture
2007
**½
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton

The L.A. Deputy District Attorney is assigned to prosecute an elderly man who shot his promiscuous wife. The case seems like a formality, but the suspect is about to teach the cocky young lawyer a lesson in humility. The ensuing psychological duel between these two intelligent men is slick and entertaining, but apart from the A-list cast, this crime drama offers nothing you don't see in a TV procedural on a weekly basis. Which is why the film is way too long at nearly two hours. In the B story, the DDA beds his boss before he has even started in his new lucrative job in corporate law. This entire subplot is needless and implausible.