remember the fractured fairy tale from the bullwinkle show . well and if you do and linger on that thought for a few moment and you will garner far more pleasure than if you drive to the megaplex and watch the new incarnation of hannibal lecter and aeronautical engineer and take on one of the new kidz and ryan gosling and do his twitchy diane keatonish imitation of steve mcqueen a bullitt and but without the action . in fact and the movie be devoid of any action at all that isn not not only predictable and but juvenile . this movie never reach above the weekly reader level in term of plot and characterization and motivation or device . five minute into the movie and i know the big secret . ten minute in and i know this be go to be a long slow ride with no bump or fresh air . it a flaccid copy of jagged edge and but without the jagged edge . it the postman ring once and then walk away . even the big visual motif of the roll ball machine be never explore satisfactorily . we see a sidelong image of a ramp and then part of a wheel and but never get to see the ball do anything worth watch . kind of like a goldberg machine construct by rube untalented brother fredo . the backstories of hannibal and diane be inane and tire at best . hopkins play an engineer whose wife be carry on with a cop in such a manner to facilitate his revenge fantasy . in fact and the very basis of this fantasy be fantastic and and i do not mean that in the good sense . it beyond belief . so many coincidental state of be be pile into a heap at the beginning of this fifth grade write exercise that one more would cause the entire mess to break through to the basement where the nursery school kid be study grimm . example one represent the cop be a hostage negotiator assign to the district where hopkins life . example two represent the wife and cop do not know each other last name . example three represent the cop leave his gun lie around when he play with the wife . gosling be conveniently try to leave the prosecutor office and join a corporate law firm and which add bulk to the movie a pulp be add to orange juice . it suppose to be good for you and but isn not really very pleasant . the loose plot thread this allow to be pick up be so nebulous that the cloth be in danger of rip through at the slight pressure like flimsy truck stop toilet paper and give the film goer a nasty case of brownfinger . facilitate the plot mangle be such miserable device a these represent when the wife be shoot in the face with a glock . 45 and she doesn not die while the homicide detective and gosling happen to use the same model cell phone ( which trigger the lame eureka moment in the history of cinema ) while gosling spill coffee on his suit right after his tux be deliver for the party he suddenly invite to that happen to be at the disney center and this all allow hopkins to suddenly divine gosling point of fracture and from which the movie take it name ( and make no sense ) and like the tell scene in rounder and casino royale while and finally hopkins and devilishly clever and brutal and happen to need to talk a lot for some reason . i could go on and on and take perverse pleasure from diss this awful movie with great production value and but that would allow it to take up too much of my time and and it do enough of that already in the mere watching . i think grindhouse be a hoot but not worth another attendance and be a concatenation of two lousy movie in an amusing fashion and but i would rather sit through three hour of that movie a second time than watch this one for the first . i will end on this note fracture would be a modest movie of the week on television if this be still the 80 . it could be an episode of murder and she write . it could star raymond burr and be popular among old viewer . but it can not be a good movie in 2007. why it be so well review be not really a mystery to me and just a disappointment . even the hill street cameo in fracture be pointless and unsatisfying . the best part of the experience be watch the trailer for the remake of hairspray with john travolta take divine role a edna turnblad and and michelle pfeiffer a velma von tussle . now that go to be a movie worth watch .