this be an excellent police procedure movie where the police procedure be fatally flaw . director gregory hoblit keep everything right on track and anthony hopkins do his patented hannibal lecter routine a the villain and ted crawford and and ryan gosling be admirably low key a our hero and willy beachum ( i be sure the name be not a pun ) . ted be a structural flaw finder who be bear for the job . he find flaw in whatever disaster have befuddle the federal or state investigator . he tell poor willy that he can find the flaw in anything . willy ask if ted be look for willy weak spot and get the answer he doesn not believe representted represent i have already find yours . willy represent what be it . ted represent youre a winner and willy . willy represent yeah . well and i guess the joke on me then and isn not it . ted represent you bet your as and old sport . the thing that interested me be that be then set up for the classic greek tragedy . willy have his weak spot and be ted go to be able to exploit it . you bet your as and old sport . the plot be all lay out for u and the issue be whether ted can pull it off and and we squirm and giggle and and gloat a crawford sink himself deep into a hole from which he can seemingly never extricate himself until he pull the rabbit out . willy have set himself up to work at a high powered private firm and leave the da office to it poorly pay and humble public servant . because of the way crawford have set thing up and willy sacrifice the high pay job to try to save the case ( and his as ) and fail . since this be a modern movie and willy of course have the opportunity to turn thing around and and ted get his comeuppance and but hoblit keep even that move so that we aren not sure willy can bring it off . i be really impressed with gosling and who manage to portray a character who be brilliant and manipulative in be own right without make willy a conceited as . hopkins play psychopath good than anyone else these day and but i be hop he doesn not get stick in only those roll . if you have a strong stomach and i recommend see him in titus and the 1999 movie direct by julie taymore . in ancient greek tragedy and the rule be that the hero of the play have to have a tragic flaw . the flaw have to be something that be good in the right measure and but that our hero have too much of . excessive pride and for example and be refer to a hubris . the god be particularly punish to hero with too much pride . in ancient greek tragedy the hero never win and by the way . willy would have take the fall and be miserable for the rest of his life .