this movie doesn not work on several level . spoiler to follow . if you haven not see fracture and do not read this review . and spoiler for ocean eleven to follow and come to think of it . so if you haven not see that movie and do not read this review . but back to fracture represent here we have a brilliant man who have think of everything to get away with murder . let believe that he actually can see the weak point in everything and everybody . let believe that he predict what seem like random behavior and coincidence . let believe that he be lucky and even the unpredictable factor play to his advantage . why would he miss the obvious hole in his plan . it just doesn not make sense . either he infallible and then he would have wipe his fingerprint off the bullet in nunally gun and he would have let his wife live . or he not and his whole plan wouldn not have go as far a it do in the first place . but have him set up a the man who could beat the devil himself in a chess game only to let him stumble over such a stupid detail . that just sloppy screen write . on another level and the casting work against the movie . anthony hopkins play the role with diabolical delight . he be by far the most charismatic actor in the whole film and and his character be the most intelligent person as well . and in let the victim have an affair with the unlikable lieutenant and the audience have a hard time not to identify with hopkins . in a way and the film make it seem like he deserve to get away with murder . especially in contrast to the arrogant young lawyer and a cocky young a hole that would sell his own mother to get that high pay job at a soulless law firm . now nothing against ryan gosling and i think you need a lot of talent to intentionally be that unlikable . but it should be consistent . the film do not need a saulus to paulus change . beachum have his chance to come out a the winner ( actually and he have that chance twice ) and but he blow it out of arrogance . let him win kind of defeat the purpose . the first 80 minute be a wonderful film . the arrogant young lawyer lose his job and the betrayed husband get away with murder thanks to his superior intelligence . and he should . but then the film continue . and the whole thing fall apart . imagine ocean eleven if george clooney and his gang get catch in the end . it just wouldn not work . and neither do fracture .