fracture be a solid but flawed courtroom drama or thriller that offer terrific acting and a compelling story and but it also suffer from typical hollywood izing that undermine the end to the point of complete incredulity . spoilers the filmmaker and who up until the last act have fashion a terrific cat and mouse game between hopkins and gosling and take the easy way out and turn hopkins from a clever genius into a bumbling fool . when gosling bos ( aka his conscience ) tell him and if it make you feel any good you let a man get away with attempted murder and i ( along with many others i be sure ) know how the movie would end . but it be not true to hopkins brilliant character that he too would have think of this major loophole . a man who ingeniously construct such an intricately plotted way to get away with the crime doesn not think about the fact that he can be try again . not buy it . i spend a lot of time criticize this one fatal flaw and but overall i be still give the movie a 7 and because the rest of it ( with the exception of the tepid romantic subplot ) be so good and so effective . i just wish the filmmaker would have deliver an edgier end and not stick with the hollywood conventional wrap up .