Fracture (DVD)

If you love the smart and intelligent Grisham movies that have a neat little twist to tie it all up like a bow on a present at the end then you will enjoy this, as did I, unless, of course, you're tired of Sir Anthony Hopkins vast array of silly ascents, here the Welsh/Irish/Scottish brogue getting another run out. Buts its not humble 'Tony Hopkins' on display here, but the predictable super clever version that always seems to end up behind bars to dictate things on screen, as seen in Instinct, the two extremely over-rated Silence of the Lambs movies, and many others. Yes, he is very good at it but I much prefer the Merchant & Ivory version who plays those ...

When Ted Crawford, a wealthy engineer, finds that his much younger wife is having an affair, he has a rather severe reaction - he murders her, having carefully planned it to ensure that he will not be convicted of her murder. He then confesses to her murder and decides to represent himself in court, where he finds himself up against a career lawyer, Willie Beachum. Beachum thinks that the case is an open and shut one and that it will help him up the next step of the career lawyer. Unfortunately for him, Crawford is a shrewd man who can see into the depths of his soul and before Beachum knows what has hit him, the case falls down around his ears. Can Beachum find a way of ...

Ever since Silence of The Lambs Anthony Hopkins has pretty much cornered the market in creepy, intellectual men of dubious morals. In Fracture he does the same again, Ted Crawford is a very clever man and we are immediately introduced to this fact when we see him solve the mystery of how a plane crashed in seconds, while other investigators all stand around examining the wreckage spread out in a hangar. Next thing we know he has just cold bloodedly shot his wife in the head and is calmly waiting for the Police to arrive and arrest him. Seemingly caught bang to rights he is not only incredibly calm but insists on defending himself. Is he in his right mind or ...