By Katherine Ramsland
If you look closely, everything has a flaw — a fault line or fracture - that weakens it. Fatal flaws arise in most good stories and New Line's "Fracture," directed by Gregory Hoblit, is no exception. In fact, such flaws provide the film's overt and covert themes, and watching how they intertwine provides its aggressive momentum. The fracture is the place where the world's solidity dissolves and things stop making conventional sense. Characters who think they're safe are the most vulnerable.
Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a successful aeronautics engineer, shoots his wife (Embeth Davidtz) for cheating on him with a hostage negotiator (Billy Burke). He's watched them and planned his response the way he's designed his machines — including the fact that the wound he inflicts is not immediately fatal.
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| Embeth Davidtz & Anthony Hopkins |
Once Crawford is arrested for attempted murder, we learn just how meticulously this evil genius has contrived the incident from facts about ballistics, the court system, and people in love. From all appearances, he's designed the perfect crime, including his glib act as a bumbling defendant representing himself. He wants the investigators to underestimate him. He even offers a signed confession, prepared to undermine it, and exploits their belief that the case is open-and-shut.
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