Fracture (2007) – Rewatch, I think

It is hard to know if I’d previously seen this film or not, though I’m pretty sure I have. It is one in a series of films with an über intelligent Anthony Hopkins matching wits with a potentially worthy foe. Sir Anthony plays an engineer who shoots his unfaithful wife, certain he will get away with it; Ryan Gosling, with a nonsensical Southern accent, is the young upstart district attorney who is assigned to the case. Aside from finagling himself into job at a high profile firm, there is little sense that Gosling is up to this mental challenge. The slapdash finale supports that conclusion.