Rating of
3/4
Clever Cat and Mouse!
MovieAddict - wrote on 02/04/12
Anthony Hopkins play a meticulous structural engineer named Ted Crawford who designs and builds elaborate contraptions in his spare time. He shoots his cheating spouse Jennifer when he discovers that she is having an affair with a police detective confessing to the cops he did it and awaits his trial with an unnatural calming demeanor. The rest of the story - and excitement - is about his devilishly clever scheme to get away with it.
Enter Assistant District Attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) who believes he has a slam-dunk case and agrees to go to trial. What Beachum thought was a perfectly simple case ends up being a battle of wits and a psychological fight that takes him to his breaking point in his attempt to put the cool and calculating intellectual behind bars. Ryan Gosling presented a convincing performance as the arrogant and ambitious hot shot attorney who learns the lesson "Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall".
Sure, this kind of movie has been done before, but rarely this well. Pay close attention to the events leading up to the shooting: you will still not figure out the whole scheme, but may stay ahead of the district attorney.
