Fracture (2007)

Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), an aeronautical engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. Hilarity ensues when he signs a confession and then at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Until it is discovered that Crawford's gun has never been fired. Crawford treats it as a game between him and Beachum. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Trivia: This is the first New Line Cinema/Castle Rock Entertainment collaboration since the mid-90s before both companies were bought by Ted Turner.

Ho Hum. You know you're in for a long movie when you figure out how the bad guy did it two seconds after he did it instead of 2 hours later when the movie ends. Anthony Hopkins pretty much sleepwalks through this one depending on a stereotypical Hannibal Lechter character. He won the Oscar for playing Hannibal Lechter and seems to stuck in the character. Ryan Gosling did well as the too cocky for his own good ADA with other aspirations who eventually is knocked down and has a chance to regain his status at the expensive of truth but decides to take the high road and eventually is rewarded for it, but that was also a pretty stereotypical character. Ho Hum.