Whilst Anthony Hopkins sleepwalks through this movie, it’s not a bad plot at all and Ryan Gosling impresses
This is pretty much a by-the-numbers thriller but well acted and with a few decent scenes. Anthony Hopkins discovers his wife is cheating on him. He shoots her and waits for police to arrive. Arresting officer is his wife’s lover. Turn’s out wife is not dead, just critically injured. Ryan Gosling plays a public prosecuter with a 97% success rate who is just about to move to a private legal firm but is convinced to handle this case since it is open and shut given that Hopkins character has signed a confession and is defending himself in court. Turns out Hopkins is a cunning old sod and seems impossible to pin down. Gosling finds himself disappearing down a black hole and his job in the new firm (where he’ll be working for his girlfriend) seems to be disappearing too. Open-and-shut becomes a race to find evidence. Since it is a twist-based movie, I won’t ruin the end. It isn’t a classic by any means and Hopkins has played this role a thousand times but enjoyable all the same.
Rated /5 on Sep 23 2007 by Conor O’Neill
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