Both actors play a convincing cat - and - mouse game, with Franco offering a riveting courtroom testimony as the script transitions into more of a low -
key legal thriller about redemption for each man.
Despite outward appearances, Fracture isn't quite the fast - paced
legal thriller that one might have expected from the film's promotional materials (there is, in fact, only one courtroom sequence of any real significance); screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Glenn Gers have instead crafted a story that generally has the feel of a low -
key drama - with Gosling's character ultimately forced to choose between his ambition and his morals.