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Case Sensitive (2011)
If you like convoluted plots and difficulty spotting the villain, this one's for you.
No spoilers.
This one is for those who like try to outsmart the cops. If you like complications and trying understand the plot days later... try this one. Most convoluted plot since "Blood Simple" and "Memento"
Fracture (2007)
Swiss Cheese Plot
Good acting, plot not so much.
I love a well made thriller with a convoluted plot. But the plot has to be plausible. And to believe that a meticulous person like Crawford (Hopkins) would commit a murder on the assumption that his wife's lover would be the first cop to show up, be the first guy through the door, be the only cop through the door, assume the cop would be willing to lay down his weapon at some point and assume he would have an opportunity to switch weapons is simply not a believable sequence. Such a person would not risk life in prison or worse, on such an unlikely string of events. He'd develop another plan that had a higher likelihood of success.
And either the movie makers didn't consult a competent attorney or they chose to ignore his advice. Crawford was found not guilty of the act of attempted murder. That act cannot be revisited even if she dies later on. But that aside, Crawfords actions of removing his vegetated wife from life support isn't a crime. Therefore he would never have landed back in court in any case.
Sloppy, Sloppy, Sloppy