Fractured 2019

Finding his family means facing the truth.

6.716 / 10   2362 vote(s)
R
Thriller

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

Homepage https://www.netflix.com/title/80223997
Release Date 2019-09-22
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors Brad Anderson, Peter Mabrucco, Björn Charpentier, Adam Druxman, Bryan R. Burns, Puneet Chawla, David Franceschetti
Producers Neal Edelstein, Paul Schiff, Mike Macari, Billy Higgins, Billy Higgins, Ian Dimerman, Catherine Farrell, Margaret Lewis, Chris LeDoux, Jessica Jacobs, Cindy Rago
Writer Alan B. McElroy

After an accident, Ray, played by Sam Worthington, has to take his daughter to the hospital. But something funny is going on at the hospital, which comes to a head with they take his wife and daughter for tests and she doesn’t return. Not only does she not return, but the hospital has no record of his wife or daughter ever having been there. He must now rescue his family from an organ harvesting operation being run out of the hospital.

OR DOES HE??? dramatic music plays

There are questions about whether he’s really perceiving things as they are while the hospital staff attempts to gaslight him and make him believe that he’s for all intents and purposes crazy.

OR IS HE??? dramatic music plays

Okay, I have to add these dramatic bits to this review because they’re more dramatic than the actual movie. It’s pretty obvious rather quickly what’s going on. Part of the problem may be the short runtime combined with a kind of lengthy setup. The setup seems to be designed to convey the sense of waiting long times in the hospital ER waiting room (...ah hah hah social commentary…) But this lengthy first act cuts into the time that could be used to build mystery and tension. As it is, it almost seems like a long “Twilight Zone” episode.

If you want an “Are they crazy or not?” film that’s much better, check out “Flightplan” with Jodie Foster. But “Fractured” is a generally poor take on the genre and I can only recommend it if you really have nothing else to watch or do.

Sheldon Nylander

When a movie holds a mystery, that's great, but when a movie just straight-up lies to you, that's crap. Fractured is the latter.

Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible.

Gimly