Sam Worthington searches for his family in a familiarly plotted yet mostly effective mystery from The Machinist director Brad Anderson
There’s a queasy sense of foreboding attached to the nervy
Netflix thriller Fractured, partly because we know something sinister is afoot but mostly because we have been here before and we have a good idea of where we are headed. The film, from reliable genre tradesman Brad Anderson, recalls a great number of thrillers, from The Lady Vanishes to Flight Plan to Unknown to Shutter Island to Dream House, and at times it buckles under this comparative weight, a Frankenwork struggling to justify the reasons why it was stitched together in the first place.
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