Seemingly set up for a breakout with the record-setting success of Avatar, Sam Worthington hasn’t done so well as the rest of the burly Australian dude wave—be it any of the Hemsworths, Joel Edgerton, or even Jai Courtney. And his luck doesn’t look be turning with his latest misguided vehicle, Fractured.
Worthington stars as Ray Monroe, a man with an implacable American accent driving his wife and daughter cross-country to another place, presumably different from whatever could be the original place where people talk like Ray Monroe.
En route, at a rest stop, Ray’s daughter falls off a small overhang and breaks her arm. Ray and wife Joanne (Lily Rabe) take her to the nearest hospital, where, probably to drive up some insurance money, Dr. Stephen Tobolowsky asks for a CAT scan. The ever-concerned Ray passes out in the waiting room during it, awakening to find his family gone without a trace or hospital record.
Now, certainly there would be a trace of his family on the internet, or in the testimonies of friends and family, or on his phone, or in his home, or in hundreds of other places that couldn’t be scrubbed within a couple hours. But for the purposes of this film, it’s VERY excited to consider whether this is a massive, inexplicable conspiracy or that—far more likely—we end up learning that Ray killed his own family in his home (or something like that) and this is all some idiotic fantasy we have to spend 100 minutes with.
But if you for some reason care about how that convoluted mystery resolves itself, you can find out when Fractured hits Netflix October 11.
