Way back in 2005 Jodie Foster was in a thriller called Flightplan. The movie was about a mother who gets on a plane with her daughter but her daughter goes missing. She starts freaking out about her missing daughter and everyone thinks she’s crazy. Fast forward 14 years later and Sam Worthington is in a movie called Fractured, where he brings his family to a hospital, but then they go missing and he starts freaking out while everything thinks he’s crazy.

The big difference between both films is that in Flightplan it was about a mother looking for missing daughter, and in Fractured it’s about a father looking for his missing wife and daughter.

The trailer for the film starts simple enough. Sam and his wife bring their daughter to the hospital to get her checked out after she has a fall.

They show brief flashbacks of the incident.

The doctor suggests taking the daughter to get a CAT scan. They never come back.

Sam begins to panic and ask about what’s going on and where his family is, but everyone plays coy, saying that they never saw his wife or child to being with, leading him down a pathway of mania.

The film appears to be operating on two concepts: The first is that his wife and daughter actually were already dead before he got to the hospital, and that he’s having a severe bout of hallucinogenic trauma preventing him from letting go. The second is that there’s something fishy going on and his wife and daughter are actually being held captive by the hospital staff, not unlike what happened in the movie Breakdown where the truckers were trafficking women they picked up along the road.

The comment section for the film is filled with theories and discussion about what’s really going on, and whether the twist is as conspicuous as the trailer makes it seem, or if the opposite is true and there’s
latent conspiracy afoot to kidnap women and children at the hospital.

I must admit, I did get intrigued by the trailer. It’s well put together and it definitely makes you think that the character has potentially gone crazy, but then they wheel you back in the other direction and fill your head with ideas about it all being one big trafficking conspiracy.

I’m not entirely sure, and I suppose that’s where the interest in the film lay tucked beneath the doubting queries.

Of course, I should very clearly remind you that this is a Netflix film. And we all know the rule about Netflix… right?