Fractured

The dark tone, the music, lend to the main character's detective-like quest to recall his past. Others that reviewed the movie positively provide considerably more detail than I am willing to offer. For me, Fractured falls into the category where knowing much about it prior to seeing it lessens the intrigue, hurting the overall experience. Hollywood is increasingly more prone to do sequels and originality suffers. Layer onto that how special effects are becoming quite overly used as a way to boost ticket sales, which I am not a fan, and it amounts to so much of the same. Character-driven plots seldom tally big box office. There are exceptions. Fractured may be one of those but only over the course of time, should word-of-mouth be the catalyst.

Vinnie Jones proves to be a very effective villain. The movie's most appealing aspects include how all of us are a mix of good and evil. I found it haunting in the regard that it had me questioning certain parts of my life that I certainly regret. That said, the movie is too hard core for theaters and should be avoided if you have an aversion to nudity, gore, violence and/or the subjugation of women. However, there are some very memorable scenes. I especially like the bar scene where the Callum Blue character meets a woman you'd probably not be bringing home to mom.

The cinematography was decent but the writing and/or directing was weak. The plot devices felt obvious and predictable. The situations in the story seemed contrived and I had a hard time believing that the characters had motivation to warrant their actions/reactions to events - giving many of the dramatic scenes an unintended comic effect. I almost never stop watching a movie I've invested more than 30 minutes in, so I watched until the end yet I felt my time could have been better spent.

Why does the movie poster feature a relatively minor character? Is it because the lead actor is not as well known? The actor featured in the ad is somewhat recognizable even though he has a relatively small part. That seems misleading and unfair. I was actually quite impressed with the lead's performance - especially considering that some of his dialogue was, in my opinion, very poorly written, and probably a challenge to deliver. Other performances in the movie were unremarkable.

This isn't an easy movie to watch for a few reasons. It do offer gore in it's extremest way and it offers a story that you will have some questions to be answered after wards. The strangeness of the script reminded me a bit of Lost Highway (1997), maybe the score used in Fractured add to that feeling?

When a guy wakes up from a coma he just doesn't know who he is. Therefor he has to search into his mind and past to see who and what he was. It isn't going to be a funny ride. As I wrote earlier it do involves a few extreme gory shots, let's say the scalping is the hardest to take. And when I say that Fred Vogel was responsible for the effects then you know enough, Fred is know for the Mordum Underground flicks.

There's also a lot of nudity to catch even as it isn't that gratuitous as we thought. it's done by Ashlynn Yennie who we knew from the Human Centipede part 1 & 2. She goes all the way full frontal. Vinnie Jones is also to catch and as always he's playing the tough guy.

I do like film noire or flicks you can't understand and I surely would file this under that genre but with a gory aftertaste. Can't say it's straight horror, some parts are, and it surely isn't going to be for everyone but it's worth picking up.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

I went into this,film with 0 expectations and I'm so glad I watched it. It's dark (in more ways than one), creepy, it keeps you on your toes and has the perfect amount of gore to up the cringe factor. The acting, writing and directing was not disappointing. It was a very pleasant surprise. I would definitely recommend this film especially, if you enjoyed films like Memento, Devils Advocate and Angel Heart. The story line is in the same ballpark of those 3 films but, definitely not a copy.

Fractured is a psychological horror movie directed by Adam Gierasch and stars Callum Blue, Vinnie Jones and Ashlynn Yennie.

This movie should be taught as a lesson on how to spoil a good script with bad writing and poor character development, this movie isn't spoiled by these two factors but also by some poor screenplay and some bad acting.

As mentioned earlier the plot of the movie is nice and had good scope to transform the movie into a great psychological horror movie but is ruined by over ambitious director who I think couldn't handle such plot.

The acting department also disappoints. Callum Blue looked lost throughout the movie. Vinnie Jones was impressive but couldn't get much screen space. Ashlynn was kept only to add some eroticism to the dead movie.

Screenplay of the movie is boring and couldn't hold the script for Long some of the scenes were there without any purpose and couldn't be omitted on the editing table. Climax is senseless and bad. Cinematography is also bad.

Although this movie is psychological horror by it's genre but for me it's a big disappointment, please avoid the movie.