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I watched this and persisted with it based on the reviews, but it's really poor.

It reminded me of a film made as part of a school/university project. The screenplay was poor, the acting wasn't particularly good and the story had far too many flaws.

The 'twist' is just unbelievable based on the first half of the film. The main actress is a complete wet lettuce in the first half and scared of her own shadow, completely at odds with the truth. I'm also not sure on the plausibility of a scared victim deciding to hunt down their attackers to brutally murder, rather than calling for medical help/the police.

That's before you even consider the likeliness of surviving two hammer blows to the head or somehow running after a car (despite severely injured with no shoes) for a number of miles.

If you have an hour and half to spare and consider watching this, I'd recommend that you don't and go and cut the grass with scissors instead.

...the Swede IS stupid. And so was this movie!

We're honestly supposed to believe that Freyr would turn his back in this situation? And who wrote this mess? Apparently someone who has never been hit in the head before. No one could have done what Alva did under these circumstances. There is no concept of "time" with a serious head injury only confusion. But we're supposed to believe she's hit in the head with a hammer - twice - by killers who believed she was dead? Furthermore, open up someone's head and there's blood everywhere - paint cans full. She not only gets up unfazed with a mere dab but simultaneously strategizes while morphing into an Olympic athlete.

But wait - it gets worse.

She gets to a petrol station but instead of calling for help steals a car so she can follow her attackers. Never even a fleeting thought to get back to Freyr or remove herself from danger. Nope. She gets to the house and is able to hide in the shadows, sit on the couch to look at pictures, and put her stolen boots back on before taking out the criminals single-handedly? C'mon Man! If she's this cunning and powerful, how'd she get hit in the head in the first place?

This movie actually won an award? For what?

This film was pretty rubbish. The plot was weak, the characters were flawed. Half way through the film it went back to the beginning which didn't make sense at all.

It did amaze me that the serial killers ended up being complete wet lettuces and got killed by their victim.

I'd never heard of Fractured till I stumbled across it on Amazon Prime, and it's no surprise considering it's very low budget with very few actors and seemed to have gone under the radar completely. It clocks in at less than 80 minutes, one of the shortest films I've seen, and progresses in reverse timescale, thus separating it from some other, very similar films. The two main characters are set up as a fairly bland, friendly couple who are given no backstory or development particularly (we'll get to that later) but just kind of exist, standard horror characters on a deserted piece of road. Set over the course of one night, Michael and Becca drive through an isolated bit of countryside, encountering an odd petrol station worker, who Becca then believes to be following them, eventually arriving at a house which is hinted not to belong to them, but it's not made clear why they're there. The first half of the film passes by feeling easily watchable but somewhat pointless and essentially totally uneventful. Something's not right, clearly being watched, but they behave suspiciously nonchalant about that, which I first assumed to simply be some poor acting. Out of the blue, with no real reason, they are suddenly attacked and Michael is found stabbed to death. Flash back to several hours earlier, and they're hitching a lift from Alva and her non-English-speaking boyfriend, again another ordinary couple. They're suddenly revealed to be high-profile serial killers, who murder Alva's boyfriend and leave her for dead, stealing their car and also killing the petrol station worker along the way (who is revealed to in fact be terrified after identifying the couple from a news report about them). With events having passed in non-chronological order, Alva who is still alive follows the couple back to the house, which actually belongs to her, stabs Michael to death as shown before and inflicts the same fate upon Becca for killing her boyfriend. That's literally it. I'll give Fractured praise for doing things slightly differently to other revenge horror films like I Spit On Your Grave etc, but remove the non-chronological timescale and it is basically just that, the same film that's been made many times already with a very simple plot that will be enough to just about satisfy many horror fans. For a nighttime viewing it's decent enough if you've got nothing else you want to watch, and won't take a chunk out of anyone's life as it's over very quickly in under 80 minutes. The story probably could have been wrapped up in less than an hour given how simple it is, but fans of this type of film will read the description and know it's probably going to satisfy them for the running time. There's far better, similar films of this genre out there (In Fear, The Rental etc) but it's good enough to entertain if it's what you're into. Not bad.