A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
The casting directors of Fragments deserve credit for assembling so much talent in one modest movie; if only Rowan Woods, the director, knew what to do with them.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
31 Jul 2009
rotten:
Fragments is both deeply self-serious and essentially meaningless, the sort of we're-all-connected tragedy in which birds fly free while humans remain stuck in place.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
31 Jul 2009
rotten:
The grand statement it wants to make plays shallow instead of deep, leaving the film too weak-kneed to carry the weight of its broken world.
– Betsy Sharkey,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Aug 2009
fresh:
[A] well acted ensemble piece that I think you should see.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
10 Aug 2009
rotten:
The film is quite literally fragmented. Too much story -- and too little about each character.