It ended up making a respectable-but-not-outstanding $92 million worldwide and received a not-terrible-but-still-pretty-lukewarm reception from critics and moviegoers.
In other words, it may not have been the star-making vehicle he imagined it to be in the first place.
It’s understandable why he would have been bummed at the time, but everything obviously worked out okay for Chris Evans in the end — and truth be told, Fracture probably wouldn’t have been the career-making movie he may have thought at the time, anyway.