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Must See Movie...
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Marc Davis
This is going to be a very short review because, frankly, there isn't much to say about Wrecked. The first 20 to 30 minutes of the film consists of Adrien Brody trapped in a wrecked car deep in the forest… For the remaining 65 minutes, we get to see Brody crawling around the forest / wilderness. Throw in a hallucination here and a mountain lion there, and that's the whole film. Not too entertaining, even with the few appearances of the mountain lion – and that says a lot about the approach director Michael Greenspan took with the film. Despite Adrien being a great actor and doing his absolute best with the script, the film never really delivers on the suspense or the thrills. It's a one-man show that goes absolutely nowhere, and that's not Brody's fault. Greenspan never picks up the pace of the film; he uses flashbacks and hallucinations ineffectively; and tries to build suspense around a story-line that just doesn't have any. If you want to see a great survival film with few characters that gets it right, watch Frozen, 127 Hours with James Franco, or the classic Cast Away with Tom Hanks.
cjburton
This movie was either, totally absurd, or we are suppose to think that this character is a total idiot. Possibly the knock on the head caused some mental lapse in IQ. Obviously, a wreck of such destruction would cause some anxiety, if not brain damage and hallucinations. I collided with a stalled eighteen wheeler, while I was traveling 70 mile an hour, ending up underneath the truck, with my cars engine in the front seat with me, and it didn't seems as bad as what this fellow endured. Maybe they'll do a followup film, to find he escaped from a mental ward, and the whole thing was just a schizophrenic episode where he hallucinated everything, even the truck driver rescue. Would that be any more far fetched than what we were given to believe. It's done all the time in cinema. A whole season of the television series 'Dallas' was dreamt, to justify bringing a cast member back to life. Only, you can't bring someone back to life, who was never dead. We are expected to believe just about anything, and everything. Hollywood sometimes seems to think we are mindless beings who will watch, and believe anything they can put on the screen. This movie is one of those, a real waste a lot of time, and a bigger waste of enjoyment. It seems like they did everything they could to stretch out 90 minute, and that was too much time for this movie. I had to fast forward through much of it, and didn't miss anything. This movie might be a halfway descent 30 minute video, at best. Hollywood (fig) does produce a lot of high quality, believable film, but this definitely isn't one of them, and doesn't even come close. Do I remember some birds chirping in the movie, "cheap, cheap, cheap." Too cheap for a high price actor. Actually, the acting has merit, but the adaption sucked.
svores90
Imagine for a minute that you wake up bludgeoned, battered, bloody and bruised pinned in a steel death trap at the base of a mountain with no recollection of how or why you are there, with the only sign of humanity being an unknown corpse in the back seat. This "in medias res" beginning is how Director Michael Greenspan and Writer Christopher Dodd start off their debut feature film titled Wrecked.Wrecked is a story of a man (played by Adrian Brody) that has just awoken in the after math of a major car accident in what appears to be a ravine with only a corpse (and his deteriorating mind) to accompanying him. After a days worth of struggle Brody finally frees himself from the constraints of the wreckage only to crawl through hellacious terrain while trying to ward off haunting hallucinations that have manifested from guilt of an incident he can't even remember.Brody's performance is nothing short of spectacular especially considering the sheer screen time and lack of dialogue he has in the film, however this didn't stop him from portraying an ineffable range of emotion throughout. Brody isn't the only star on deck however, Cinematographer James Liston emphasizes this by employing juxtaposed high and low angle shot's to help shroud Brody's already enigmatic mind. The story however seem to have a couple "hiccups" that take away from the overall verisimilitude of the film which can be a deal breaker for some. This should not deter anyone from the film, it is well worth the time.
albrechtcm
Mr. Brody is a fine actor, and we always enjoy seeing him in action. His name was the main reason we decided to watch this disappointing film. We realize that actors look forward to, and relish a role that allows them the opportunity to cut loose and gnash their teeth and in this film, Mr. Brody does a lot of tooth gnashing. He wakes up trapped in a wrecked car in a forest. Obviously he has no idea where he is and he is in great pain. Eventually he realizes that two dead men occupy the rear seat, and there is no driver. In one of the few lines in the film, he speaks, indicating that he doesn't know who he is. This is almost another "The Jacket", but "The Jacket" had a point. Writhing with this man (we never know his name and neither does he),for an hour and half of suffering and fevered hallucinations proved to be too excruciating (for us). We had to keep hitting the fast forward button, hoping for something to happen. From the disc cover we had the impression that he awakes to find not only guns but money. Since the driver was not in the wrecked vehicle, we expected him to return, perhaps with henchmen, to reclaim the money and create some mayhem, but unfortunately nothing like that ever happens. In fact nothing at all happens save for a few brief hallucinations that contribute nothing to this tale, until finally, only at the very last minute — in a hopelessly contrived scene of recovering memory — we get the barest glimpse of who this man may have been and how he got into this sorry situation; the end. Like the punch line at the end of a long bad joke, this leaves you with your mouth open, saying: "And...you mean that's it?"
