Adrien Brody (The Pianist) takes an adventurous turn in the brutal, minimalist indie thriller Wrecked. Brody’s character wakes up trapped in a mangled car at the bottom of a wooded slope in the middle of nowhere – and there’s a corpse in the back seat. Worse, due to shock-induced amnesia, he doesn’t remember who he is or how he got there – but the evidence points to a deadly crime. With this barebones scenario established, the film proceeds in increments, with every drop of water consumed, every inch moved a painful ordeal. It’s grimly fascinating to observe this lost soul as he struggles for identity – and for survival. –Abu Dhabi Film Festival
A movie about the wrong kind of off-roading. Adrien Brody does a respectable job carrying the movie, but carry it he must as the story runs out before the film does. Would probably have made an excellent short film cut to somewhere between 40 and 60 minutes. Even at its full running time, though, it's not unrewarding.
the mint-scene was just the best... not bad movie/story, but sadly it didn't catch me the whole time - the story was kind of thrown together..!
WRECKED begins not with a bang, but with the slow, fuzzy return of consciousness to Adrien Brody’s unnamed protagonist, who awakes to find himself battered and bloodied in the passenger seat of a mangled… read review
