Wrecked
Starring: Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins
Director: Michael Greenspan
Rating: 3/5
A Man (Brody) awakens in a mangled car-wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff.
He’s injured, his legs are trapped, and he has no memory of who he is or how he got there.
His only company - a crackling radio broadcast of a violent bank robbery gone wrong and a corpse in the back seat with a wallet identifying him as one of the perpetrators.
As the man ventures beyond the wreckage, he must rely on his primal instincts, using anything he can find in the surrounding wilderness to increase his chances of survival.
Confronted with overwhelming obstacles, both real and imagined, the Man must discover his identity and face the consequences of what that might be.
If you need an actor to hold a movie pretty much by himself and take his character through every emotion that Oscar winner Adrien Brody really is your man.
For the majority of the movie Brody is the only character in the story and he holds his own, and the attention of the audience well.
The opening forty minutes as Brody's character struggles to remember what happened, who he is and where he is are truly gripping.
The audience is left wondering is he the villain or someone in the wrong place at the wrong time? And you are left in a quandary of whether to have sympathy for the injured man that you see in front of you.
Unfortunately that intensity does slowly die away as the movie continues and Brody fights to survive - sadly it is not as gripping a story as Buried or 127 Hours; both of which are a long the same vein.
This is a first feature for director Michael Greenspan and, to be honest, he has made a decent stab at it.
It's credit to Brody for being able to hold this movie but it's also credit to the filmmaker to tackle a very restrictive story.
Sadly the movie isn't as compelling by the end as it was at the start but it's decent thriller that will entertain.
Wrecked is out on DVD & Blu-Ray now
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw