Undescribable Perfection

That was an excellent one.

Just perfect...

The acting in this movie is really good.

So, they are driving for like 12 hours straight, enough for the sun to go down and come back up again. And be midday. I don't know about anyone else, but I have to pee at least every 2 hours. Do you think they took their pee breaks together? Anyway, this was an awful movie. There were obviously other cars on the road and houses / city lights at many points in the movie. No place other than maybe Alaska would be this remote to drive for hours on end with no human life. A complete waste of my time and I don't often feel that way. I always try to find the good in movies.

Have an appreciation for thrillers/horrors and no matter how derivative it looked and sounded there was something about 'Wrecker's' idea that sparked some interest. Also curiosity as to whether it was as bad as has been said, as part of my viewing of low-budget films every now and then for curiosity's sake. After seeing 'Wrecker', do have to agree that it is that bad. And that it is cheaply derivative of superior films (i.e. 'Duel') is actually the least of its problems. It doesn't even have a promising opening scene, nothing unsettling or suspenseful and bordering on the silly, atmospheric set design (the rest of the production values are just too amateurish to make me remotely appreciate it) or a watchable actor in a small role trying to do something with it to make things better. 'Wrecker's' least bad asset is the truck. Even that can't be properly considered a redeeming quality when its scenes that it featured in are so tension-free and ridiculous and when the film looks as slipshod as it does. Like a few low budget films seen recently, everything about the story execution feels stale and incredibly dull. Even worse is that it's often confused and then it's too obvious to be surprising or unsettling, too dull to be tense or suspenseful, too cheesy to be fun and too ridiculous to be thrilling. The ending was ridiculously overblown to an embarrassing degree. 'Wrecker' is slipshod in both editing and camera work that one feels dizzy and confused watching it. The dialogue tends to be awkward, the direction flat and the less said about the acting (Anna Hutchison being the worst) the better. Overall, a wreck. 1/10 Bethany Cox

RELEASED IN 2015 (2017 in the USA) and written & directed by Micheal Bafaro, "Wrecker" is a road/thriller with elements of horror about two young women traveling through the Cascades who are targeted by a malevolent semi tow truck driver.People give this movie the lowest of ratings just because it's a remake of the Spielberg classic from 1971, albeit with obvious changes. The plot and a few scenes are taken almost verbatim from "Duel" (e.g. the trucker deceptively waving the girls to pass and the diner sequence) while some scenes are similar, but different (e.g. the cliff scene) and some are totally new (e.g. the cop sequence).Thankfully, the movie has the same realistic tone as "Duel" without venturing into the cartoonish implausibilities of the Joy Ride flicks, especially the two over-the-top sequels. The BC locations (standing in for Washington) are magnificent; needless to say, great cinematography. I liked the way the girls aren't always babbling back-and-forth; there are several long quiet stretches, just like in real-life traveling.Anna Hutchison is winsome as the main protagonist, but a little on the play-it-safe side, which ties into the distressing climax. Andrea Whitburn plays the somewhat wild child and looks great (I KNEW what happened to her; it's kinda obvious). Interestingly, the aging waitress (Jennifer Koenig) has a superior figure to both of 'em.While "Wrecker" loses points for being unoriginal and a couple of awkwardly edited scenes, it should be appreciated by fans of "Duel," "Joy Ride" (2001) and "Breakdown" (1997).THE FILM RUNS 83 minutes and was shot in the Kamloops area of British Columbia, Canada.GRADE: C+/B- (5.5/10)

This movie begins with two young ladies named "Emily Kirk" (Anna Hutchison) and "Leslie McQueen" (Andrea Whitburn) driving fast in a red Ford Mustang on a two-lane road somewhere in the Pacific Northwest on their way to Sacramento. As it so happens, they soon come upon a tow truck pulling another vehicle and without much thought Emily decides to pass even though they are in a no passing zone. It's only later when they pull over for gas that Emily notices that the tow truck has also chosen to pull into the same service station as them. Although she doesn't get a good look at the driver she reflects on things for a minute before eventually dismissing everything as being just a simple coincidence. However, upon leaving the gas station this same tow truck not only only passes them but begins to drive extremely dangerously as well. It's then that both Emily and Leslie come to the horrific conclusion that the driver of this tow truck is crazy and that he is quite intent upon killing both of them. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film is essentially a remake of the 1971 made-for-television movie "Duel" which starred Dennis Weaver as the innocent driver being harassed by a psychotic trucker in a semi carrying diesel fuel. On that note, while this particular remake certainly wasn't a bad movie by any means, I have to say that the original film had more suspense and was the better of the two. That being said I have rated this film accordingly. Average.