A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to be sitting dead in the back seat.
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The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
What we have here is a group of totally uninspired dweebs trying to fake inspiration by being dull, hateful, and negative.It shows.It's a totally predictable, totally Hollywood group of clichés about a guy who wakes up from a wreck, and for no reason at all murders a beautiful young woman, and somehow the Nazis making this think it's okay because she's a hot brunette. Again, the same neo Nazi Hollywood cliché that is force fed to us over and over by idiots who are not only brainwashed themselves, but thinking their propaganda and dullness is Art.It isn't art.
Wrecked is a quite short film which not much at location and much happening. It is very precise in plot as we see how the lead (Adrien Brody) has to survive from suffering a fatal car crash. Throughout some of the scenes we see how it happened (mostly towards the ending). The film is comparable to 127 Hours and Buried but I didn't feel it isn't as good as those two.The first half of the film was engaging as the audience was interesting in his character and wanted to see where the film was going. It hit it's peak when a woman was brought in and was there to help him. What I disliked most about it is, the woman was not used much, he did not asked many questions as to why she came, and what she was going to do to help. Their was no development and this let the film crumble. Also do not understand why he went out his way and do harm to her. Perhaps he was crazy? After she left, I felt the film really suffered and dragged on. The acting was a little overreacted on Brody's part and I didn't care for his character much late on it the film. Also had a predictable ending. We knew he was going to make it out but they could have done much more with it. Also the trailer on the front page reveals a lot. Would be better not watching it before watching the film.
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.
This film proves why there is Danny Boyle, and then there's the rest.In "127 Hours," this smart director instinctively knew how to engage an audience, thrill them, captivate them, and make them sympathetic to the main character without any other characters or story points to speak of.The fact that he pulled this off is something of a miracle.But he did so by realizing, among other things, that holding for 30 seconds or more on a static closeup of his lead actor while absolutely NOTHING happened was not the answer.In fact, he knew it would be the death of his film. Whoever directed (and edited) "Wrecked" doesn't quite understand this concept. These well-meaning amateurs can't quite wrap their minds around the idea that what's essentially a boring story doesn't have to be told in a boring, ultra-realistic way (despite how many reality TV shows have become successful).That's why "127 Hours" was nominated for multiple Oscars... and who's even ever heard of "Wrecked"?? It was never even released -- despite having a major star in the lead role.Maybe, with a good editor, this failed experiment in non-storytelling might have worked as a short film. Even with a terrible director who doesn't understand filmmaking, there are ways to turn the story of a car crash survivor into an entertaining 10-minute short. Features on the other hand generally succeed using a three-act structure and story revelations.At least this wrecked attempt can serve as a lesson to future filmmakers: when portraying a character going through misery, don't make the audience suffer as well! People don't generally turn over their hard-earned cash so they can have a terrible time at the movies.