Adrien Brody’s screen persona drives the indie feature “Wrecked.” We watch in both astonishment and puzzlement as the unnamed victim awakens in the wreckage of a car in a gorge somewhere in the mountains. Bruised, bloodied, amnesiac, and unable to get out because he’s wedged in the twisted auto, his frightening predicament steadily worsens. Two dead bodies are in there with him, there’ a gun, and a newscast on the car radio about escaped bank robbers makes him wonder if that’s who they all are, especially when he finds a bundle of cash. The only living creatures around are a wandering friendly pooch and a mountain lion on the prowl.
In line with fellow colleague-directors Danny Boyle (“127 Hours”), Rodrigo Cortes (“Buried”), and Joel Schumacher (“Phone Booth”), and with the respective actors James Franco, Ryan Reynolds and Colin Farrell, Michael Greenspan keeps us in his director’s grip as does the performing Adrien Brody. He doesn’t know if he has flashbacks to the past, hallucinatory images, dreams or fantasies. “Wrecked” is a great portrayal as if it were a screen test to live or die for.
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