This is going to be a very short review because, frankly, there isn't much to say about Wrecked. The first 20 to 30 minutes of the film consists of Adrien Brody trapped in a wrecked car deep in the forest… For the remaining 65 minutes, we get to see Brody crawling around the forest / wilderness. Throw in a hallucination here and a mountain lion there, and that's the whole film. Not too entertaining, even with the few appearances of the mountain lion – and that says a lot about the approach director Michael Greenspan took with the film. Despite Adrien being a great actor and doing his absolute best with the script, the film never really delivers on the suspense or the thrills. It's a one-man show that goes absolutely nowhere, and that's not Brody's fault. Greenspan never picks up the pace of the film; he uses flashbacks and hallucinations ineffectively; and tries to build suspense around a story-line that just doesn't have any. If you want to see a great survival film with few characters that gets it right, watch Frozen, 127 Hours with James Franco, or the classic Cast Away with Tom Hanks.

I was in a very brutal car wreck 9 months ago that broke my arm and shattered my hip (acetabular fracture). This movie seems to imply that Adrian Brody's character had similar injuries to mine and also threw in a really busted up knee! Seeing him trapped in the car and how he played the injury to his lower body made my breath catch in my chest on a few occasions. I would say I ran through similar emotions to him while trapped in my car, and with that regard I think not only was it well acted but seemed very true to what would happen in real life. All told this was a very claustrophobic and capably done suspense film. Anyone who has suffered a severe physical trauma in any type of accident probably had the same visceral reaction that I did. The plot twists were decent, but Brody selling the scenes while trapped in the car were frighteningly good.

I am a couple years late seeing this film but the myriad reviews I've read demonstrate to me that many do not get this film. Hence, I am writing one in its favor.All the complaints about "slow-moving plot," and that the story doesn't move fast enough, provide enough "action" or "suspense" are, in my opinion,indefensible. So accustomed to traditional suspense ploys, this is not so much about what happens next as what is happening in the moment. It is about the need to make a shelter within a vacuum, to find a foothold in a raging river, to find a bit of nourishment from a morsel and a little warmth from a beast's body in lieu of a human one. It is about the looming and interminable experience of guilt, whether real or imagined. No one understood the presence of the woman and why she is both savior and nemesis. Near film's end, there is a snatch of what seems a trivial argument between the two. On the brink of his own extinction, the crash victim tries to extinguish his guilt about this little altercation. This regret looms as tall as the tree-tops against the sky as he is lying in the dirt looking skyward. The man clings to life in the same way that we cling to our magical thinking, cling to those tiny respites from the daily anguish of survival, both physical and mental. We and this protagonist learn the truth at the end, suggesting that if we manage to survive, we too will learn that we might have been the good guy all along. The element of suspense is couched in the wild and unforgiving setting--both within his mind and in the wilderness and create enough nurture to choose life.

Imagine for a minute that you wake up bludgeoned, battered, bloody and bruised pinned in a steel death trap at the base of a mountain with no recollection of how or why you are there, with the only sign of humanity being an unknown corpse in the back seat. This "in medias res" beginning is how Director Michael Greenspan and Writer Christopher Dodd start off their debut feature film titled Wrecked.Wrecked is a story of a man (played by Adrian Brody) that has just awoken in the after math of a major car accident in what appears to be a ravine with only a corpse (and his deteriorating mind) to accompanying him. After a days worth of struggle Brody finally frees himself from the constraints of the wreckage only to crawl through hellacious terrain while trying to ward off haunting hallucinations that have manifested from guilt of an incident he can't even remember.Brody's performance is nothing short of spectacular especially considering the sheer screen time and lack of dialogue he has in the film, however this didn't stop him from portraying an ineffable range of emotion throughout. Brody isn't the only star on deck however, Cinematographer James Liston emphasizes this by employing juxtaposed high and low angle shot's to help shroud Brody's already enigmatic mind. The story however seem to have a couple "hiccups" that take away from the overall verisimilitude of the film which can be a deal breaker for some. This should not deter anyone from the film, it is well worth the time.