Wrecked

**

Adrien Brody is the entire show in Wrecked (2011), as this guy awakening with amnesia trying to get out of a car he’s trapped in, having careened off the road down some ravine, coming to a halt, bent and crashed all to hell. He spends a majority trying to either leave the car or crawl out of the woods to safety. He talks to himself and tries to find food. A dog shows up to provide some company, at first reluctant to approach him. Bodies of folks who were thrown from the vehicle or yanked about by a cougar for a later meal seem to have been part of this wreck. But who are they? Brody trying to survive and his methods of seeking escape from the wilds are of the film’s main focus. A woman (Caroline Dhavernas) continues to show up to Brody (water and a snack gobbled by Brody only for it to seem to be unreal) as he ponders her reasoning for being a constant presence to him. She obviously has significance and her connection to him will eventually come to light. Brody dragging himself around, into a river, only to wind up back where he started, and the “physical confrontation” with the woman kind of feels like the film is “treading water”, but I get the point. He’s not just literally wrecked, Brody’s mentally/psychologically/emotionally wrecked. I feel like this film will be a bit of a gnawing, nagging problem because of the “nothing really happens” argument. Brody has to carry the load through his face and physicality, his character enduring quite a bit. But the film spends almost all its exclusive time with Brody in the woods. So that will be an issue with some. I like the actor, and he has the talent to pull it off. But this does has a short film premise stretched out to feature length…that critique applies here, especially, I think.