Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
Wrecked is a lean, single-location survival thriller resting almost entirely on Adrien Brody's solo performance. The concept — a man trapped in a wrecked car with amnesia, piecing together a dark past — is intriguing and the film sustains tension reasonably well given its constraints. Brody's physical and emotional commitment carries scenes that could easily feel stagey. Cinematography is competent and makes decent use of the forest environment but rarely transcends workmanlike. The amnesia-mystery angle offers modest novelty as a one-man chamber piece but the premise isn't executed with enough ingenuity to feel truly distinctive. The ending deflates much of the built-up tension with a reveal that feels undercooked and unsatisfying, leaving the film feeling slight overall.