Wrecked

Tiptoe through the window
The horror!
Imagine: you wake up in a car wreck at the bottom of a ravine. Your face, as you can see in the front passenger mirror, is bruised and bloody. Your leg is stuck under the dashboard. You don't know who you are and how you got there. The driver seat is empty. The front window is smashed. There is a dead man on the back seat. You don't know him. You turn on the radio, and among the brief snippets that you catch are Tiny Tim's hit song (which might help with a time line, together with the car model) and a piece of news about a bank robbery.

Are you one of the robbers? You find a revolver below the driver seat. You find a credit card in the name of one of the robbers, which had been mentioned on the radio. Are you Raymond? After some time you manage to wriggle out of the car. Your leg is broken. You improvise a stabilizer by using pieces of wood and a belt. You hallucinate about a woman coming to help you. You hallucinate about a puma around the car, then about...

Don't watch the trailer first!!! It has a HUGE spoiler!!
Adrian Brody wakes up in a car that has gone down a steep embankment and wrecked in the woods. He can't remember who he is. there is a body in the back seat and I think 2 outside on the ground. His legs are pinned and it takes a long time for him to get out. When he does get out he encounters other people and creatures some real some hallucinations. He is trying to piece together who he is, how to find his way out of the woods and of course trying to find water and sustenance enough to stay alive all the while sorting out what was real and what wasn't.

I thought this was a fantastic movie! It did get a bit slow at times, (it did take him a long time to get out of the car) and sometimes I was unsure what was real and what were his hallucinations, but I like movies that keep me wondering. My biggest problem with it is that I watched the trailer first and that ruins the big revelation towards end. DON'T WATCH THE TRAILER!! If you loved 127 Hours then you will probably like...

Engaging Reboot Of The 1953 Classic
Reboots are a double-edged sword.

On one edge is the depressing realization that Hollywood has genuinely run out of ideas. Using their business model, they've completely crushed all original thought and ingenuity from within. When 'Swimming With Sharks' came out, I was amused at what I believed to be satire. Turns out it was a documentary in disguise. I really shouldn't be surprised, not really. The so-called progressive herd mentality that exists there today in 2011 tends to foster the worst types of misguided hardcore entrenched mindsets, not the least of which results in dead creativity.

On the other edge is that they're quite adept at taking an older product and spiffying up with a bit of modern polish and adding a sharper tack. Taking something old-n-rusty and making it look and feel new again is a genuine talent, and it's one I appreciate, even if it's essentially parasitic.

Such is the case with 'Wrecked' - an engaging reboot of the classic 1953...

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