Sure, Danny Boyle's brutal one-man survival show, 127 Hours, is getting plenty of critical praise, but do you know what it's missing? A high concept bank-robber-with-amnesia angle. Which brings us to the trailer for Wrecked, in which Adrian Brody wakes up to find himself stranded in a wrecked car that seems to have been dropped in the middle of a huge forest. He cannot remember his name or how he got there...but he has a gun. Your reaction to the trailer will first depend on how you feel about spending an entire movie with Brody. Besides a few flashbacks, it seems that his main co-stars are miles of wilderness, that car and the pistol he wakes up with.
At first it just looks like a fight to survive along the lines of Castaway -- Brody eats bugs, hobbles around, drinks from creeks, looks confused and so on. Then a broadcast on the car radio informs him that he was involved in a violent bank robbery with three other men. Ohhhh. That explains the three dead bodies around the car and the bag full of money in the backseat. He then has to solve the mystery of himself while battling the wilderness and his guilty conscience.
For a film trying to marry the somewhat inaccessible survival movie to an audience-friendly genre film, this one looks pretty dreary -- Brody basically channels different variations of anguish, pain, and confusion through the entire trailer. If it's not going to be any fun, I'd rather see a straight-forward drama without the B-movie robbery angle. Besides that, the payoff to these super-high concept mystery setups is almost always a letdown. Sure, it's fun to imagine the possibilities of the initial scenario, but generally, as more information comes to light, the fun dies. And here it looks like most of this information happens during flashbacks. Ugh.
Verdict: Pass.