Wrecker

Cast: Anna Hutchison, Andrea Whitburn, Jennifer Koeniga

Rated: 5/10

For an entirely linear movie beginning and ending on not an entirely straight road, the film manages to live up to its B-grade production.

A bad copy of a young Spielberg’sDuel ( when he was just 25), the big tow truck menace that is Wrecker, goes into a deserted stretch of road between Seattle and Palm Strings with two hotties on an emotional recuperation trip that goes terribly sour once the tow truck starts following them menacingly, and to fatal consequences.

The problem with the film is its near barren imagination, much like the stark barrenness of the landscape it traverses. Yes there are moments when you go to the edge of the seat wondering what’s round the next turn but pretty soon interest eases up with nothing catastrophic happening, except the truck following the red sedan in which the two friends are travelling.

Any screamy film on a road-trip is always full of potential but very few really make it to the top of the ladder.

This one gets inexorably mired in bad handling and a largely rippleless plot.

The trucker who is never shown in the film is perhaps the only menace you wish you had seen in place of the rickety devil symbols cluttering his mud splashed windscreen.

On a Diwali weekend, such triumph of evil over good is a bit out of place, you would say. 

Source: The Sunday Pioneer, 8 November, 2015