Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Wreckage (2010)

When their car breaks down outside of town after a drag race, two couples walk to the closed junkyard in hope of finding a belt for the car.  But an accidental shooting causes one of the guys to run back to town.  This begs the question, if it's close enough for him to run back to town, why not do that in the first place?

When he returns with the Sheriff, his friends are nowhere to be found.  As with many small town lawmen, they start suspecting it's a prank.  Sigh.

In an intersecting plot line, a serial killer has escaped from jail.  Even though the Sheriff is aware of this, when they find blood which supports the story the kid told, the Sheriff thinks maybe the boyfriend killed his friends.  Seriously? He went to get help and there's a serial killer on the loose.  Why are small town sheriff's so stupid?

There's a lot of fussing and running around in the junkyard while the bodies start piling up.  Scoot McNairy plays Frank, the nephew of the junkyard owner.  He comes out chewing the scenery and really irritated the hell out of us with the over the top lame hick routine.  But soon, we found ourselves laughing in spite of ourselves, at his comic delivery.  We ended up thinking he was the best thing about this film.

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