Have an appreciation for thrillers/horrors and no matter how derivative it looked and sounded there was something about 'Wrecker's' idea that sparked some interest. Also curiosity as to whether it was as bad as has been said, as part of my viewing of low-budget films every now and then for curiosity's sake.

After seeing 'Wrecker', do have to agree that it is that bad. And that it is cheaply derivative of superior films (i.e. 'Duel') is actually the least of its problems. It doesn't even have a promising opening scene, nothing unsettling or suspenseful and bordering on the silly, atmospheric set design (the rest of the production values are just too amateurish to make me remotely appreciate it) or a watchable actor in a small role trying to do something with it to make things better.

'Wrecker's' least bad asset is the truck. Even that can't be properly considered a redeeming quality when its scenes that it featured in are so tension-free and ridiculous and when the film looks as slipshod as it does.

Like a few low budget films seen recently, everything about the story execution feels stale and incredibly dull. Even worse is that it's often confused and then it's too obvious to be surprising or unsettling, too dull to be tense or suspenseful, too cheesy to be fun and too ridiculous to be thrilling. The ending was ridiculously overblown to an embarrassing degree.

'Wrecker' is slipshod in both editing and camera work that one feels dizzy and confused watching it. The dialogue tends to be awkward, the direction flat and the less said about the acting (Anna Hutchison being the worst) the better.

Overall, a wreck. 1/10 Bethany Cox

JUGGERNAUT is essentially an indie version of the Steven Spielberg classic DUEL, made without any wit, originality or style. Instead it's a slavish copy of that truck chase film which replaces Dennis Weaver's harrassed family man with a couple of annoying teenage girls who outlive their welcome about three minutes in. The photography is a little better than a lot of similar indies as this obviously has more of a budget, but it never convinces in the action and stunt scenes and in every aspect it pales in comparison to a film made almost fifty years previously.

You can read all these reviews, but nothing can prepare you for just how terrible this movie is. It becomes painfully evident that all driving scenes are shot on the same quarter mile stretch of road. Some how, SOME HOW, a heavy wrecker is able to keep up with a model year Mustang. And worst of all, you can't stop watching it.