By
Chris Tookey
Last updated at 1:14 AM on 16th December 2011
Wreckers (15)
Verdict: Village of the dull
Rating: 
Wreckers is a small, much too
leisurely British film notable mainly for the luminous performance of
Claire Foy, so memorable as Little Dorrit in the television adaptation.
Dull: Wreckers is not up to much but Claire Foy is luminous
She plays a young wife anxious to have
a baby, who moves with husband David (Benedict Cumberbatch) to a
ramshackle house in his childhood village.
Here, through exposure to the locals
and his mentally disturbed brother (Shaun Evans) who comes to stay
without an invitation, she discovers unappetising truths about the
village, her husband and his antecedents.
Female writer-director D. R.Hood has
made a competent first feature, but it’s a piece for actors rather than
audience.
The revelations are not startling or powerful enough, and the
plotting runs out of steam well before the end.
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