Once we have overcome the disappointment that the film isn't the Deliverance rip-off it first gave the impression to be, there is definitely a story here to be told and the film even makes a few brave attempts at a more existential level (the reason for staying alive after all that you love has been killed while you're alive etc). But it's nothing that really works, since the film also wants awfully bad to be a stylish action-thriller, with plenty of slow-motion photography (always boring) and fast flashy editing. Which of course makes every attempt at any depth seem even more boring. And it doesn't benefit from the story development being totally unengaging and predictable and ridiculously incomprehensible. For instance we don't ever learn how they could find this one lone killer, whose identity is unknown, in this enormous forest. They just find him standing behind a tree shooting bears. There's also a subplot about a Chinese dealer in spare parts that someone forget to finish. But the strangest thing however, is that while the story moves on in this uninteresting manner, you nevertheless find yourself following what's going on in front of you with fair interest. The only reason for this that I can think of is the believable and likable characters. In the lead an uncharacteristicly boyish Mädchen Amick (half German, half Swedish, known from Twin Peaks and Sleepwalkers) gives an honest and dedicated performance and she feels right for the part. Also veteran Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves) adds neccessary credibility to his formula-cop (cynical, divorced, drunken bla bla). As does a cast of supporting actors, many of which you've seen on TV many times (like fatso Jon Polito). It's because of the actors doing their job that Wounded reaches just above turd-level, because the filmmaker's divided ambitions to do something more lasting fails miserable.

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