Buried
Details: Spain/95mins 15A
Reynolds is Paul Conroy, a truck driver who we learn has been working in Iraq for nine months, when he is abducted and buried in a coffin underground deep in the desert. With only a mobile phone, lighter and torch for company, he soon realises he's being held for ransom. With no way of knowing where he is, Paul desperately attempts to get in contact with the right people to get him out of his living nightmare.
Director Cortes obviously wants the audience to feel as nauseatingly uncomfortable as possible. To call the staging claustrophobic would be an understatement akin to pointing out that Oprah sometimes likes to talk about feelings. The camera is perpetually placed right in Reynold's mush, capturing every single piece anguish from every angle possible. Sometimes it will cut to an overhead view, like we're watching from a few feet above, but it always feels like you're underground with Paul.
The script, whilst realistic and offering character depth in obvious, difficult to convey circumstances, would be nothing without its leading (only) man. It's hard to imagine anyone else pulling of this type of performance, in this kind of manner. Brave is a word thrown around a lot for actors in Hollywood, but Reynolds really goes through the mill here, and more often than not you get the impression the pain on his face is all too real. If this gig doesn't result in an Oscar nomination then something is seriously wrong within The Academy. Not only is it his most impressive work to date, it proves, well beyond reasonable doubt, that he is an actor with undeniable range.
Horrible and innately difficult to watch, this is an excellent, high concept film, executed with minimum fuss and featuring an astonishing Ryan Reynolds. I never want to see it again.
Review by Mike Sheridan
Your Comments
Roochie Doochie
Why anyone would want to go and see a movie about this subject is beyond me.
Posted 29/09/2010 16:18:54
KickedArse
Off to this tonight. Reynolds is a great actor, never gets his dues - until now, obviously
Posted 29/09/2010 17:13:20
johhny
I'd agree with RoochieD on this. Sounds like an excellent movie, but not my favourite topic.
Posted 30/09/2010 16:13:04
Keith
I give it a D+. The whole movie is set in a coffin. In terms of film-making, thats pretty impressive - managing to tell a story in the confinement of a coffin - but I think the overall "plot" suffered because of this. I put the word plot in inverted commas, because there isnt much of a plot to speak of. Its pretty much 'Phonebooth' set in a coffin. Id give it a miss. And the ending... well, this is how it en--
Posted 30/09/2010 17:27:15
jack brown
I haven't seen the movie yet and i reckon the protagonist here has not seen KILL BILL 2 , where uma thurman in similar situation manages to escape and my suspicion is that where the idea for this movie originated , see i am not just a pretty face
Posted 01/10/2010 11:02:02
kellier
I feel sick reading the review, I couldn't go watch it, pure feckin terror, when my time comes I'm going for cremation! KickedArse what'd ya think of it?
Posted 01/10/2010 14:22:49
KickedArse
Yeah, really good. Horrible to sit through and points, but still impressive stuff.
Posted 01/10/2010 14:38:53
Simon
This movie has to be in my top ten piles of crap movies I've seen
Posted 03/10/2010 17:28:41
Keith
After seeing this movie, I'd put it in the same category as Paranormal Activity, The Last Excorcism, DEVIL, etc. AKA - s**t recent movies.
Posted 03/10/2010 17:43:23
KickedArse
Eh, TBC, with all due respect you're talking through your hoop. It's nothing like any of the above.
Posted 03/10/2010 18:52:31
Tony
Loved it, thought it was just a play on the Kill Bill idea and it wouldnt pull it off but i honestly felt it was a unique cinematic experience which was worth the cinema fee for sure. However I am less impressed by ryan renolds, i think he is good but that another actor could have done the same if not better, may get an oscar nod, but i dont think it is a winner, unless we have a slow oscar season
Posted 03/10/2010 22:49:02
Jesser
Good Show, not much of a plot, i have always said that i have never being scared or jumped when watching a movie but this show left me a bit uncomfortable after seeing it, needed a few pints after the movie, Ryan did a very good job,
Posted 04/10/2010 16:45:36
andie
Thoroughly enjoyed it. ryan reynolds was great. He portrayed the intensity of the character in this immense situation very well. Walked away stunned.
Posted 05/10/2010 16:26:08
Paul
Way to ruin the movie, Chell3, thank Jaysus i already figured it out, but you've just spoiled it for everyone else who didn't figure out the end. Seriously can't stand spoilsports who roam around the internet blabbing movie endings just for some attention.
Posted 06/10/2010 14:36:08
Tipkid
Philistine. Thanks for ruining it. I will still go see it though. I like giving my money to people who think inside the box.
Posted 07/10/2010 08:37:58
Monkey29
Worst film I have EVER seen, actually signed up to this website just to warn people not to see it. The WHOLE film is set in the coffin, there's not one other actor, you don't see how he got there, you don't see people trying to get him out, you don't see flashbacks. You don't even get to see the frigging sky as he didn't even get out. WHOLE film consisted of him on the phone to various people with the same basic conversation. Absolutely horrendous.
Posted 09/10/2010 23:24:54
andie
of course the whole film is set in a coffin, thats the whole point, "Buried" being the title. It's ingenious, a must see.
Posted 11/10/2010 16:47:42
Paul
Looks like a great movie to me, but i'm waiting for DVD.
Posted 11/10/2010 22:48:32
abizboah
Good review of an excellent movie, I agree I never want to see it again
Posted 12/10/2010 12:19:50
Ozkennard
Am a bit reluctant to see this - all the reviews are great though. Might wait for the DVD.
Posted 12/10/2010 14:18:23
chell3
Maybe wait for the dvd.. people are expecting ALOT from this movie, but its not all cracked out what the writer made it out too be!! But each too your own like!!
Posted 12/10/2010 19:42:32
Keith
Basically, the movie goes like... Basically, the movie goes like... Basically, the movie goes like... -- Yep, its that repetitive. A man in a coffin talking on the phone over and over again for 95 minutes.
Posted 16/10/2010 17:03:28
brenjamin
Best film I've seen in a long time. Very well made. Just happy I saw it before I came on here to read the reviews otherwise it would have been ruined by the ar5eholes who can't keep spoilers to themselves...
Posted 07/02/2011 09:37:17
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