Directed by Rodrigo Cortés and featuring a script written by Chris Sparling, Buried is a dramatic thriller starring Ryan Reynolds. Chris Sparling, was a former lecturer at Boston University's College of Communication which I thought was an interesting piece of information when I discovered this film.
What you may want to know before watching the movie, is that this is practically a one-man-show. Besides Ryan Reynolds, viewers do not see any other person in appearing physically in the film. And the premise of the entire film? A man stuck inside a box buried beneath the ground somewhere in Iraq as he struggles to survive and escape with only his Blackberry and a lighter accessible to him. The man, Paul Conroy, is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds, who gives a stunning performance giving that he has to entertain a movie audience for 94 minutes within a wooden box.
The film starts out in pitch black darkness, as a muffled noise of Reynolds' character Paul wakes up and discovers his current whereabouts. Crying out loud for help and failing to receive any response, he turns on his lighter, giving the audience a sense of what his small surrounding looks like. Though the movie starts out a bit slow, the story becomes more and more intense as it progresses. Paul's Blackberry begins to ring with his kidnapper telling him to follow specific instructions to survive. He also continues ongoing phone conversations with numerous of people in hopes of them locating his current location and getting him out of the box.
In one of the most intense scenes that had me at the edge of my seat, a snake slithered its way into the coffin that Paul is in, forcing him to use the little amount of space and tools he has to get the creature out of the box before it attacks him.
In summary, I thought that film had a really clever idea. And the fact that the concept of the entire movie was spent inside a box documenting one man's struggle to survive was strange. At first thought, one might think to oneself, "how on earth can an entire movie be spent in a box with one man and be interesting?!" And that was my thought exactly before watching this movie. However, my initial perception of this film was proven wrong as I was kept at the edge of my seat for most of this movie, and found myself connecting with Paul Conroy on an emotional level, rooting for him to survive in the end.
And without giving the ending of the film away, let's just say that I absolutely hated this film, not cause I didn't enjoy the concept and story, but solely because I hated the ending. But without judging the movie by how the plot ends, I must say that I did enjoy it and would give it an 8/10.
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