To begin with, a review of a movie I saw little less than two hours ago...
Movie Title: "Buried" (2010)
Writer: Chris Sparling
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
"Buried" is a delightfully disturbing film which will get those of you who suffer from claustrophobia gnashing your teeth and clinging to your seat the whole way through. Beginning in total darkness, with naught but the sound of heavy breathing, the opening scene sets a fearful tone which pervades the film and is hard to shake off even when you walk out of the cinema. Ryan Reynolds, I thought, was a strange choice, but after seeing this movie I take back any doubts I had about his acting ability. This film might just be the one to break him out of the mildly entertaining, but not fantastic, comedies he has featured in previously. Reynolds does a spectacular job of playing our lead character, Paul Conroy, who has been buried alive in a box with nothing but a zippo, mobile phone, pencil, and a few other, seemingly useless, oddments. Conroy and one surprise visitor are the only living things we see in this movie, as the coffin is the only set, but Cortés and Sparling pull off such an amazing combination of brilliantly realistic filming and dialogue that this doesn't detract from the film at all. If anything, the simplicity of "Buried" is a major factor in it's brilliance, adding to the tight suspense that makes it such a gripping film, from start to finish.
This is definitely worth seeing, and straight up I'll give it a 9/10.
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