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- 2010
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2010
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are ...
Directed By: Rodrigo Cortés
Written By: Chris Sparling
- 2010
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2010
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 35 m
Buried
65
5.7
Where to Watch
Summary But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are ...
Directed By: Rodrigo Cortés
Written By: Chris Sparling
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
65
76% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
17% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
65
76% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
17% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
In theory, we go to movies for enjoyment. Director Rodrigo Cortés inverts that notion with Buried, a terrific, claustrophobic, fist-clenching film in which he tortures his audience in exquisite fashion.
Balanced precariously between a horror film and a war movie, but it's so sly and assured that you can't dismiss the allegorical, even satirical undertones that Cortés teases out of Sparling's conceit.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 280 User Ratings
5.7
58% Positive
162 Ratings
162 Ratings
16% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
26% Negative
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 280 User Ratings
5.7
58% Positive
162 Ratings
162 Ratings
16% Mixed
44 Ratings
44 Ratings
26% Negative
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
this probably the best thriller's ever made intense to the max
the direction is absolutely to perfection I like Ryan Reynolds here he was a one man show and his best performance in his career
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The movie's real asset is Reynolds himself, utilizing his comedy chops for unexpected levity.
Unfortunately, as the phone battery wears down, the plot's theatrics heat up to pot-boiling degrees of incredulity – a senile mother, a vicious personnel director, even a coiled serpent, all vie to raise the ante. Talk about your bad day.
The political angle is gratuitous, even foolish, and certainly a distraction from the movie's visual strengths.
Director Rodrigo Cortes intends us to feel trapped, twitchy and unhappy and at the same time, wildly grateful we're not actually in the box like Paul. I could do without that kind of guilt trip from a film.
Rodrigo Cortes keeps the action bound to the box, limiting his lighting to naturalistic approximations, so that much of Reynolds's performance consists of him grunting and heaving in the dark.
A deeply unsettling thriller which does it best to maximise it's low budget intensity through relatively poor decisions and scenarios. However, the feeling of being trapped in a coffin is just devastating and fine performance from Ryan Reynolds shows it true. The ending makes you think however, that there was absolutely no silver lining to this plot of pure misery
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Claustrophobic sufferers beware, you're in for a scare. 'Buried' is good film, nothing to special but it features enough of a decent plot device to fill the full 94 minutes without feeling outstretched and bloated. At times, it does however, feel like Macgyver in a box, err, coffin. You can tell the director was inspired by **** as a filmmaker as there are multiple eerie influences by the grand master in this movie. Both the lighting and the camera angles are supporting characters in this film as they attempt to focus on a terrific Ryan Reynolds.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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the movie started well.. was moving well.. but i was disappointed in the end because of its negative ending.. this is slightly an overrated **** ending definitely ruined the movie.. otherwise it would have been a great movie..
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Production Company
Audiovisual Aval SGR,
Avalis de Catalunya SGR,
Generalitat de Catalunya - Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICIC),
Icon Film Distribution,
Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO),
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA),
Junta de Castilla y León,
Kinology,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Versus Entertainment,
The Safran Company,
Dark Trick Films,
Studio 37
Release Date Sep 24, 2010
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
Tagline 170,000 SQ miles of desert. 90 minutes of Oxygen. No way out.
Awards
Goya Awards
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Gaudí Awards
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
