BURIED
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Cast: Ryan Reynolds Rating: MA15+ for Strong Coarse Language Tagline: Paul Conroy has a lighter, a mobile phone, 90 minutes of oxygen... and very few options. Theatrical Release: October 7, 2010 Retail Release: February 2, 2011 BOX OFFICE: The film opened at 148 sites with a $664,004 mediocre gross. The 2nd weekend it lost 62% in oxygen to pull in $255,057. 3rd weekend saw another massive drop, this time a 61% loss to $98,605. |
Plot Synopsis, Review
Paul awakens to find himself buried alive inside a box, at ransom by terrorists in the Iraq desert. With a Zippo lighter and a cell-phone, can he contact the right people soon enough to be rescued?
As far as this films premise goes, it's sticks pretty well. It's engrossingly thrilling and keeps you guessing and entertained throughout the 90 minutes. It's dark and gloomily chlostrophobic atmosphere brings the audience closer to the leading character (only character really) and gives you hope that in the end he will be resuced. Although it exceeded my expectations in terms of managing to keep the story alive when the camera doesn't leave the box, the ending was a pure piece of shit, and made me leave the cinema rolling my eyes with disgust because anyone who has a sense of predictable cliche'd endings, this is right up there.
The plot is very simple and very well written. The one-character visual of the film keeps the audience on track with whats going on, and the only major fall-out with the characters is that the villian keeping Paul hostage is hard to understand (having an accent). As the climax hurls forward, the audiences senses it's gonna be over soon, and when the film quickly jumps to black, they (well me anyway) were disgusted.
The acting was great. Ryan Reynolds really is a quality actor, and can keep the audience liking him, and being sympathetic for him. His character is a everyday American family man trying to do right for his country who would never suspect this situation would happen to him.
Overall "Buried" maintained consistent thrilling and entertainment plusses, but the piss-poor ending was a major letdown that loses alot of the umph that it could've been. My rating is 3/5.
As far as this films premise goes, it's sticks pretty well. It's engrossingly thrilling and keeps you guessing and entertained throughout the 90 minutes. It's dark and gloomily chlostrophobic atmosphere brings the audience closer to the leading character (only character really) and gives you hope that in the end he will be resuced. Although it exceeded my expectations in terms of managing to keep the story alive when the camera doesn't leave the box, the ending was a pure piece of shit, and made me leave the cinema rolling my eyes with disgust because anyone who has a sense of predictable cliche'd endings, this is right up there.
The plot is very simple and very well written. The one-character visual of the film keeps the audience on track with whats going on, and the only major fall-out with the characters is that the villian keeping Paul hostage is hard to understand (having an accent). As the climax hurls forward, the audiences senses it's gonna be over soon, and when the film quickly jumps to black, they (well me anyway) were disgusted.
The acting was great. Ryan Reynolds really is a quality actor, and can keep the audience liking him, and being sympathetic for him. His character is a everyday American family man trying to do right for his country who would never suspect this situation would happen to him.
Overall "Buried" maintained consistent thrilling and entertainment plusses, but the piss-poor ending was a major letdown that loses alot of the umph that it could've been. My rating is 3/5.