Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Buried, despite its seemingly impossible premise, is by turns funny, suspenseful, moving and -- in one heart-stopping sequence worthy of Indiana Jones -- incredibly exciting.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan 2011
fresh:
Buried may be claustrophobic in scale, but its impact is immense.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
31 Jan 2011
rotten:
If the aim is to be unpredictable and to revel in cynicism, you run the risk -- realized here -- that the movie becomes more an authorial statement of purpose than a story the audience can believe in.
– Mary F. Pols,
TIME Magazine,
5 Jan 2011
rotten:
Whatever the reasons that draw us to the movies, spending 90 minutes trapped in a box with Ryan Reynolds isn't one of them.
– Jake Coyle,
Associated Press,
8 Oct 2010
fresh:
The tension keeps building, right to the end. Proving yet again that in movies, even though the space may get smaller, the picture doesn't have to.