Buried

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.

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.

Deserves the 10 points just only for not boring me in 90 minutes while staying in a grave all the time. Besides, we've got an fantastic one-man-show by Ryan Reynolds here and also the cinematography and the music are stunning. Must-watch!

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

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.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

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..