Fresh
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
Buried
170,000 sq miles of desert. 90 minutes of oxygen. No way out.
2010 · 1h 35m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Rodrigo Cortés
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Rodrigo Cortés Director
- Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy
- José Luis García Pérez as Jabir (voice)
- Robert Paterson as Dan Brenner (voice)
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Alan Davenport (voice)
- Samantha Mathis as Linda Conroy (voice)
- Ivana Miño as Pamela Lutti (voice)
- Warner Loughlin as Maryanne Conroy / Donna Mitchell / Rebecca Browning (voice)
- Erik Palladino as Special Agent Harris (voice)
- Kali Rocha as 911 Operator (voice)
- Chris William Martin as State Department Rep. (voice)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Buried may be claustrophobic in scale, but its impact is immense.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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
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
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.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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