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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.
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Ryan Reynolds
Paul Conroy
José Luis García Pérez
Jabir (voice)
Robert Paterson
Dan Brenner (voice)
Stephen Tobolowsky
Alan Davenport (voice)
Samantha Mathis
Linda Conroy (voice)
Ivana Miño
Pamela Lutti (voice)
Warner Loughlin
Maryanne Conroy …
Erik Palladino
Special Agent Harris (voice)
Kali Rocha
911 Operator (voice)
Chris William Martin
State Department Rep. (voice)
Cade Dundish
Shane Conroy (voice)
Mary Birdsong
411 Female Operator (voice)
Kirk Baily
411 Male Operator (voice)
Anne Lockhart
CRT Operator (voice)
Robert Clotworthy
CRT Spokesman (voice)
Michalla Petersen
Nursing Home Nurse (voice)
Juan Hidalgo
Kidnapper (voice)
Abdelilah Ben Massou
Kidnapper (voice)
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<em>'Buried'</em> mostly delivers, the ending is what makes me definitively say that I had a positive time. The film does build tension nicely, it feels claustrophobic without a doubt. It is also paced competently, impressively so given its one location setting (credit to Ryan Reynolds).
The only criticism I hold is that the film makes the lead character kinda unlikeable early on, which really shouldn't be the case given it ought to be a tap-in to make you care for Paul Conroy given the plot's nature. To me, in moments, he came across more dick-y than panicked.
That kinda led me down the garden path in terms of predicting how it was going to all end, one on my (half-baked) theories was that it was going to head in a <em>'Butterfly on a Wheel'</em>-esque (great movie, fwiw) direction. It didn't, of course, but the unpredictability was satisfying.
I'm perhaps being harsh or was overanalysing with the unlikability factor. Either way, it doesn't really matter all that much because I still think of this in a good way post-watch. Well worth seeing.
r96sk13 Feb, 2025
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