===Plot=== Imagine waking up in the pitch black darkness not knowing where you are. Your first instinct would be to move but as you try to sit up you bang your head against something, you reach to the side of you but your arms and hands come into contact with something too. Panicking you fumble around for a source of light, your phone perhaps? Or maybe some matches? Luckily you have a lighter to hand so you ignite it, if you can see where you are perhaps you can make some sense of the situation, but where are you?. You are in an old wooden coffin and are buried underground. Frightening, yes? And that's what Paul Conroy finds himself in ...  Read the complete review

It's been a while since I last posted a review, but don't worry readers I am still alive. No need to arrange my funeral just yet. Speaking of premature burials that chilling scenario is exactly what Paul Conroy, the star of Buried, has to endure. When the film begins we learn that the American truck driver has been presumably buried alive by insurgents that attacked the convey he was part of. Seeking employment in a war torn land suddenly doesn't seem like the best idea ever. Perhaps he should have stayed home and settled for something more mundane like delivering beef burger shipments to McDonalds. What's interesting about this movie is that it is set inside ...  Read the complete review

(Film only review) == Buried == The movie is set in 2006 in Iraq, Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a US truck driver, but after his convoy is attacked and he blacks out he suddenly awakens buried alive, bound and gagged, with only a lighter and a mobile phone. Although he first has no idea as to how he got there because he suffered a short term memory loss, he soon starts to piece together what has happened and realizes why hes here buried alive. Paul gradually remembers what happened to his convoy and friends. After finding the mobile phone buried with him in this small coffin underground, Paul attempts to get in contact with his wife and his employers who ...  Read the complete review

About the film Buried is a 2010 thriller film (released on DVD in February 2011) which was written by Chris Sparling and directed by Rodrigo Cortés. It stars Ryan Reynolds. With a run time of 91 minutes, the film is rated 15. Plot Paul Conroy is an American, working as a truck driver in Iraq, thinking it would be a job to help his family out with money situations. The film opens as Paul wakes up, realising he is in a coffin, no idea who has done this to him or what he is doing there. In the coffin with him is a mobile phone and a lighter, along with a pencil. Paul quickly realises that he wont last long in the coffin, with the air quickly running ...  Read the complete review

Film Only Review In one way, Buried is an interesting concept, rarely explored. The entire movie is set in a box and we only ever see one character, although we are introduced to many other's throughout. In one way, it is utterly intriguing, because it calls upon its audience to engage with a character in a terrifying and unthinkable predicament. In the other, it falls flat fairly early on, because its pretty difficult to relate to both the situation and a character who spends most of the film in dull lighting in a state of panic. Paul Conroy awakes to find himself bound and gagged in a tiny enclosed place. Within minutes he manages to shake ...  Read the complete review