Buried: the unbreathable survival with Ryan Reynolds buried alive [critique]

Cstar is rebroadcasting the claustro thriller by Rodrigo Cortés, released six years before the Deadpool phenomenon. Première advises you.

Buriedwith Ryan Reynolds locked alive in a coffin, will return to television this evening. It's an effective thriller, far from the superhero roles (Deadpool, Green Lantern) that made its star successful (well, not from the start). When it was released in 2010, the Canadian actor had already played Wade Wilson for Fox/Marvel, but only in the unloved X-Men Origins: Wolverineand he had not yet appeared in the cinema in the Hal Jordan costume at DC, Green Lantern coming out a year later.

The pitch of Buried ? An American engineer working in Iraq wakes up in a coffin. His last memory: he was knocked out. He has a cell phone and a lighter, and a supply of oxygen that will barely give him time to finish the film.

Produced by Lionsgate on a minimal budget, the feature film uses rudimentary anxiety techniques that prove very effective. Here is the review published when it was released in First :

“Buriedit is at the same time an irresistible survival (hats off to Cortés' tense staging), an underlying reflection on the meaning of life and a political parable. In short, an organic, existential and committed film whose audacious script was rejected by all the studios. Like its title (” buried “in French) and its subject indicate it, Buried symbolizes the United States' getting stuck in Iraq. Paul Conroy is less the victim of vengeful local guerrillas than that of an overconfident American administration. The telephone exchanges with his compatriots are, in this regard, confounding with cynicism, even irresponsibility. An average American (he's a trucker who came to Iraq to earn more money), Conroy also embodies all these anonymous people who have been drained by the global crisis. We can understand why, in these conditions, the American public has shunned a film which reflects such a negative image. It’s time to reverse the trend.”

After Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds is preparing another film with Hugh Jackman