Buried

Kris.... Waking groggy in pitch darkness, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working as a contractor in Iraq in 2006, slowly realizes he is trapped inside a wooden coffin, buried alive. With his cigarette lighter, he can see the trap he is in, and he quickly realizes that there's not enough air for him to live long. He finds within the coffin a working cellphone, which allows him contact with the outside world. But the outside world proves not to be very helpful at finding a man buried in a box in the middle of the Iraqi desert. Paul must rely on his best resource--himself. The entire movie takes place in the wooden box. No flash backs or out side shots. so how does this work? Ryan Reynolds is how. He does an excellent job here. Other than him there are only a few voices on the phone. The pace of the movie is good and Reynolds is strong. I wasn't really happy about the ending but it was more realistic than a Hollywood ending. So all in all I say Buried was worth checking out.