Buried – 7.5

The most claustrophobia-inducing film I’ve ever seen, 93 minutes entirely inside a coffin, with one actor who can barely move, lit mainly by his Zippo lighter but often in total darkness, Buried adds one more cinematic chapter, for the politically minded, to the story, Why We Shouldn’t Be In Iraq. Along the way, his phone calls – on a cell phone left in the coffin by his ransom-minded captor – point up the daily selfishness and occasional duplicity in the outside world, without distracting our focus from the panicked, desperate Everyman, buried alive. While American heartthrob Ryan Reynolds is good, if not great, as the captured truck driver, it is interesting that the movie – a metaphor for U.S. involvement in the Middle East? – is a Spanish production, directed by Rodrigo Cortes.

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