BURIED
6 out of 10
Not great, but not terrible either.
I was recently invited to an early screening of BURIED at the Lionsgate Screening Room, and though I had my misgivings about the film, I sat down, ready to endure 90 minutes of Ryan Reynolds yelling in coffin.Though I will admit to glancing at my phone for the time more than once, it was a film that was unique in its setting and story paces, and made the most of the limited space it set itself in, in a variety of creative ways.
The music, always intriguing to me, was the kind one would normally find in a big action/adventure flick, and it really opened up the film for me. Reynolds was surprisingly well cast, and I was jarred out of the movie only once by what I deemed a bit of “over-dramatizing” on his part. He kept me involved in the story, and truly did manage to carry the whole movie.
The downside? Perhaps a little predictable, a little too politically skewed in parts, but the quality of the film more than makes up for these negatives, and I recommend it to people as something they should see, though not necessarily in a theater.
NICHOLASGRAFF.com 