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Buried in the Buried hype
This movie is more a visual experiment than an actual movie. It’s like Alfred Hitchcock’s: ” The Rope ” where he wanted to prove a point by creating a movie in a single shot.The movie is about a transporter who wakes up in a coffin in some part of Iraq, and the story explains his struggle to survive and to get found and rescued. Don’t expect to see anything else than Paul Conroy ( Ryan Reynolds ) for 90 minutes.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad movie but I think the hype created for it doesn’t live up to the movie. Specially the hype created in Spain just because most of the movie crew is Spanish as well as the Director ( Rodrigo Cortés ). It’s well filmed and paced because it doesn’t get claustrophobic making you want to leave. Throughout the movie you really want to see him walk out of there, and that is to admire in a movie of this characteristics.
In my opinion, maybe I would have enjoyed it more if:
- There hadn’t been so much talk about how great this movie was.
- The people in the cinema turned off their mobile phones, stopped commenting out loud what they thought and a gang of teenagers in the last row stopped being so annoying… ( which isn’t a problem of the movie, of course )
Maybe if I see it again some time I’ll come to appreciate it more. I still like “Phone Booth” better. That movie with Colin Farrel from 2002 where a publicist get’s trapped in a NYC Phone booth for the entire movie.
See you soon!
I leave you with the review I wrote on the my iPad :P
