Buried

For some people its their worst nightmare, for Uma Thurman it was opportunity to use those martial arts skills you’d learnt but never thought you’d use. For Ryan Reynolds it was 17 days filming the impossible film.

Buried is a very simple concept, one man buried alive, with not much more than a Zippo and a mobile phone, and his bid for freedom, and that’s it. So I know what your thinking, A: How is he going to write about a film where someone's trapped in the smallest apartment known to man, and B: how the fuck are they going to stretch it out to eighty odd minutes, let alone make it interesting. Well I don’t know about A, but hopefully through explaining B, A will take care of itself.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, he retreats to Iraqi underground, surviving as a solider of fortune… go that’s The A-Team, I knew this wasn’t going to be easy. Not so much imprisoned, as entombed, Reynolds aka Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq, is happily trucking along in a convey when said convey is ambushed, and Paul then wakes up 6ft under.

Part of the reason I wanted to see this film was out of sheer curiosity, I, like you may now be, was intrigue, how can one man carry an entire film, pretty much on his own, especially when that man is Ryan Reynolds. A man best known for romantic comedies and the odd comic book movie, but this film, coupled with upcoming superhero movie The Green Lantern, on the proviso it turns out to be any good, and by the trailer it looks likely, should propel Reynolds to level of stardom every honest actor fights for. Yes Buried is that good.

Well it seems so far that A maybe winning out, as its not only difficult to right about a film about a man in a box, that’s a lie I properly could, but I don’t want to tell you what happens because it’ll ruin it, and to ruin a film of this calibre would be a crime against cinema.

Usually I’d included the trailer at the bottom of my ramblings, but even at 68 seconds it gives to much away, just trust me.So instead I’ll just give you who are not that into the comics a lesson in lantern, who’s trailer does follow.

The first thing you need to know, need's a strong word, is there are thousands of Green Lanterns, they’re like an intergalactic force for justice in the cosmos, each member has been carefully selected. The selected individual is given a ring which gives them great power, and the film follows Hal Jordon, the first Human to be selected for The Green Lantern Corps, queue intergalactic adventure, and potential franchise, those sneaky movie types, its almost as if they’ve seen this cash cow, with udders so big they can milk that cow till its dried out steak. And the reason they can ring these udders dry is that the comics, over time, feature a number of different human lanterns, so, much like much like Dr. Who when ever an actor feels its time to move on, alacazam, regeneration, on in the the lanterns case new recruit, and with a new actor in the title role it can go indefinitely, or least until it stops making money, and it does work, Dr. Who has had eleven different actors in the title role, and that started in 1963.

Possibly the most incoherent review yet, well done me.