Buried

Buried, the 2010 character study/thriller film stars Rom Com regular Ryan Reynolds, taking a bold step out of comic relief (see Blade: Trinity, and X-men Origins: Wolverine) and into the sole onscreen character of a private company truck driver stationed in Iraq, who wakes up 6 feet under, in a sealed coffin with nothing more than a hip flask, an extremely well filled Zippo and a Blackberry smartphone.

Reynolds shines as the desperate "average joe" in a beyond average situation, while trying to figure out why he's here and ultimately, if he'll ever get out, he runs the gambit of human emotion and while not leaving the confined space, takes us a journey we can only hope we never have to take.

While the social and political commentary (Iraqi attitude to everything American, not just the soldiers and how expendable a company could see its employees) it isnt rammed down your throat leaving it the only thing you walk away thinking about, toward the end i found it hard to breath, needing to get out just as much as he did, truly immersive and technically impressive (yes it CAN be achieved without 3D!) this film will leave you gasping for air and praying for the poor bastard.

Moving, claustrophobic, and well done in most aspects, 9/10