BURIED (USA 2010) **
Directed by Rodrigo Cortes

Everyone’s worst nightmare, waking up in a buried coffin is realised in Rodrigo’s Cortes low budget horror thriller BURIED.  Paul (Ryan Reynolds) wakes up in one armed with only a lighter and a blackberry with only three bars of power. 

He tries to call whoever possible to get him out but often with disastrous results – wife not home; insurance agent rejects him etc.  It turns out that Paul recalls being ambushed by insurgents in Afghanistan and finds himself to be held at ransom.  All this is find and dandy but Cortes infuses more and more ridiculous subplots into the story.  Not only that, but he invokes false alarms and unnecessary violence as well - chopping off of fingers and a gun fired off at a head. 
Worst still, the lack of a satisfactory ending leaves his audience feeling rather cheated at the entire enterprise. 

The cinematography by A SINGLE MAN’S Eduard Grau is however, very impressive.