Review of Buried (2010) by Jackronner — 06 Jul 2020

100% SPOILER ALERT. I've no problem with claustrophobia, so that's not why this movie sucked. Reynolds is quite good tho', and even squeezed out a laugh or two. But the whole plot is a waste of all the things a buried man needs: Oxygen, battery power, time and a literal waste of breath.

Burn up your oxygen with seemingly eternal flame of your lighter(best advertisement ever for Zippo) - don't just rig it so the flint wheel spark gives you a momentary flash. Waste time, battery and breath talking to an HR guy who's slowly firing your ass, just hang up so you can get calls and make videos, etc.

Don't switch off the battery sucking vibrator as they told you to do either. ABOVE ALL don't try to figure a way out of there. As they said in the film, having a phone signal means it's a shallow grave and they left him a knife (which he should've found in an immediate search of his space).

So, try to lever an overhead board down and try to snap it near your right shoulder, aided by the weight of the earth above;' allow a limited flow of sand to enter and push it down your body towards your feet, stomping it in the far end.

Then, perhaps using a portion of the broken board, dig upwards to air. You probably have about 18 squ. ft' of vertical space in the coffin, so plenty of room to take a small section of vertical soil before breaking into air.

Also, the searchers could've honked their horns since they thought they were so close: "Can you hear me now??". I know the guys upset, but I figured out a way to get a car off my chest that would have suffocated me in about 15 mins; imminent death does wonders to concentrate the mind, believe me.