Coffin

The film BURIED, in which Ryan Reynolds found himself suffocating to death inside a coffin for the entire running time, was itself a disappointment, so invariably this rip-off is even worse. Even though it stars B-movie favourite Kevin Sorbo, he of HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS fame, this is dull beyond belief, ruined by a muddled story and a distinct lack of engaging incident throughout.

The storyline involves a boring protagonist who finds that his ex-wife and her lover have been buried alive in a coffin. Along the way, he's taunted by a masked villain who seems to have watched the SAW movies one too many times, and is tasked with paying a ransom demand, but it's all very uninteresting. The plot seems needlessly muddled in places and extremely dragged out in others.

The acting is poor. Patrick Barnitt is as solid as a block of wood as the hero and the villain is nothing more than an annoying kid. Kevin Sorbo is a fan favourite but is barely seen inside the murky coffin; perhaps he should have been the lead. How they roped old-timer Bruce Davison into this mess I don't know, as it's instantly forgettable.

The first thing to say was the acting was terrible, particularly the main bad guy and the woman in the coffin. I know some of it was down to the direction but anybody who makes Sarbo look like a true thespian must be bad. The story is all over the place and very badly filmed. If they truly spent £600,000 on this I would love to know what that was on, it feels and looks like a very cheap movie.

The main bad guy was so camp I was going to call him "hi de hi" but I love that show. The plot holes in the story would have me calling it Camenmbert - very cheesy.. Don't waste your money, if you have to see it wait until it's on a 12 o'clock showing on a TV channel that has no budget. For all my criticism I have seen worse.

Some reviewers are trying their best to be kind to this film, but it's undeserved. The script is so format, so trite, that it's embarrassing. And the lines are delivered in the most standard way, as if the actors learned by watching awful movies. So much of the emotional delivery is unwarranted, or at least doesn't flow naturally as if real people were talking. It's stilted. It's unreal. It's hamming it up like crazy. My sense is that good acting really couldn't help this script but better actors could have tried. It's frustrating because the script could have been doctored and the actors could have worked harder (or casting might have gotten better ones) because the sets, cinematography, and even the story was not so terrible--it was the execution.

Perfect example to trick the unknown buyers of flicks. Buried (2010) was a must see, so they tried to copy the title, face it, coffin has a lot to do with buried. On the other hand the sleeve also looks very closely to Buried.

But the story is something completely different. We do have two people who are buried in a coffin but there's more going on. It looked promising with the masked villain but once he changed his hood for shades it became ridiculous. And the acting wasn't worth watching too.

Still if you do like thrillers with a plot change then you may like it but it did have an overall low budget look. I just wasn't involved into the characters. No suspense at all just sitting there and thinking at the end, okay but nothing special. I could have known it, it was here already on the sale shelves when it came out.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Around 13 to 14.5 minutes a Woman is seen in just a bra and underpants and after she gets dressed cleavage can still be seen.