It takes a lot of balls to make an entire film in an enclosed place using one actor for over an hour. Not many can do it, but Cortez manages it brilliantly. Not many people can do what he did.

People that go into this film will either love it or hate it. Those that don't 'get it' will hate it but those that do will absolutely love it.

Thumbs up to Reynolds for managing to hold the entire film by himself.

I loved the atmosphere created by the film giving Buried a distinctive interactive feel with the character's situation.

I loved the issues that were raised: dwindling corporate responsibility, war in Iraq, the dangers of the average working American in Iraq trying to make a living

And I f***ing loved the ending

Definately one of my top films of 2010

Ryan Reynolds is on the road to the Oscars people!!

Malaysian public movie goers list an average score of 2/5 or for Buried based on Yahoo Movies Malaysia.

While on IMDb, the average score based on the International public movie goer is 7.8/10 and on Metacritic is 8.0/10.

Why is there such a huge difference?? :S

Try reading some of the user reviews on Yahoo Movie Malaysia

Yeah, I know that the 'respect other peoples opinion' applies but not when that opinion is full of invalid criticism! One of the main criticism from Malaysians would be: The whole movie set in a box with one guy for 1 hour, waste of time and money.

That's the point, the director wants to bring the audience into the film itself, to feel the meaning of despair and hopelessness. He wants the audience to interact with the character. Bringing the camera away from the confines of the coffin ruins the purpose of the film. I really don't get why Malaysians are so harsh on the film...

And yeah, I agree with you when you say that Malaysians don't research a film before going into it. They just see Ryan Reynolds and assume that its gonna be an action thriller

Its the same in the US. Twilight Eclipse beat Inception at the box office too.. In Malaysia, Toy Story 3 has the most takings so far but yeah, Malaysians spammed the cinemas spending money on shit like Clash of the Titans (worse movie of the year) and The Last Airbender (never seen it and never will). Basically, films like Prince of Persia, Resident Evil, Clash of the Titans, The Last Airbender and Twilight beat Inception at the Malaysian box office.

Its not really surprising though. Teenagers rule the box office these days and they don't really have a good head in knowing which films are good and which are crap. Throw a few explosions and humongous special effects and they all come out of the cinema proclaiming: best film of the year!

I know because I was a dumb ignorant immature teen myself

Back on Buried, I was quite surprised by the commercial value of Buried in Malaysia. $190,000. Not that bad really. In the US itself, it got $986,000. Amazingly, in Turkey it made more than 2 million! Wow, Turkish people have more taste in movies than us Malaysians