"Buried" with Ryan Reynolds: Simply Brilliant.

If you've never heard of it before, Buried is an independent thriller recently made about a man who awakes in a pine box coffin buried in the earth. And yes, the entire movie is in one location. This location. The coffin. The epitome of low-budget filmmaking done so exquisitely well, it would make any producer or director jealous at the simplicity and brilliance of it all.

I was reluctant to see the movie when I heard it took place in a single location. Especially when it's a coffin, not exactly much eye candy to look at. At least Tom Hanks had an island in Cast Away. Ryan Reynolds has a wooden box.

The premise of the movie is this: Paul Conroy wakes up in a box, buried alive. At first we don't know why he's there, but as he lights the coffin with the zippo lighter given to him and we watch as the criminal calls him on the cell phone placed by his side, we begin seeing the plot unfold. As he calls his would-be rescuers, we see him go through the intense emotions that anyone would have being in that situation until help arrives.

I thought I'd get bored with his movie, given the setting. But I was surprisingly not bored at all. Not even once. The director, Rodrigo Cortés, and his director of photography does an amazing job with the angles and camera pushes to keep in interesting. In filmmaking, lighting is always a concern. How do you light a movie that takes place in a coffin without the audience asking "Where is that light coming from?" By giving the actor a zippo lighter to create warm light and a cell phone for cool light. And it worked amazingly well.

And Ryan Reynolds? That man deserves an award. His reactions and emotions are all believable, to say the least. It was awesome that he decided to do this 'smaller' film when he has huge projects like Green Lantern on his belt. I don't know anyone who doesn't appreciate his work, he seems to be loved by all. And I think that's well-deserved.

My advice: make his movie the next movie you rent. You won't be disappointed.