Ryan Reynolds' underrated thriller with 87% on Rotten Tomatoes made the same story as Quentin Tarantino's iconic CSI episode

Ryan Reynolds was buried alive in a shallow grave in the underrated 2010 thriller Buriedand it is exactly the same graph as the CSI episode directed by Quentin Tarantino. Because Reynolds' last few roles have been sarcastic and self-aware, there is a misconception that Deadpool is the only character he is capable of playing. But in Buriedhe gave a dramatic and straightforward performance as an American truck driver buried in a wooden coffin with a Zippo lighter and a cell phone in the Iraqi desert.

Reynolds gave one of his best performances in Buried. The film takes place entirely inside the coffin and the only other actors speak to Reynolds on the phone, so he has to carry the entire film on his shoulders, and he does so skillfully. He leaves the audience involved in this man's desperate attempts to be found and rescued with the limited knowledge and resources he has, until the shocking final scene. But Tarantino made the same story in CSI five years earlier.

Ryan Reynolds' Buried Was A Lot Like CSI's "Grave Danger"

Both revolve around a protagonist being buried alive

Tarantino with guest direction the end of season 5 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — episodes 24 and 25, “Grave Danger” — in which Nick Stokes is buried alive in Las Vegas and his colleagues race against time to find him. This plot is almost identical to Buried. Tarantino played with the trope of a character being buried alive in the second act of Kill Bill: Volume 2. After being caught off guard with a shotgun blast to the chest, the Bride was buried alive by Budd and had to resort to her martial arts training to escape.

But Kill BillTarantino's burial alive isn't as realistic as how Tarantino portrayed him in CSI. It takes place in a heightened reality; the Bride punches the coffin and flies across the earth. From him CSI The episode approaches this nightmare scenario in a much more grounded way (no pun intended).

Ryan Reynolds' Buried was even more intense than Tarantino's CSI episode

It's longer and less predictable

As intense as the CSI the season 5 finale is, Buried It's an even scarier portrait of being buried alive. It's a movie, which means it has a lot more time to make the audience stay with the horror of being trapped in an underground coffin, quickly running out of oxygen. Furthermore, in Buriedaudiences couldn't predict what would happen to Reynolds' main character. In CSIit was pretty obvious they weren't going to kill off a major character in a random episode. Tarantino CSI the episode is great, but Buried It's even scarier.