Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) is a civilian truck driver in the middle east delivering supplies. His convey gets attacked, he blacks out and wakes to find himself buried alive in an old fashioned wooden coffin.
Armed only with a zippo lighter and a smart phone, he must hold his composure while trying to get various people in the U.S. to belive that he's buried in the dessert in the middle east. All the while he must be careful to not allow his lighter and his anxiety attacks to exhaust his air supply.
The ClearPlay Experience
With Buried being rated R for violence and language, I only chose to filter the absolute worst violence and language, which still left a lot of audio muted in a lot of instances, due to Paul dropping the f-bomb rather frequently. (He is buried alive after all.)
I couldn't detect any skipped scenes, so I'm not sure what violence is in this movie, except for one moment where Paul's kidnapper sends him a video of a co-worker being shot with an automatic weapon. This video he watches is blood-free, very quick and the co-worker is off camera when the gun is fired.
Back to language, when ClearPlay mutes dialogue, if the actor's face is on screen you can read lips to know what is being said, but in this movie it's dark (figuratively and literally), and due to the low lighting conditions on Reynolds face for a lot of the dialogue, most language that is muted you cannot see what Reynolds character is saying, which makes this experience all the better.
Buried is rated R for violence and language, but even with the violence and language filters at the absolute lowest setting this one has a common sense rating of PG-13 for the face-value content lacking inappropriate language and any violence, with the exception of the really brief video he is sent. The subject matter of being buried alive in a coffin and dealing with the possibility of never being rescued might be inappropriate for those under 18.
