Coffin (2011)

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 movie was OK not the best movie I have ever seen but it does have what one would expect in a thriller. Unless you have not already seen this movie do not read any further!!(SPOILER)Anyway, in the scene where "Trick" and Jack are in the bar, Trick walks out after getting a call and Jack goes to the bar and asks a guy, who has a bottle of pills and is sitting next to another bar patron, if he can have some (the camera is looking out from behind the bar where a bar tender would stand),the patron asks jack to buy him a drink , when Jack takes the bottle and starts to walk away the scene is now facing towards the bar(outside of the bar) and the other patron is gone!The guy tells him the drink is for a couple of pills not the whole bottle ,Then the scene then goes back from behind the bar and the other bar patron is back! My husband tried to say it was the angle but the two patrons were sitting to close, anyone else notice this?

Coffin is set in Los Angeles where a woman named Rona Samms (Sunny Doench) & her lover Sean Justice (Kevin Sorbo) both wake up to find themselves trapped inside a wooden coffin, presumably buried underground. They have a lighter for light, a phone which will only accept incoming calls, a video camera so everything they do & say can be seen & only seventy five minutes worth of air. Businessman Jack Samms (Patrick Barnitt) arrives home to find a masked man who calls himself Trick (Johnny Alonso) waiting for him inside, Trick explains that he has kidnapped his wife Rona & the man she is having an affair with & buried them in a coffin, he show's Jack live footage from inside the coffin of Rona & Sean terrified & struggling. Trick demands that Jack pay him a huge ransom to save the two or they will suffocate within seventy five minutes, Jack is left with no options but he is almost broke & has little to offer so has to play Trik at his own game & try to get the upper hand in order to save Rona & Sean...Directed by Kipp Tribble who also wrote, co-produced & has a small role in it as someone called Scott along with Derik Wingo who is also credited as a producer & a small role playing a character called Epperson this seems to be thought of as a horror film but in reality I would say Coffin is much more of a thriller & not a very good one either. The main problem I had was just how boring it was, even though Coffin only lasts for 85 minutes it doesn't half drag & is so bland & dull that I found myself losing interest several times. How I made it through to the end I'll never know. There's never enough tension or suspense, Coffin is just rather dry & routine to really stand out. The one half decent aspect of Coffin is the twist ending which is alright actually, I didn't see it coming & while it's poorly handled & fails to save the film overall it is at least fairly memorable & in a way quite clever. I suspect that the problem with Coffin is that someone had the idea for the twist ending & thought it was cool but then had the almost impossible task of writing over an hour's worth of padding to proceed it in order to stretch it out to to a full feature length film. Maybe Coffin would have been much better if it had been a 30 minute television program with a breathless pace which would lead up to the twist. The character's are poor, they are either unlikable or badly written, the bad guy is laughable & elicits no menace at all, the two cop's are annoying & the victims trapped inside the coffin are so unlikable you actually wish they would run out of air & just die.Coffin looks like it was made for television with a very cheap feel to it, very average hand-held type feel to the photography & boring locations. There's absolutely zero gore or nudity in it, there's no sense of humour & not much profanity either in what it a pretty tame & restrained film. The film never really manages to build any momentum or tension to the plight of the character's or the situations, it all feels so staged & a bit half hearted.With a supposed budget of about $600,000 this had a pretty low budget & it show's, filmed in Los Angeles. The acting isn't great although the cast is better than one may expect, Hercules man Kevin Sorbo, Bruce Davidson from the likes of General Hospital & X2 (2003)& the rest of the cast seem to have a fair amount of acting credits behind them as well.Coffin is a mystery thriller that never manages to to be thrilling, I just thought it was a pretty dull & boring film I found it impossible to get into, the twist ending did impress me a bit & I liked that but by the time it comes it's far too little far too late.

The plot: A psychopath puts Kevin Sorbo and his mistress in a coffin. They only have 70 minutes of air, and time is running out. In the meantime, the mistress's husband races to save them, though he's not entirely sure that he wants to.Let's just get to the chase here: this is a limp Saw clone. Nothing I say will dissuade hardcore Kevin Sorbo or Saw fans from watching this, of course, but I feel that it's my duty to warn everyone else who's on the fence. Normally, low budget movies with poor acting don't bother me much (I'm a Troma fan), but this was laughably bad! The antagonist was so non-threatening, it was like he was played by Stephen Fry. He tried his best to be "a total pro", but it came across as being pathetic. I could see shades of Jigsaw and Heath Ledger's Joker, but it was like one of your hammy friends doing his best impression (which isn't very good), rather than a professional actor. The rest of the acting was pretty standard for a B movie, though Bruce Davison obviously stands out as a talented actor. Kevin Sorbo isn't bad, but his role is somewhat limited, being that he's trapped in the titular coffin. The directors turn up as cops investigating the case. Surprisingly, they're pretty decent actors. Can't really think of anything nice to say about their writing or directing, though.I've seen worse, but this is still memorably bad.If they'd cast a better actor for the antagonist, this might creep up to a 5/10, which isn't really all that much better, but he really ruins this movie. There isn't much violence, gore, nudity, or even profanity in this movie, which makes it perhaps the most curiously inhibited Saw clone that I've ever seen. Perhaps it was meant to be more of a generic thriller, then took on aspects of Saw? Who knows. Who cares. It's a bad movie, and I'm not going to sit here thinking about it.