Synopsis
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
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Cast
- Charlotte VegaBrana Brodskaya
- Barry WardMikhail “Tor” Oleynik
- Dan Renton SkinnerCpt. Vadim Ilyasov
- Bill MilnerIossif Gulyaev
- Niall MurphyDimitry Makar
- Kristo ViidingGrigoriy Churakov
- Tom FeltonŁukasz
- Harriet WalterAnna Marshall
- Tambet TuiskCol. Gorbinskiy
- Maksim DemidovIvan Klimko
Recommendations
- 75
The Playlist
Clean narrative lines, top-notch production design, great acting, and Hollywood-grade cinematography and lighting elevate Burial above what might have been a forgettable schlock-fest. - 70
Los Angeles Times
It’s brutal and exceedingly bloody, as one would expect from this kind of lean genre picture. But “Burial” also is packed with meaty philosophical questions about gods, monsters, and men at war, and it’s exceedingly well-executed. - 60
Film Threat
A moderately fun B-flick masquerading as an “elevated” genre piece, it doesn’t quite bury its own hole but never quite finds its footing either. - 60
We Got This Covered
Burial leans too heavily on genre convention without adding anything fresh. For that reason, any decent performances which are happening on screen fail to rescue it from mediocrity. - 58
The A.V. Club
After lots of inconsequential talking that should have been streamlined, the film’s payoff—various shootouts and chases and showdowns—proves boring. Consequently, Parker’s film never fully recovers from its meandering build-up. - 58
Original-Cin
Despite Parker’s apt depictions of the atrocities of war, including but not limited to misogyny, harassment, abuse of power, and crimes committed without accountability, it is a story weakened by allowing the audience to know more than the characters. Careless reveals render a potentially suitable thriller into a merely passable one. - 58
Collider
It is a thriller that frequently flirts with becoming an out-and-out horror film only to never quite arrive there. The result is a middling work that is occasionally interesting, as we see how it attempts to strike a balance between these two distinct ideas. Regrettably, it ultimately can’t hold itself together when it counts. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Burial has a hard enough core, both in terms of its central premise and its pulpy tropes, that for about 30 minutes, it almost works as a decent B-movie, right before it unceremoniously falls apart.
