A woman wakes to find herself locked in a cryogenic capsule with no memory of her identity or how she got there, and a call centre-like computer voice offering no real help except to give her constant updates on how little air she has left. Sound familiar? Yes, it's 2010's Buried with a sci-fi twist, unsurprising as the French are almost as fixated on futurising everything as the Japanese are, plus the amnesia, so we're as much in the dark as Mélanie Laurent's character is about what's going on and follow her going through the same stages as Ryan Reynolds does in the former film, from denial to anger, determination and despair. But Oxygen brings nothing more to the table apart from Laurent's air-depleting bouts of screaming hysteria and the riddle of who, where and when she actually is. A lot to work through, then, but unfortunately the eventual resolution falls quite flat.
5/10
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