Cellular

Cellular

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Cellular

Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy, Jessica Biel

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. The catch? The woman claims to have been kidnapped; and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

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  • December 14, 2009
    Cellular could have been a decent thriller but David R. Ellis spent next to no time on character development or story and went a bit over the top. Take the clever simplicity of Phone Booth, replace it with stupid dialogue, unlikely turn of events and mind-numbing action sequences...( read more) and you've got Cellular. It's like the guys from the Orange mobile phone adverts actually got one of their films made! William H. Macy brings a slight watchability to the film though, a star just for him (Although he should have known better) Alfred Hitchcock, we miss you!
    Ps. Having one of your own films playing on the TV in the back ground is so egotistical, it?s quite unbecoming of a director. And I liked Final Destination 2!
  • July 31, 2009
    it was okay the plot was fine
  • April 18, 2009
    "If the signal dies so does she."

    A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. The catch? The woman claims to have been kidnapped; and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

    ...( read more)>REVIEW
    Highly unbelievable, yet immensely efficient and entertaining, "Cellular" is a clever thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat for a majority of the 95-minute running time. The cast is great, especially Chris Evans as the everyman who receives a random call on his cell phone by a kidnapped woman (Kim Basinger). Throw in the esteemed William H. Macy as a retiring cop and the teutonic Jason Statham as a menacing baddie and you've got a great cast to help overcome some of the standard suspense flick clichés. If you're one of those people who nitpicks at every last plot detail in movies, complaining about how unbelievable they are, then by all means, skip this one. However, if you can swallow the far-fetched premise and suspend your disbelief for about an hour and a half, then this is the flick for you.
  • October 7, 2008
    I honestly liked this movie and do own it as all.
  • May 1, 2008
    It was.. just watchable. Only just, I mean I survived watching the whole movie somehow, not that it was at all entertaining.

    The plot was one of the stupidest I have ever seen. I mean really, it was. Here it is if you want to know why. Basically this woman [Kim Basinger] was k...( read more)idnapped from her home, and the kidnappers threaten to take her son next. This, by the way, all happened because her husband had footage on his camera of the kidnappers killing 2 people. So, they put the woman in a basement and smash the only phone in there that was connected. When they leave her, she puts a few wires together and suddenly the phone works for her, amazing eh? She gets through to a young guy, maybe in his early twenties, and convinces him that she has been kidnapped and for him to go to the police and take up "10 minutes of his day" to help her. So much for ten minutes - what follows is just a huge mess. The whole time he has no proof that she is actually kidnapped, and yet he goes to all sorts of measures like stealing cars and threatening to shoot people. He even goes to her sons school to try and save him, I mean he could have been anywhere in the world but coincidentally he is close enough to go there. And he even tries to beat the kidnappers to the airport to get her husband, with no plan of stopping them. You guessed right about the happy ending. This plot was just stupid and your left the whole time thinking about stuff he could easily do to help her rather than trying to save them all by himself. Sometimes in these movies they have an ex-cop or something that is the main character and saving everyone, but the one in this one described as childish and immature? How can they expect someone like that to do those things?

    The acting was embarrassing for pretty much everyone. I guess Jason Statham played his part okay, he was the main reason I chose this in the first place. But Kim Basinger? Chris Evans? The acting from them was crap beyond belief, it was as if they were just saying it and showed no emotion from the characters.

    The verdict is that I really, really wouldn't recommend you see this.
  • January 2, 2010
    There are some similar subjects. Check : Phone maniac serials. There are plenty. K.B is too old for this kind of craps. She sould find a nice script for her final curten.
  • December 24, 2009
    Chris Evans is the star of this film, portraying Ryan well. The story-line is easy enough to follow, plus there is plenty of action to keep you engaged.
  • December 22, 2009
    Trying to go to bed and watch this for the first time..Didn't work. I stayed up and watched it all. It was that good.
  • December 22, 2009
    This movie is one of the best movies ever made, there is not one boring part in it, ever one should see it at least one time.
  • December 18, 2009
    Quite terrible. Sad to see Mr Macy stoop to this :p ... Maybe it's just me, but I thought Kim's acting in this was THE MOST cringe worthy peice of cinema I've ever sat through.

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