 "Keep you on edge ALL the way to the end." | 2008-09-14 |
| - Reviewed By cddvd-lover |
Both Chris anBasinger are good in this movie but Chris is very good-looking but they made Kim B. look worn out (why they had to make her look old?)
It is about a phone idea that is NEW Some reviewer are to harsh. Don't be too picky. What other movie that is similar to this one? One drawback is a few of the bad guys (Jason Satham) looks so similar to other guys which made me confused who and who at the first watching. |
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 "Chris Evans - Good Man, Jason Statham - Bad Man!" | 2008-08-22 |
| - Reviewed By channel1suite |
A surprisingly good performance by Chris Evans (Ryan), who's the somewhat dorky, macho dude; against the convincingly evil, badman kidnapper, Jason Statham (Ethan). Kim Basinger plays Jessica Martin; a panicked, desperate, tortured, but determined and very ingenious wife of the hunted husband. She also comes up in the clutch as the movie progresses.
The action is fast and sometimes hilarious, with Evans doing the footwork (via his cell phone) in various impossible situations trying to help Basinger (especially when he needs to recharge his phone - a real doozy of a scene). William Macy is Detective Mooney, who eventually puts the pieces of the puzzle together while Ryan (Evans) traverses all over town creating mayhem all his own, while attempting to foil the kidnappers.
Good acting (and action) by Chris Evans, with able support from Basinger, Macy and Statham. A surprisingly entertaining movie. |
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 "Never a dull moment." | 2008-06-08 |
| - Reviewed By efe_okonedo |
| Action thriller about a young man (played by Chris Evans) who answers a call on his mobile phone from a woman (played by Kim Basinger) who claims to have been kidnapped and needs his help and the lengths he goes to help her and stop the people who have kidnapped her and her family. A good action film featuring one of my favourite young actors Chris Evans in the lead as well as Brit-flick favourite Jason Statham as a menacing lead villain. A good way to spend 90 minutes or so with never a dull moment. Oh and one more thing: mobile phones feature heavily in this film (as you may have guessed from the film's title). |
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 "If you like CORN and CHEESE, then feast your eyes!" | 2008-04-14 |
| - Reviewed By brufus4 |
| This movie is just plain lame. Farfetched, cheesy, corny so-called action movie. Kind of a novel concept, but to make a kidnapping action suspense movie out of it just reeks of corn. And BTW, subtitles programmer, "lose" is not spelled "loose"!!!!!! |
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| "So bad." | 2008-02-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2PV6GK1HV54Y9 |
| Don't watch this pathetic movie, it's horrible and I am being kind. Cellular was marketed as a suspense thriller but it is full of fluffy jokes and robotic acting. Chris Evans is nice to look at but he has no emotional depth and Kim Basinger should know better than to pick this as a serious role. The only funny part of Cellular is that Ricky Martin joke and that's it. Don't waste your time on this stinker. |
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| "Been there, done that; watch something else..." | 2008-02-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: ANCOMAI0I7LVG |
`Cellular' is not a good movie. Despite that fact it is entertaining to a degree and does provide a sliver of enjoyment. Watching this movie the other night I was forced to realize that not everything entertaining is necessarily desirable. I may never watch this movie again but that doesn't mean that for a few moments I wasn't excited at least a little. `Cellular' has a few things going for it but it has so many detractors that you can't help but notice every flaw. That's the clincher for this poorly devised action thriller. It doesn't have enough going for it to offset the amount of wrongs here. The plot is weak, the acting is horrible and the action scenes are tired and overdone.
The plot revolves around woman who is kidnapped and locked in a dusty old room. This man comes in and smashes the only telephone in the room with a sledgehammer (why didn't he just remove it civilly) and then goes on yelling about something ("give me what I want"). Obviously frazzled this woman pieces the phone together so that she can contact the outside world (whatever) and happens to get connected to the arrogant Ryan. Ryan doesn't believe her story at first but then overhears the kidnappers and is suddenly convinced. He then sets off on a race against time to save this woman and her family. Along the way a burnt out cop on the verge of retirement gets sucked into the case when Ryan frantically seeks his help only to get the brush off (in a scene that is so unrealistic it made my eyes do circles).
The acting, as I mentioned, is atrocious. Kim Basinger is utterly terrible as the kidnapped Jessica. It just seems like amateur student acting. I normally at least enjoy her acting somewhat. She was flawless in `L.A. Confidential' and convincing in `8 Mile' but here she is a complete waste. Another waste is Chris Evans. I hate this kid; unfairly but I do. It's funny, my wife is always talking about how she hates Jessica Alba and Jessica Biel because they are too pretty...that's how I feel about Chris Evans. I hate him. That, and he can't act to save his life. His performance is comical. He almost reaches Paul Walker levels here. I won't rip on Jason Statham too much because you don't expect him to act, you just expect him to kick and punch and yell a lot and he does. Acting is not his forte. In fact the only redeemable acting point here is William H Macy who seems to have perfected being solid in mediocre films (why can't he get another `Fargo'?). He also has like the best use of the F-word in a movie I've ever seen.
`Cellular' tries to be high-octane and keep us at the edge of our seats but its lack of originality in action sequences can leave the audience a bit bored. There is a lot going on but we've seen all of it done before.
Like I said, there are moments of excitement and it is overall a tad entertaining, but it's not a good movie in the least. There are plenty of action thrillers that succeed on a much higher level at entertaining and enthralling the audience that I can't think of any justification to bother with this movie at all. There is much better out there so why waste your time. Watch something else. |
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| "Weak script, annoying film, but dvd documentary on bad cops is great" | 2008-01-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: A356RFKNIG043B |
4.5 stars for the Rampart doc
Cellular is annoying after a while due to its main device, the looooong phone call. It grates after five minutes or so but goes on for muuuuuuch longer than that! The dialogue is insipid, the director has no idea how to make it seem real or even properly dramatic, and it all quickly devolves into a boring and bothersome mess.
Basinger was never much of an actress, and is true to form. Statham is way too nice as the bad guy; he's getting used to being the hero and is afraid to be really nasty here. Too bad, as he's a great villain, but not here. Macy is the only decent thing in this flick, but even his turn at comic relief gets old. All in all, a big pass on this one.
BUT. It's a sad day when the extra documentaries on a dvd blow away the feature, but that's what happens here. I didn't watch the making-of...who cares to if the film sucks? The doc on cell phones is pretty good, though, and is properly critical of how they've screwed up our lives (I still don't have one, proudly!). The real highlight of this dvd is the doc on the LA Rampart police corruption scandal. It's brief and to the point, and eventually points out convincingly that the entire LA police department was invloved in drug dealing and various other crimes that they supposedly swore to protect those of us who pay their salaries from. The doc shows top police brass shutting the investigation down as it gets too close to the truth.
But hey, anyone who can read and use logic knows what they're hiding. Our gov't admitted to trading guns for powder in the Iran-Contra scandals, so we know our military runs drugs. Many books by ex-CIA agents prove that the agency has dealt and no doubt still deals much of the hard drugs in this country. Every year since we invaded Afghanistan the H production has gone up. Coincidence? Yeah, right.
This documentary shows how street cops are involved in aiding and abetting the drug-dealers who run our government and start our wars to keep the police state in place and the money and power flowing their way. When the truth is almost uncovered suddenly the chief of our largest police force stops the investigation, no doubt at the behest of its bosses in the military and CIA. This is not conspiracy theory. It's easily provable fact. Read the books by ex-agents, read the Iran-Contra testimony, read the various books on how crack started in LA in the 80s as a very successful form of controlling the black population and filling our private, for-profit prisons and keeping the police state ever stronger. It's working better every day for them while this country goes down the economic and moral tubes.
No nutty theories here. Just well-documented fact. That Americans refuse to believe it only shows how deeply hypnotized we are by the media and our own greed and national ego.
Call someone on your cell phone and tell them about it. |
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| "Cellular (New Line Platinum Series)" | 2008-01-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: ANC4O68MCZ0Z4 |
| lots of fun entertainment- watch again and again - cast is great |
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| "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" | 2007-12-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A39IBJB2PBVC7I |
If you've ever called tech support or customer service and been put on hold where you were subjected to agonizing minutes of Kenny G debasing the very concept of music itself and draining all joy and meaning from it, then you have a sense of what watching Cellular is like. Those in need of evidence that Hollywood is really an overgrown puppy mill whose only mission is to perpetuate itself should start here. Cliches, cheesy gimmicks, and one-sentence concepts - suitable for elevators - stroll with comfortable familiarity as if to suggest - Hollywood really is the one place where they believe practice makes perfect.
Writer Larry Cohen is also responsible for a somewhat less idiotic communications industry film called Phone Booth, another "high-concept thriller." In Phone Booth, a man could not hang up because a high-powered rifle-wielding psycho wouldn't let him. In Cellular, a man cannot hang up because the fate of leggy, luscious Kim Basinger - trapped in an attic by creepy corrupt cops - depends on it. (Apparently Hollywood writers spend a lot of time thinking about phones.) This movie is so profoundly lazy it doesn't even leave SoCal for its setting, instead treating us to Brentwood footage, (Spoiler Alert: Look for the shot with O.J. wielding a large knife and guilty conscience), and Santa Monica Pier where hundreds of bikini clad girls stroll and troll, cell phones embedded in their ears. Cohen turned over his story to neophyte screenwriter Chris Morgan presumably because it's hard to mess up a paint-by-numbers project.
Highlights: William H. Macy as a cop who actually has a personality, unlike the other cops in this movie, he's not made of cardboard. Chantille Boudousque, an enchanting sylph so chilly she still manages to beam beneath the blistering heat. Rick Hoffman, a man who has turned the hideousness of his visage into an asset. Part human and part beaver, (or rat); Hoffman - in his blue Porsche - externalizes the inner ugliness that must, simply must, be at the core of all lawyers. Chris Evans as Ryan, the protagonist, manages to not look embarrassed by the poor writing and direction - that's acting! Product placement - the producers of this film obviously shopped it around to all the cell carriers, see if you can figure out who won! Kim Basinger. Basinger - an actual actress - spends much of this movie alone in an attic, which enables her to demonstrate her skills without being dragged down by the carnage elsewhere.
When cell phones first became popular, I thought of them as a luxury item only used by people with a compelling need to communicate - a business or family emergency. In no time at all they were ubiquitous, and now provide opportunities for socially abominable behavior that were unthinkable short years ago. Today, there is no illusion that the conversations held on cell phones are any different from conversations held anywhere else, they are cheap, lazy, pointless, unimaginative, dull, false, and exist simply to fill the air. The same could be said of this movie. Welcome to the puppy mill. |
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| "Cellular" | 2007-12-25 |
| - Reviewed By ajseman |
| Don't hold your breath too long! It was a show-stopper! I did not get quite so effected by the second time I saw the story! |
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