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DVD Cellular (New Line Platinum Series)
Just when you think it's getting silly, Cellular serves up another tantalizing twist. In the time-honored tradition of Sorry, Wrong Number and Wait Until Dark, Kim Basinger is well-cast as a resourceful damsel-in-distress who thwarts her kidnappers by connecting with a n'er-do-well cell-phone user (Chris Evans, later seen in The Fantastic Four) who races against time to rescue her from afar. One good cop (William H. Macy) assembles clues to uncover conspiracy, while first-time writer Chris Morgan and pulp-movie master Larry Cohen (who conceived the plot, similar to his own Phone Booth screenplay) serve up a consistently satisfying string of high-tension surprises. Jason Statham continues to prove his rising-star status as the film's tenacious villain, and director David Ellis (Final Destination 2) takes advantage of his experience as a veteran stunt coordinator and second-unit director, making good use of locations in his native Santa Monica, and wringing credible suspense from a deliriously far-fetched premise. --Jeff Shannon
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Great Movie
I love this movie, Kim Basinger is great here I love her, the movie is very exciting also I like William H. Macy role, I highly recommend this movie.
Very clever plot, but far to be a classic!
This cunning script is real hook for the viewer. From the first shots, we feel that dark and unexplainable tension. The kidnapping does not make wait too long, and from that moment, the set up and edition process will play a very important role. Gradually a obscure web of corruption and power 's abuse will support a very entertained picture without major pretensions. That keeps its objective. Not a classic but, it will not let you down. Perhaps the artificial device of Macy in his unorthodox make up, contributes to work out as a divertimento inside the frenetic rhythm. On the other hand I watched to the always beauty and attractive Mrs. Bassinger, absolutely committed with the role. Well directorial effort
Don't Ever Call Me Again
From the trailer, Cellular looked intriguing. A kidnapped woman is able to fix a broken telephone to the point where she can make a call to an unknown person. My only problem is that I completely and utterly hate cell phone. Everyone I see yapping on the phone at the stoplight, grocery story, bathroom, and virtually everywhere else, I just want to scream "you are not that important that you need to contacted at any given moment." I only carry a cell phone when I drive just because my hoopie can give out on me at any given moment. So needless to say, I had a bias against the film going in.
The movie stars Kim Basinger, best known for Final Analysis, as the previously mention damsel in distress, while Chris Evans, who has such gems as Not Another Teen Movie and Fantastic Four on his resume, as the knight in shinning amour, except a sword he carries a cell phone that probably cost a couple hundred. Filling out the cast is William H Macy, challenging Samuel L Jackson for number of movies he's in regardless of quality, Jessica Biel as the token hot chick even though she rarely can fill the role properly, and Kim's husband is played by Susan Mayer's ex-husband.
There were plenty of plot holes throughout the movie, the one that bugged me the most was the school schedules in the movie. First the little kid gets out of school at 1:45, who actually get out that early. Then his mother is a high school science teacher, yet she has enough time to walk to him to the bus stop and take a shower, and still not be late for school herself. How much later does high school start after elementary school in California, in all the schools in my area, high school starts about an hour earlier? And speaking of the shower, why didn't the housekeeper answer the phone while Kim was in there and even is she isn't allowed to answer it, why didn't she her the warning message? But I did like how her science job helped her out later in the film.
The movie also falls flat when it tries to interject humor into the script. Kim's son having the same name as a cheesy singer just doesn't work and ruins the urgency of the moment and Evan's character being introduced as he was in a romantic comedy complete with a ex-girlfriend he wants to get back with and Stifler type sidekick also seems out of place too. There were even more scenes of this included in the deleted scenes including a token performance this time by G Love. The only thing that actually got me to chuckle was Macy's porn star mustache. The movie also utilizes everything that could wrong with cell phones, tunnels, running out of juice, crossing signals, the latter being the most entertaining which involves a evil LA lawyer.
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