Wonderful Movie

Simply A Masterpiece

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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. Cellular has some great full of suspense action sequences and lots of chases on foot or with cars. The perfomances from Chris Evans, Kim Basinger and Jason Statham are top notch and the interactions on the phone between the 2 leads were powerful enough for me to care about them and their survival as characters overall also there's some great humor and i loved the end credits style too, fans of the Cast and people who like action thrillers won't be disappointed. (10/10)

Cellular (2004): Dir: David R. Ellis / Cast: Chris Evans, Kim Basinger, William H. Macy, Jason Statham, Eric Christian Olsen: Contrived piece of crap about distance. Rushed premise has Kim Basinger abducted and locked in an attic where the phone is shattered. She manages to patch things together enough to send a random call out, which is received by Chris Evans. Now he must reach her son before the kidnappers do. Filled with any possible annoying tactic to slow him down until it reaches a mindless climax. Director David R. Ellis does his best with the flimsy material but it has all the life of an episode of T.J. Hooker. Listening to a seminar on how to put batteries into things is more entertaining than this contrived piece of junk. Evans does his best with the annoying inconveniences that his role requires to go through. Basinger does little more than scream into the phone. If that is the case, then I hope her agent is on the other end. William H. Macy is another decent actor given the standard police detective role where everything depends on him avoiding idiotic plot contrivances. Jason Statham basically looks intimidating, but then again, he probably realizes that this garbage won't be up for any awards thus lessening his chances for better roles. There is little if anything original in this formula driven crap so viewers are advised to disconnect. Score: 2 / 10

Somewhat disappointing thriller. Let's start with acting.Chris Evans was OK as this kid who gets a cell phone call and decides he's finally going to think about somebody other than himself. He does OK, nothing great.Kim Basinger did her best to carry her part, but really, all she was asked to do was cringe and cower and cry and get beaten up. Really not much depth in her character.Jason Statham plays a snarly bad guy who likes smashing things and people, and talking cute before he bashes you in the mouth. SOP for him, so nothing special.William Macy saves what little day there was in this movie by his excellent job as a long-in-the-tooth cop who is on his last roundup and wants to go quietly into the Spa business until this case pulls him in. Kind of like that moving Michael Douglass, against the cop Robert Duvall in Falling Down. Anyhow, love Macy.The plot is somewhat OK - you keep wondering why are these guys doing this. They you find out. Then all sorts of chase scenes happen and the movie ends. OK, not much there. A lot of chase scenes and talking on the cell phone. made in Hollywood, by Hollywood.so so, IMHO. I like Evans much more as Captain America later on in his movie career. Enjoy.

It's rare when I movie is so bad that I don't watch the entire thing. I realize there has to be some level of stupidity on the part of some characters to make a situation last long enough to be a movie rather than a clip. However the first twenty minutes of Cellular proved that not only were all the characters stupid in behavior, the acting was horrible, there were way too many convenient consequences for the character Ryan, and too many unbelievable situations (anyone in southern California will tell you how rare it is to find a parking spot right in front of every building you go to!) Although I didn't watch the entire movie I seriously doubt if it could have morphed into something remotely enjoyable or entertaining in it's last 75 minutes. I do believe it would be a perfect choice for the peanut gallery wisecracks of MST 3000.