While the optics are indeed bold and imaginative, they are overdone and what's more, Vincent D'Onofrio ... is not at all frightening this time around.
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The Cell (2000)
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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:63
Rotten:76
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: The Cell offers disturbing, stunning eye candy, but it is undermined by a weak and shallow plotline that offers nothing new.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A wild ride inside the mind of a serial killer, THE CELL is a movie that leads viewers on a strange visual and psychological journey. Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is a child therapist working... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Director: Tarsem Singh
Reviews for The Cell
The Cell has virtually nothing on its mind but showcasing its sumptuous, year's-best production design, fine special effects, and demented sensibility.
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[Singh] sketches his central characters thinly, and he ends the film on a slightly confusing note.
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The Cell becomes the first serial killer feature in a long time to take the genre in a new direction.
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Taken on its own boldly visual terms, The Cell can be enjoyed as a stroll through a contemporary museum of your purplest imaginings.
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The Cell is far from a perfect movie. But it is the creepiest one I've seen since The Sixth Sense.
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The Cell spends most of its time trying to live up to its dazzling visuals. It never quite does, although it and Jennifer Lopez are quite an eyeful.
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Rendered in an ultimately hollow style that can't conceal the story flaws, of which there are many.
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While the level of imagination impressed me I was repulsed by what it was applied to.
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For me, The Cell was simply too much.
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Ultimately succumbs to the old style over substance syndrome that often afflicts directors who cut their directorial teeth on flashy music videos and TV commercials.
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Sets a new standard for moviemakers.
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...none of the movie's visuals, beautiful or ugly, add up to anything.
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The Cell would be a shoo-in for a Best Eye Candy nomination this year.
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I felt like I was in solitary confinement.
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All torture, all the time, all photographed (by Paul Laufer) and production designed (by Tom Foden) as if it were a TV spot for Chanel.
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Top CriticIt's magnificent to look at, but at the half way mark the visuals get so far out they cease to serve the sketchy story.
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Had Tarsem stuck a Chanel bag or bottle of Calvin Klein perfume into the picture, he'd have ruined nothing.
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Beneath the considerable eye candy ... The Cell is an awfully generic variation on the overworked serial-killer genre.
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The costumes are phenomenal, the set design ravishing and the sadistic inventiveness extraordinary; it's a shame it's all harnessed to a clichéd story.
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