If Cellular were an actual telephone, it would work about as well as two tin cans and string.
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09/10/04
Cellular (2004)
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Reviews Counted:147
Fresh:79
Rotten:68
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Contrived but energetic B-movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The very definition of a "taut" thriller, this suspense yarn scripted by Larry Cohen (PHONE BOOTH) aims straight for the adrenaline glands and never lets go. A lazy beach bum named Ryan (Chris... [More]
Starring: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy
Director: David R. Ellis
Reviews for Cellular
Credibility is never the movie's strong suit, but it does have a good-natured, B-movie attitude that keeps it watchable, and announces that Cellular does not want to be taken too seriously.
09/10/04
Ellis manages a few sudden shocks, but he and the editors never discovered the secret of ratcheting up suspense.
09/10/04
The movie has more flawed logic, lame coincidences and plot holes than the average cell phone has ring tones.
09/10/04
The story moves briskly, the action is pulse-charging, and the laughs are many.
09/10/04
Cellular is the year's first feel-good thriller.
09/10/04
Highly improbable, maniacally action-packed.
09/10/04
There is nothing more to the movie than the usual thrills.
09/10/04
A well-detailed, fevered fantasy of how one sunny day in L.A. can go terribly, entertainingly wrong.
09/10/04
A goofy thriller that unfolds on a planet that looks like Earth but that operates by a completely different set of rules.
09/10/04
Belief... getting... too hard... to suspend... can't... hang on...
09/10/04
Logic has nothing to do with Cellular, but it's so quick-moving and fun we don't care.
09/10/04
Now you might think there'd be at least a few chills in such a dire predicament, but -- several car chases, a bunch of dirty cops and any number of bogus plot twists later -- you'd be proved wrong.
09/10/04
We're sorry, but you have reached a movie that is disconnected from reality and is no longer of service to anyone.
09/10/04
Top CriticComes fully charged if just a little bit silly, a wham-bam action flick with no pretense and plenty of fun.
09/10/04
You'd be able to laugh the whole thing off if it weren't so mean-spirited at times.
09/10/04
It isn’t terrible, even if there are too many moments that rely on the central characters being either extremely stupid or unforgivably forgetful.
09/10/04
Schlocky and shallow, but it's also the most invigoratingly fun, swift-moving and seamlessly plotted action movie to come along since Speed.
09/10/04
The true beauty of this film is how the dramatic tension builds to almost unbearable levels, only to be snapped by a bit of humor, and then over and over takes up once again.
09/10/04
Top CriticThis is one of the year's best thrillers. Better than Phone Booth, for my money, and I liked that, too.
09/10/04
Top CriticLatest News for Cellular
July 20, 2007:
Larry Cohen Plans Remakes of It's Alive, Black Caesar, and The Stuff
Long before he wrote movies like "Phone Booth," "Cellular," and (ugh) "Captivity," filmmaker Larry Cohen was making horror movies about killer babies. And (guess what?) he just... More...
February 14, 2007:
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