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The Cell

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn
Directors: Tarsem Singh
Features: Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC

 Average Customer Rating: 3.08/5.00
Amazon Sales Rank: 8,254
Theatrical Release Date: 20000818
VHS Tape Release Date: 03 September, 2002
Manufacturer: New Line Studios
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)

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Number of VHS Tapes: 1
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Rating: 4 [ Music Video turned movie- but done suprisingly well. ]
Given, this movie can be directly compared to Silence of the Lambs (getting into the killers mind to find a missing person)it is still well done. Lopez wasn't fabulous- Vaughn wasn't either...but I suppose this film wasn't exactly about great acting- obviously more time was spent perfecting the visuals than the actual characters. Taking that into consideration and leaving flat performances aside- this movie is beautiful. Tarsem- whose experience in directing music videos shines through in the cell does a fine job in making a film that is basically disturbing eye candy... Compared to Natural Born Killers (another music video turned film)the Cell is much less annoying in its overuse of absurd visuals and much more effective.

If you are looking for plot- you won't find much here.

If you're looking for a visually stunning piece of art turned motion picture- you'll be happy.

The violence/disturbing images are outrageous- mouth watering even for fans of the wickedly gorey...

... and in the end you have a beautiful tapestry of cg fx, gorgeous scenery (from the open dessert, to D'Onafrio's hellish paradise), and a 100 + minute music video that is more than tolerable.

A director's cut would've been a nice suprise...


Rating: 4 [ Style doesn't triumph over substance--but what style! ]
The Cell is so visually and aurally overwhelming that it is easy to overlook the downside of the picture. First, I'd like to note the great things about the DVD: stunning picture; a beautifully reproduced Dolby soundtrack, which does full justice to Howard Shore's brilliant muscial score; a load of extra features, the kind that one has to come to expect from the "New Line Platinum Series" of DVD's.

Now to the great things about the movie: frankly I'm not sure. It's a puzzling experience. Jennifer Lopez does a very fine job, Vince Vaughn is Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio is brilliant (as always). But the script, what there is of it, is pretty much crap--remove the dream sequences, and it's a mediocre serial killer plot, with a pretty predictable resolution. In addition, some very serious scenes of child abuse are not treated with the kind of sensitivity they deserve. There is considerable lingering on perverse images. Some viewers can argue quite correctly that the dream sequences should be the kind of perverse images that Director Tarsem Singh creates, given that they occur insider the head of a very disturbed person. I guess, to a certain extent, I'm basing my views on this issue as a result of listening to Singh's commentary, where he makes it clear that if he had his way, the images would have been a lot more perverse.

Essentially, I agree with the semi-coherent commentary of Director Singh--if you buy the premise of the move as a visual, theatric, over-the-top operatic picture, then it works extremely well. If you don't buy this premise, you'll probably hate the move. For me, I ended up buying the premise, and in the terms of a visual and aural experience, the movies succeeds very well.

Re DVD extras, the cut scenes are interesting, albeit including one very disturbing one. Sing's commentary alternates between incoherent, juvenile ramblings/rantings, and occasional interesting insights. Singh's commentary is probably more disturbing than the movie. The commentary of the production team is worth much more, although a tad pretentious at points--style can be substance, I guess, but not in this movie.

Overall, please don't see this movie if you're looking for a brilliantly scripted, linear movie like Seven or Silence of the Lambs. This is truly a movie where substance is completely sacrificed to style, and it is, although strange, quite a trip on that level. Again, compliments to Lopez and D'Onofrio. Finally, as a demonstration of why DVD is so popular among movie buffs (picture, sound, extras), this disc has it all,


Rating: 3 [ Note to self: 'Don't ever watch this one on acid.' ]
The Profiler/Empath vs The Twisted Genius Serial Killer sweepstakes continues (Jonathan Demme, what hath thou wrought?!). Due to its stunning visual style, "The Cell" does manage to slightly edge out the other clone films that have spewed forth in Hannibal Lechter's wake. Jennifer Lopez (about as convincing as a psychologist/researcher as Raquel Welch was as a "scientist" in "Fantastic Voyage") helps the FBI race the clock and find a captured serial killer's imprisioned victim by means of an experimental device that puts her in the virtual reality of the comatose killer's psyche. As you can imagine, this is not exactly dinner with the Cleavers, and it is here that the movie's impressive, surrealistic visual imagination comes into play. Unfortunately,the script proceeds to trot out every predictable psycho-killer movie cliche,ruining any chance of true suspense or surprise. In the hands of a screenwriter like Michael Crichton, who virtually invented the "Medical Sci-Fi" genre ("Andromeda Strain", "Coma", "The Terminal Man"), this COULD have been a near classic. Instead, it's just a near-miss.