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The Cell
Directed by
Tarsem Singh
R
2000
1h 47m
Horror
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Science Fiction
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6.4
46%
57%
6.3
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An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.
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Cast of The Cell
Jennifer Lopez
Catherine Deane
Vince Vaughn
Peter Novak
Vincent D'Onofrio
Carl Rudolph Stargher
Catherine Sutherland
Anne Marie Vicksey
James Gammon
Teddy Lee
Colton James
Edward Baines
Dylan Baker
Henry West
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Dr. Miriam Kent
Gerry Becker
Dr. Barry Cooperman
Musetta Vander
Ella Baines
Patrick Bauchau
Lucien Baines
Jake Weber
Gordon Ramsey
Dean Norris
Cole
Tara Subkoff
Julia Hickson
Lauri Johnson
Mrs. Hickson
John Cothran
Agent Stockwell
Jack Conley
Agent Brock
Kamar de los Reyes
Officer Alexander
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Dr. Reid
Peter Sarsgaard
Julia Hickson's Fiancee (uncredited)
The Cell Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Jake Cole
The film at times feels like an assembly of images that strives primarily for visceral impact, throwing cohesiveness to the wind.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Ultimately, the reliance on a dream world tends to reduce suspense and even narrative logic. Thus, everything is possible and nothing is necessary.
Slate
David Edelstein
The Cell is pretty silly. But I admired its cinematic ambition until the final scenes.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
The summer's silliest cinematic experience has to be The Cell, ostensibly a slightly futuristic serial killer movie but, subtextually, a commercial for the Saatchi collection.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Like [anyone's] imagination, the movie's landscape is littered with half-remembered pop artifacts... what's different is that Tarsem, a commercial and video director here making his feature debut, sticks the protagonists in a garden of unearthly delights.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The deeper the movie goes into its characters' heads, the more it finds shallow, familiar scenes of sexual domination and submission
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
If you thought virtual-reality thrillers and spin-offs of The Silence of the Lambs had run their course, guess again.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Almost worth seeing because there's nothing else like it, it's also easy to wish there never will be again.
Associated Press
David Germain
It's hard to avoid an acute case of gag reflex sitting through a feature film's worth of ponderous pomp that amounts to little more than one long TV commercial for itself.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
A movie with no plot, no logic, no meaning.
CNN.com
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
What can you expect in The Cell? Operatic visuals, a beautiful Lopez, great acting by Vaughn and D'Onofrio and an extremely sick storyline that will make you squirm in your seat.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Tarsem uses the dramatically shallow plot to create a dream world densely packed with images of beauty and terror that cling to the memory even if you don't want them to.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
Gives imaginative and visual shape to as it were the very soul of misogynism, perversion, depravity, sadism, and the supreme nihilism and egotism of the damned.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
There is an emotional vacuum at the center of this picture.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the best films of the year.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
If looks could kill, this would be the best movie of the summer. But beneath the considerable eye candy, The Cell is an awfully generic variation on the overworked serial-killer genre.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Director of commercials and music videos Tarsem Singh is like a toddler at Christmas: He's far more interested in messing about with the pretty, shiny wrapping than he is with the actual toys themselves.
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
[The visuals are] just enough to recommend a movie that otherwise has nothing new to offer.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
[Singh has] made a schlocky dud for the ages, one that seems preoccupied with subverting megaplex expectations.
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