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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
Box Office: $17,515,050
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
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Starting off as a lurid rip-off of "Silence of the Lambs," the movie eventually ...becomes a sometimes startling parade of nightmare sequences, most of which involve Lopez sashaying around in costumes designed to show off her well-toned physique.
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.
The film's visuals are stunning, even lovely at times, as long as you can ignore their depravity.
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One of the most visually stunning films I have ever seen.
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All the clever visual effects in the world can't hide the fact that this is just a nasty piece about women in torment.
There are those who will hate it, but hating it is a reaction to its subject matter -- not its accomplishment as a step into an adventurous movie landscape.
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…it reminds one of the works of Clive Barker: strange, horrible and utterly unnerving.
OK, class...again. 'Visually cool, but a really weak script.' Very good!
This was on my top ten list for the year, but it's not for everyone.
There's much to criticize, even despise, about this movie. But there's no disputing the mesmerizing power of the images.
as flashy and visually inventive as the film is, its greater importance lies in the way it explores the duality of serial killers in a way most films won't dare.
I can't remember the last time I was so impressed by a film as seriously flawed as The Cell.
Once in a while a movie comes along that is so visually stunning it tends to carry you away with it, even if the story and the acting don't measure up to those amazing pictures. The Cell is just such a movie.
A kind of Vulcan mind-meld, but 100-times cooler.
From the gorgeously haunting opening credits to the redemptive ending, The Cell sets new boundaries in extreme filmmaking.
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Whereas The Matrix's visuals were almost always in service of the story, the images here are merely trailer-fodder to draw in ticket buyers.
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