Best movie of this year hands down!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Let me preface this by saying that I was pleasantly surprised by this film. I went in expecting a thriller, not a horror, and it actually quenched my expectations fully and with a little bit of horror tossed in on the side it made for a pleasant viewing. And from the reviews on this site I honestly wasn't expecting too much. But I've experienced this kind of incongruity on IMDb time and time again. Great film, terrible reviews.I'll start with it's strongest point which is the story. The story is absolutely fantastic and was presented almost flawlessly. You can feel the misdirection, as thick as arctic sea smoke, which is the key signature to a thriller's atmosphere. It'll start asking you questions that you didn't even know you wanted to ask. There was not a single moment when I felt I knew exactly what was going to happen next and yet everything was still easy to follow which, IMHO, is where most films (in this genre especially) go wrong. Even to the very end you're still asking questions but if you payed even a modicum of attention you'll understand everything just fine.The acting was decent. Some parts were a little weaker than others mostly due to underacting in a few scenes that involve gore/action, which detracted from the experience but considering that we're not talking about million dollar A list actors the performances passed my own personal 'litmus test' and I consider it quite nominal. One scene in particular will linger in my mind as the most outrageous and yet most underacted scene in film history due mostly to the writing rather than acting oddly enough. Came across a boorish sight gag to me.Cinematography and editing was well done. The special effects and CG left something to be desired but I'm sure it was a matter left to budget rather than talent or design/concept.Don't follow the 'advice' of the other reviewers. This film is much more than the poor (and poorly written) reviews it's received thus far. Watch it and expect an independent film that will delivers a clever story not as a premium blockbuster the AAA studios churn out.

A man and a woman check into a facility that offers them a cure for a mysterious plague-like disease that's ravaging the planet. But not everything is as it seems and soon they have to fight for their lives.Obviously, this movie has borrowed a lot from David Cronenberg's early films, like Rabid. But where Cronenberg's movies are worth watching because of the multiple layers of the plot, Cell Count is as flat as a pancake. It tries very hard to be something it's not.While a movie like Cube uses its low budget to its advantage, the direction and script of Cell Count are hopelessly incapable of creating any suspense at all. The unknown cast isn't half that bad, but the script gives them very little depth. Some of the dialog is seriously laughable, like the speech the doctor gives to the husband in the beginning of the movie asking him (with the usual thick German accent of every mad scientist) if he wants to see his wife die in pain and vomit or if he wants to save her. Most of the movie's events don't make any sense at all (SPOILER) like when the doctor releases a psychopath on the ward, or leaves a patient who's having an attack lying on the floor to suffer, just to study the psychological effects. Or the fact that a highly secretive facility owned by a big corporation has only one nurse and one guard. In fact, the entire movie you're waiting for the pieces of the puzzle to fit together. Except, they never do. The serious lack of humor isn't helping either.After 45 minutes, the movie seems to pick up the pace, but the director obviously thought it was a good idea to film every climactic scene in slow-motion and without sound, except for the (decent) score. After using this trick for the third time, it just gets annoying. (SPOILER): At the end of the movie, we're treated to Daniel Baldwin, who comes to save the day. And then it just ends in the middle of the story, making room for a sequel that no-one in their right mind would want to see.I gave Cell Count a chance based on the very cool movie poster that seems to be inspired by exploitation movies from the late 70's, early 80's. I should've remembered that in the early days of VHS, the covers usually promised more than they could deliver. As is the case with Cell Count. My advise: avoid this one, like the plague.

I like the poster, but it promises something that this movie does not deliver. The movie is very slow, almost like an art-house movie. But it isn't one.It's very boring for the first twenty minutes. And just when you think that is going to change........it doesn't. It's not scary at all, and it has some really old stereotypical characters (like a doctor with a German accent)I managed to sit through the first 45 minutes of it, i should get a medal for that. I've given it more then one chance. But it was all just a disappointment. The actors did their best (the main characters, i believed in their fictional marriage)but when you have a script this bad that doesn't help much. I will not remember this film for very long. It made absolutely no impact.

The movie sounds promising, it looks promising and it disappoints about as much as a movie possibly could. The first 20 minutes had me on the edge of my seat, not because it was exciting, but because I really thought it would be a good movie.Then it got progressively worse until the very end. The only thing I can praise is the half decent acting and the extremely promising premise. Everything else is awful, what really got to me and what inspired me to write this, my first review on IMDb, was the plot. It's as if someone, after the first few minutes, came in with a hammer and started bashing the writer slowly but surely until at the end of the script he'd simply lost the capacity to write a coherent story. I don't want to go in to too much detail beyond that because the movie simply does not deserve it.Avoid!