The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

When a tone/message from mobile phones - sorry, cellphones - has the effect of rebooting the listener's brain (which means nearly everyone) and turning them into ravening zombies, Clay decides to go looking for his son, picking up other survivors on the way.John Cusack, Sam Jackson, the wonderful Isabelle Fuhrman, a Stephen King story driven by action and event - what could go wrong?This movie, basically. The book, to be fair, was never one of my favourite King offerings - it just didn't work for me. I found it far too generic a zombie-world offering and the characters did little to live in my memory.The film takes that and doesn't so much add nothing, it (unbelievably) reduces it. So what we have is a film which is largely jittercam zombie-avoidance. Which wears thin pretty quickly, particularly as there has been so very, very much of it in recent years.I can't think of a reason for saying "Go and see this film."

This review contains spoilers.Cell is directed by Tod Williams from the Paranormal Activity movie series. It stars John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, and Isabelle Fuhrman as apocalypse survivors. A mysterious signal hits every cellular device causing its victims to devolve to their base instincts. This causes modern society to crumble as much of the population is connected at the time of the event known as The Pulse. Clay Riddell, played by John Cusack, is one of the survivors of the event and he embarks on a journey to find his loved ones. Alice, an upstairs neighbor, and Tom, a subway driver join him in his trek.Cell has numerous problems as a movie. The immediate problem with the movie is its technical incompetence. The movie has poor CGI effects and some of the most jarring editing. The scene transitions are accompanied by the strange music choices. One of these bizarre technical choice s is at the introduction of the movie with large black bars with text that block up most of the screen to introduce credits. The movie cuts in ways that do not make sense. After The Pulse is triggered, Clay is chased by phoners. One of them tackles Clay and then the movie transitions to Clay getting up easily with the phoner nowhere to be found. The effects in general are also fake looking and whenever gore is shown, it is incredibly obvious that it is an effect. The violence in the movie is also tame. Another strange moment is when Clay is driving into Kashak and the movie plays intense music and cuts to ducks in a pond.The antagonistic phoners in this movie are a source of unintentional comedy. From the beginning with the airport sequence, the strange behavior of the phoners can be seen. The audience can see some of them dangcing while others attack the normies. The movie cuts to a clip of a phoner foaming on a toilet. When the phoners chase Alice, Clay, and Tom through a forest one of them only has a tennis racquet and underwear. One of the phoners even runs into a tree despite the movie establishing that they have created a hive mind. Another scene has a large group of phoners pack themselves into a football field to switch off. The group then plays the viral video song, Trololo, as they sleep. In many moments, the phoners have a white noise effect in their speech which adds to the unintentional hilarity. These are noth the only scenes that rae strange and to see more, one can watch the movie.The plot of the movie is inconsistent. The movie hints at the Raggedy Man's influence on the group and remaining humans. At the end, it appears it was all a construct of Clay Riddell's mind. The movie constantly pulls the audience in these circles, but ultimately comes back to Clay's story. The Raggedy man and his flock of phoners are some of the best unintentional comedy I have seen. The phoners typically run around in circle when they are idling. They also communicate through digital warble that simply has to be experienced.The main cast is horribly misused. John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson are great in 1408 but in this movie they are ineffective. Likewise Isabelle Fuhrman is not used well here. The actors do not have any stand out moments. All of their dialogue is generally bland. None of this is the cast's fault as I believe they had executed the script to the best of their ability. The main faults that caused the disaster are the poor writing, directing, and editing. The choices in this movie are baffling.Cell is a terrible movie. Unless you are interested in an unintentionally funny movie, I do not recommend viewing it.

There was a time when the Dracula movies were the rage. Now we are in a zombie movie period. This zombie one reminds the 70s film Invasion of the body snatchers. Today, we don't waste time on details in movies, we go right to the gruesome. In any case, this was a not so new take. Too psychopathic and a bit ridiculous in how cruel zombies and anti-zombies are. Felt like english vs indians. Good last line though: "we're going to Canada". But please, don't come here!

However, seeing that Sam L Jackson was second billing, I gave it a chance even with the low IMDb rating. I don't understand what happened. The movie was actually not too bad until it got to the end. Did they lose the Stephen King book they borrowed the story from? Granted, I never read this one, but King doesn't write disjointed drivel. And the last quarter of this film was drivel. The story began dropping connection about as bad as these cellular zombies. I understand that the Ice Cream Truck was a mobile bomb intended to take out some "Mother Cell Tower" that droves of these cellular zombies were doing laps around. And the number on the cell phone that the head- bomber gave Cusack was a detonator trigger. But WTF was the ending? Did the cell tower go down or not. We see Cusack, the son, and the cell tower being consumed in a virtual mushroom cloud. But then we see Cusack and his boy walking the railroadtracks following the the TJD markings on the trees. Then we see cellular zombie Cusack jogging laps around the cell tower with the rest of the hoard. Was this whole movie supposed to be a story in his head? If so WHO put it there? And how? Son of a bitch. I really hate a movie that isn't too bad through most of it, but then it seems as though the writers smoked some poisoned crack and died so the director gathered various ideas from the film crew on how to end the film, but decided each of the three ideas were so kick-ass they put them all in and let the viewer figure it out....or drive them absolutely bat-schidt insane. F#©k this movie. F#©k the cast. And f#©k the idiot producers and directors. Go eat a big cargo freighter full of rubber dog schidt from North Korea!