Cell (2016)
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
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Overrated and overhyped
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
I have not read the book, so I am not comparing this film to the book. It was just garbage, there were 3 endings, what was that all about. What triggered this event, why was every dreaming the same dream. Maybe I just did not get it, or perhaps I was distracted by the bloody pigeon that has fallen down the chimney. Damn racket!
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."
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!
What a terrible movie! The novel is at best what I call "junk food Stephen King", but there's a place in the world for junk food. Even a mediocre King novel is worth your time. But this film? No redeeming qualities whatsoever. Awful script, terrible cinematography, waste of three great actors (John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Stacey Keach), putrid CGI, well, you get the picture. Did anyone involved even open up the book, let alone read it? Avoid this movie like the plague.