The Worst Film Ever

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

CELL is the big-screen adaptation of one my least favourite Stephen King novels. I do like the subject of zombies but in the hands of King they ended up being ridiculous. This film version gets rid of some of the dumber elements from the novel - the levitation scenes, for example - but is still in no way good. Things are at their best in the early outbreak scene, which suffers from shaky camera syndrome a bit but is generally exciting if you can ignore the odd dodgy CGI shot of an exploding plane and the like. John Cusack, looking tired and bloated, is a poor choice of lead, while Samuel L. Jackson is purely on autopilot here and has none of the fire-and-brimstone charisma you see from him elsewhere. The film gets worse as it goes along, lacking suspense and saddled with unlikeable characters and cliched situations, until it ends on a scene which made me laugh out loud at the inept cheapness of it all.

Most peoples mobile phones emit a signal that make them go crazy.I read the book sometime ago and wasn't particularly impressed. It has a fairly good premise but Stephen King can never resist a show down with a literal bogey man that just makes things ridiculous.This film is OK. I don't think it deserves as many 1*s as it got, but if you were looking forward to seeing this I can see why people were disappointed. Being forewarned by all the bad reviews I wasn't expecting much.Everything about this film is below average from acting, to script to camera work. But it is ok to watch.The story is pretty silly and futile. As things progress it is hard to tell where the characters are going, or why, or why some people are affected and others not.

Look, this movie is not good. However, it being as bad as it is doesn't bother me all that much, maybe because it's the kind of bad that must've been so obvious to everyone involved, but the consensus was to still release it because hey, it wasn't "produced" for free and money doesn't grow on trees.I don't even think Samuel L. Jackson acknowledges this film.You have Cusack figuring out that the mania is caused by phones in like, immediately. The head master has well, mastered these "foners/phoners" in like, immediately. You have Cusack's interpretation of these "phoners" as them being linked to some kind of organic network??? What? How is that your first conclusion... At least pretend that you think zombies exist before making such an accurate assessment. Damn Cusack.Perhaps I shouldn't even talk about that CG... I don't know.Then we have the how easily the "heroes" choose to kill/burn these things, before even at least trying to have a conversation on whether or not it's possible to save them... Just a conversation guys, we're not asking you go out and actually do it.How about that conversation Samuel and Cusack had on; "How did they all know where we were that fast"? Firstly, honestly, I don't even understand that question. What does the "fastness" of it have to do with anything? Also, I don't know Samuel, I'll take a SHOT in the dark, unlike you who took it in broad daylight and say; "Uhm, you shot a rifle, they heard it, they saw you".And should we talk about that ending? Truthfully, if we did, I wouldn't know what to say. 3.5/10.P.S. Cell isn't necessarily bad, well I mean it's bad, it really is, but, it's not bad perhaps, more than it is clearly incomplete, and that's well, bad.

Even though the plot was bad, I thought the movie was decent, considering it was mediocre. HOWEVER, the ending was EXTREMELY confusing! Did the protagonist kill the red hoodie man? Did he fail? Did he survive? Did he AND his son live? I was very befuddled by the ending and I wish the ending was more meticulous.