The Cell Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
This Summer... Enter The Mind Of A Killer
enter the mind of a killer
Once you enter the mind of a killer, YOU MAY NEVER GET OUT!
His Mind Is Her Prison.
Can beauty tame the beast?
Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.
| Jennifer Lopez | Catherine Deane |
| Vince Vaughn | FBI Agent Peter Novak |
| Colton James | Edward Baines |
| Dylan Baker | Henry West |
| Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Dr. Miriam Kent |
| Vincent D'Onofrio | Carl Rudolph Stargher |
| Jake Weber | FBI Special Agent Gordon Ramsey |
| Patrick Bauchau | Lucien Baines |
| Gerry Becker | Dr. Barry Cooperman |
| Tara Subkoff | Julia Hickson |
| Catherine Sutherland | Anne Marie Vicksey |
| Jake Thomas | Young Carl Stargher |
| Dean Norris | FBI Agent Cole |
| John Cothran Jr. | FBI Agent Stockwell |
| Jack Conley | FBI Agent Brock |
| Tarsem Singh |
6.10 out of 10 (25060 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Steals quite a bit from 'Dreamscape.' (minor spoilers)
posted on 30 Aug 2009I think all the hurrah for The Cell was really because of fantastic digital special effects. Granted, I'll give the filmmakers credit for that. The story on the other hand was not really something I enjoyed. I felt like it was something where you were being forced to believe something, forced to concentrate on something, without giving a whole lot of reason why. One of those stories that take forever to get off the ground and try to build up way too much to justify itself that in the end, the whole complex mess finishes in a completely confusing or disastrous ending.Not to mention it stars a cast that I just can't take seriously. Plus, I didn't appreciate them stealing much of the storyline (and even some of the sequences) from the 1984 sci-fi adventure, 'Dreamscape,' (starring Dennis Quaid and Christopher Plummer). Since about a billion people have commented on this movie already, I just have a brief plot synopsis: a profiler/scientist goes inside the mind of a killer to find out where his last victim is. Yeah, another one of those.
Divided We Fall
posted on 26 Aug 2009Interesting how much of the public seems to be divided on this film. Half seem to love it, half seem to hate it. With commercialism hitting the music industry hard, it was only a matter of time until we could see a great example of it in Hollywood. The only thing worse than watching people with no talent, but great image, being iconized by media jackals (news as entertainment, MTVedia, bloated recording industry), was watching this movie.Complete fluff from beginning to end. Lame story, lame (i.e. mindless) visuals (most of you seem to think they were "stunning, spell-binding, etc." but they were just colorful and basically unrelated to the movie - Hmmmm, let's put in a chopped up horse part - yes, that would be cool). Remember, most of the public isn't used to seeing film as art, but film as entertainment.In a society where a person's content no longer matters, but visuals do (clothing, breast implants, lip jobs, hair style, SUV paint-job) it is no surprise to see a movie with such little content, be hailed as it has.Let the productization of America continue!
Bizarre and Strange, but in a good way
posted on 26 Aug 2009The Cell: ****"The Cell" is a bizarre trip into the mind of a serial killer. Catharine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is a child psychiatrist who can go into the minds of coma victims. Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a serial killer who turns his victims into dolls. Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) is a detective look for Carl Strargher. When Strargher is diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia, he goes into a coma. Novak needs to figure out where he is keeping his latest victim. He confronts Deane and asks her to go into his mind. She agrees and enters his mind to find the victim."The Cell" is visually stunning, suspenseful and smart. Lopez's acting is very good. She can act scared very well. But, we already knew that because of "Anaconda." D'Onofrio is a very creepy guy. He handles this role well because of his odd looks and creepy motions. "The Cell" is brilliant in it's own odd way. It takes you up and down, right and left, and sideways. The special effects are great. They help the story move right along. The visions are scary, but intriguing. The movie is all around brilliant.
A desperate reliance on pretty photography
posted on 16 Aug 2009Alas, it can't save this lump of tedium. Long periods of inertness alternate with the actors' embarrassed wait for some cue from the director as to what the scenes are supposed to be about. They're about top-notch film processing, ultimately. Plus showy costume design. Nothing feels thought out to the length of a feature film.The Cell would have made an obscure commercial. No real harm was done and no real talents were wasted. Jennifer Lopez projects her usual mumbly torpor. Vince Vaughn is tall and underdirected. Vincent D'Onofrio has wandered into this movie from a bathhouse revue and queens around in gowns and pancake makeup like a 300-pound Mame.
Special effects have replaced plot lines!!!!
posted on 08 Aug 2009I was looking forward to seeing this movie because Roger Ebert held it in such high acclaim. He thought it was one of the three best movies of the year. I got 30 minutes into the movie and was surprised to find that the dialogue was shallow and boring, the acting was flat, and the plot line was a potentially good story gone wrong.The imagery was beautiful and creative but the story lacked depth. All these new movies are spending too much time on developing the special effects and they're forgetting that the plot is what makes the viewers lean forward in their seats. Unfortunately, many people go for this easy to understand, simple minded, type of movie and that's why so many more ofthese movies are being made.
A good, original and useless video clip
posted on 06 Aug 2009The Indian American Tarsem Singh is well known in the video clip art world.
This well directed film with high impact images is centered in a serial killer who is based in an industrial area with water tanks like aquarium and the victims are left into an empty tub which is filled in up to the final drowning. The problem raises when the last victim is being left in the tub and the serial killer, which meanwhile has been found, became in coma. The only way to save the victim's life is to experiment the recent scientific achievement of entering into the subconscious of the killer to get details of his traumas, solve it and hopefully obtain tools to know where the victim is hidden. The trip scenes from one body to another reminds the well achieved science fiction film "Innerspace" by Joe Dante. Film tries to be deep: dream images with dusty paths, the hiding-place is like a terror museum with puppets, the tub, the vital fluid and the holy water basin tries to explain the origin of the life flashbacking to the killer's infancy.
The drowning of the victims is revealed partially in the trauma of the baptism. Some scenes are crude like the one where his body is suspended by chains fixed in the flesh. Images when the psychiatric operator (Jennifer Lopez) is ferried into the killer's body are like the best video clip ever seen.
Colours are well marked but the result is a poor commercial film with beautiful images and a sensual Jennifer lopez, that does not explore further into the killer's mind and gets particularly benefit of the popularity of Jennifer Lopez and the "serial killer's film wave" oughting to be a blockbuster.Rating: 5/10
not pleased
posted on 25 Jul 2009The Cell: The bad news...a serial killer has just captured his latest victim. He's imprisoned her in his holding cell and if the FBI don't get her in a certain time frame she will be drown. The good news? The FBI have just caught the killer. The bad news? He's in a coma and they don't know where the woman is being held. The good news? A Psychologist (Jennifer Lopez) is part of a team which has developed a means to send a doctor inside the brain of comotose patients to assist in their regaining consciousness. The bad news? She's never been inside the brain of a killer before. It is an interesting concept, though it strikes heavily the memories of Dream Scape from the early 80s. Unfortunately they don't build any tension or interest in the characters. Instead the director relies heavily on the computer and ends up making a twisted art film.
Girlfriend in a coma.
posted on 19 Jul 2009Silence Of The Lambs meets Dreamscape in this slick, sick sci-fi/horror which stars J-Lo as Catherine Deane, a psychologist who enters the mind of comatose serial killer Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) in an attempt to discover the whereabouts of his latest victim, Anne Marie Vicksey, who is trapped in a glass room that is slowly filling with water.When Catherine runs into trouble whilst inside Stargher's twisted subconscious world, FBI agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) plunges himself into the nightmare in an attempt to save her.As far as dazzling eye candy is concerned, The Cell is a real winner: packed with arresting cinematography, surrealist effects, striking set design, and incredibly creative costumes, the film is simply stunning to look at and, for this reason alone, is well worth checking out. It's a shame, however, that The Cell's intriguing storyline isn't quite as polished as the visuals.Certain aspects of the story are handled extremely well, such as the abduction and plight of Anne Marie and Stargher's perverted treatment of his victims' bodies, but other areas of the plot make little sense or feel under-developed: Catherine saving Stargher's inner child seems ultimately rather pointless (he's a serial killer; he dies; so who cares); Novak hints at a troubled childhood, but we never learn what it is that happened to him; and the FBI agent's realisation that he knows how to locate Ann-Marie is way too sudden.As far as the performances go, Lopez and Vaughn are adequate, but it is D'Onofrio who steals the show, both as the 'real-life' lank-haired killer (who gets his kicks by suspending himself above his victims' bleached corpses and having a quick hand shandy whilst watching them die on video), and his wicked dream persona—a decadent, sniggering demi-god in a freaky world of his own making.
Please....stop the comparisons. Treat it as an individual movie.
posted on 09 Jul 2009Not all movies are created to be warm, fluffy, standardized and sedated Hollywood stereotypes. I for one found this movie almost completely different to everything else I have seen in, well, a long time. When was the last time you saw a horror movie that showed some seriously disturbing s***?Instead of the Urban Legend-ish "ooh scary. An axe in the head for half a second", we got ourselves some scenes that really freak you out and make you feel sick (the point of these movies, perhaps?). My favourite including the good old slow-mo close up shot of someone's face screaming in agony as their intestines are pulled out by a crazy guy prancing, giggling, and clapping around him. Sick and crazy - as it should be.The characters were simple, because most people are simple. Catherine and Peter never got together, because that's what normally happens. They knew each other for less than a day, were a bit attracted, fantasized a bit, and then left. It was better than some crappy-20-minute-emotional-outburst-where-the-two-lead-characters-reveal-the ir-deepest-secrets-and-fall-in-love-2/3-of-the-way-through-on-the-first-day- they've-ever-met (geez, like we don't have enough of that already). I know it did have a bit of this, but at least it was kept to a minimum.And please, enough with the movie comparisons. You people praise stuff like The Green Mile, despite it being exactly the same as everything else, but the moment a serial killer movie comes out that's not a revelation in cinema, it's all "tries to be Seven" this, and "Silence of the Lambs wannabe" that. This movie is outstandingly different in that it had a simple goal - look good and freak people out, which it did, very well. I thought it was one of the most satisfying movies I've seen in a long time.
Wow, Horrifyingly disgusting and mesmerizingly beautiful
posted on 05 Jul 2009This is definitely one of the most intense, disgusting, intriguing, disturbing, beautiful and truly scary films I've ever seen.Jennifer Lopez, a social worker, uses virtual reality to heal her patients. The FBI uses her to get into the minds of a serial killer. Her task turns from detective work to mothering as she feels sorrow for the serial killer's troubled childhood. There are moments during this film when I wanted to get up and leave because visually I was too overwhelmed. There were times in the script that seemed unfulfilled. The acting, too seemed unsatisfying at times. But nevertheless the quality of the art direction, cinematography, story and terror is truly unique and magical. I highly recommend this film.
Most laughable moment...
posted on 05 Jul 2009Pychotherapist enters patients mind is a good theme from Science Fiction, reasonably well executed here. Mixing it up with "Silence of the Lambs" style serial killer schlock was gratuitous. Agree with all the comments about the visual delights of the cinematography.The only disturbing aspect of the violent images, is how little I cared. Either the Director failed to solicit any sympathy for the victims, or I'm suffering severe compassion fatigue.Most laughable moment occurs in the climactic scene when the Detective is about to rescue the drowning woman from a large glass tank. Instead of getting on with the job of smashing the tank, he holds his FBI badge up against the glass. Like she was going check his credentials?!?
Boring one moment, a painful headache the next.
posted on 21 Jun 2009Catherine enters the minds of people to heal wounds from their past. So it would come as no particular surprise then that the FBI would come out of nowhere and demand that Catherine and her crew start work pronto on a crazy man who makes dolls out of his victims. The trick is that they want to find where the next possible victim is before it's too late. With less than forty eight hours to find this victim, odds are that porcelain dolls will have a new exclusive member. Jennifer 's acting is by far the pits, if anyone can whisper more in her movies than she, I would like to hear it. You think after MONEY TRAIN and OUT OF SIGHT she would tune up her voice up just considerably enough so someone in the theater doesn't go, "Huh?" The entering of the mind, when Peter first experiences it, is visually hard on the eyes. But other than this, the movie is boring as heck, reaping more dollars than satisfaction. If you like Jennifer and don't mind seeing her walk around in not so revealing clothes, by all means enjoy.
There's nothing like it...
posted on 13 Jun 2009This is one of the most beautiful horror films ever made. It is a dream to watch and a nightmare to consider. Jennifer Lopez is stunning in her role and is never out of character. She manages to be both strong and vulnerable at the same time. I just bought it on DVD, and the deleted scenes and the director's commentary are included. This is an artistic masterpiece and terrifying thriller, too. Don't miss it.
The Quay brothers should sue
posted on 07 Jun 2009"Originality" was not an item on the agenda when this film was put together out of old worn-out cliches and stolen visual imagery. I fell for Roger Ebert's hype and went to see it. The serial killer plotline pushed the film over into exploitation movie territory; I think by now I've seen enough movies where the passive female victim waits to be rescued, and the periodic cuts to her in her "cell" failed to generate any suspense or sympathy and just served to underline the exploitation. The plot, as if not dumb enough already, was dumbed down with the help of a stupidly expository script (J. Lopez's voiceovers of "I'm already in", "His victims", and the overemphasised "Aha!" moment with the engraved metal plate), and the allegedly "original" visual imagery was pretty much without exception stolen from somewhere, especially the sequence which followed the Quay brothers' "Street of Crocodiles" (a great short film, by the way) almost shot-for-shot. Tarsem even steals from himself, with the backdrop of the "Losing my religion" video (itself cribbed from Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" and the still photography of Jan Saudek, amongst other places) making an appearance in one sequence. (The film makes an excuse for this "homaging" via the conceit that an individual's mental imagery is constructed from that individual's sensory and aesthetic worlds, with a statue of a horse forming the basis for an early scene, and a painting of medieval torture forming the framework of another. ) To sum up: I found the suspense boring, the plot predictable, and the eye candy irritating. A matter of taste, I suppose; you may like it. Just don't fall for the hype.
I won't say it's awful, but Waterworld doesn't look too bad anymore.
posted on 07 Jun 2009I can't believe how empty this film was. I was impressed with the performance by Jennifer Lopez only because I had VERY low expectations after I saw her performance in U-Turn. She seems to be a little better than she used to be, however still only manages a level of competence at the role that you might expect from William Shatner doing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but I digress. The movie borrows heavily from most psychological thrillers you can name, in particular Silence of the Lambs.The only portions of the film that were not recipe were the internal aspects of the killer's mind. The failure of this concept is that, while visually impressive, the images aren't specifically detailed or abstract in any meaningful way. There is no useful symbolism employed in Carl's mind in the way of how the mind operates, or what Schizophrenia is like, or any representation of how they might solve their predicament. As such the movie seems very contrived and does not deliver suspense or thrills. All it delivers is a series of strange and meaningless images that are briefly interesting to view.Two more points: the soundtrack was one of the most painful to listen to since The Untouchables and possibly even before, furthermore, if ONE MORE film tries to mount tension by asserting the "If your mind thinks you die, then you die in the real world." premise, I'm going to walk straight out of the theatre. In a phrase- OVERUSED PLOT DEVICE.
Bad Rating
posted on 03 Jun 2009While I found all of the reviews/critiques interesting I only found one that addressed the rating code of this movie. While I do not believe in censorship, I do believe this film deserved an NC17 rating. The day I saw the movie a couple brought their (approximately) eight year old child to see this film. I realize I cannot personally make sure adults don't allow their young children to see a film such as "The Cell" but I did take it upon myself to tell them I thought the movie was inappropriate for a young child. I believe the movie was so graphic in the child abuse sequences that it could absolutely cause harm to children. Did anyone else feel that the rating was inappropriate? Silence of the Lambs was much more frightening without being nearly so graphic. Some of the scenes in this film were absolutely gratuitous violence; not relevant to the mind of the killer. However, I found the cinematography breathtaking.
on this site at least, horribly underrated
posted on 03 Jun 2009Why this film is rated somewhere in the mid 6's is beyond me. Roger Ebert had it right when he put it in the top ten of the year 2000. Finely crafted, technically perfect, it achieves everything it sets out to achieve.
I fear that people who weren't in its target audience went to see it and were taken aback. Intense, creepy, and good despite Jennifer Lopez- quite a testament to any movie's quality.
A rollercoaster nightmare
posted on 28 May 2009hmmm like every1 else i was keen to rent this DVD. jennifer lopez is a very sexy lady and she looks very sexy in this movie.the film seems 2 be tied together by the dream sequences and while they are good theres just no punch to the film.although its good thriller/horror movie which i like.its worth seeing if u wanna c amazing visual stuff and jennifer lopez.
An awful peice of fake 'art'
posted on 22 May 2009OK, I will admit, there are about 10 minutes or so of special effects in this film that would have made a great Nine Inch Nails video.
Unfortunately, they are wedged into a movie that would have to be a whole lot smarter to even be worth picking apart. I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned, but I like strong writing and an interesting story to go with my special effects, or, failing that, at least an interesting character. Here, the characters are all functional cardboard figures and the writing ranges from mere plot advancement to laughable psychobabble. The worst part of it, though, is that the story is merely a set of ridiculous and baldly implausible contrivances to justify the eye popping visuals. Admittedly, this makes it technically no worse than, say, Mission Impossible 2. But I doubt many people involved in that production thought that they were creating revolutionary art. Perhaps this is the way that film is destined to progress in the future.
Maybe the filmic audience can no longer tell the difference between bizarre visuals and transcendent art. No doubt this will become a cult film in the future among college aged pot smokers and will gain a reputuation that it simply does not deserve. For my money, though, its simply another piece of Hollywood garbage, and should be treated as such.
It's like giving a 1st year film student an unlimited budget.
posted on 30 Aug 2009The Cell has some interesting visuals that would look fantastic when seen independently of the movie. Unfortunately, when seeing them within the context of the film I couldn't appreciate them because I was so distracted by the poor acting and sophomoric dialogue. The movie looks like it was shot by a video director- a lot of flash trying to cover for little substance. I have a feeling that the concept pitched was "Jennifer Lopez in cool costumes with creepy scenery". Done well, this movie could have become another Seven. Instead, it ended up sinking to the depths of Stigmata. I recommend renting it, turning off the volume and making up your own dialogue. Trust me, you'll be happier if you do.