Director:
David R. EllisGuión:
Chris MorganCámara:
Gary CapoMúsica:
John OttmanReparto:
Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy, Richard Burgi, Jessica Biel, Caroline Aaron, Valerie Cruz, Rick Hoffman, Brendan Kelly (más)Streaming (1)
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Un joven recibe la llamada de una mujer que le dice que ha sido secuestrada y que la van a asesinar muy pronto. Además, sus captores buscan también a su marido y su hijo. Ella necesita ayuda, pero no sabe dónde está y las baterías del móvil no duran eternamente. (Tripictures)
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En ningún caso se trata de un thriller serio y de suspense. Más bien, sólo una broma exagerada con muchos clichés y puentes de los asnos. Sin embargo, incluso algunos de los personajes copian a colegas de películas mejores y más famosas (el policía de Macy de Prendergast de Duvall de Un día de furia). Kim Basinger nada especial, Chris Evans sólo un guapetón de culebrón forzadamente plantado. En cambio, si no te lo tomas en serio, sino como un anuncio de Nokia de 100 minutos, te divertirás. Aunque desde luego no más de lo que se divirtió el productor Dean Devlin tras firmar el contrato con ella.
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It is rare to find such a textbook example of product placement in the film industry as in this little movie. However, I must admit that I wasn't bored at all by this bloated advertisement for NOKIA. The film's advantages are its fast pace and reasonable runtime. Although I am sensitive to poorly written scripts and plot inconsistencies, in this case, these shortcomings didn't bother me. Kim Basinger, as the main star, attracts attention about as much as my grandmother in a nightgown, but even that is not a hindrance. If you don't have high expectations, the film offers a decent chance for entertainment and represents a light genre above average. Overall impression: 65%.
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At first, I was quite scared about what Chris Morgan had prepared for me in his screenwriting debut, because the main abduction happens before I even get a chance to settle down, and right from the beginning it presents an unbearably (and almost unwatchable) hysterical Kim Basinger and Chris Evans trying to win back his ex-girlfriend. In the end, it turns out to be a mixture that alternates excellently built tension with logical flaws and adds a moderately high pile of clichés on top of it all. Fortunately, a likable character gradually emerges from the mess, so I had someone to cheer for, and thanks to Evans in particular, I have the impression of a better-than-average movie in Cellular.
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At the beginning it was a crazy trip. In the introduction I thought that Chris Evans was making fun of me when he deliberately walked around shirtless and tried to seduce Jessica Biel with cheesy pick-up lines. She wasn’t buying it, so I felt like I was going to watch something similar to Beverly Hills 90210. Then we get to see Kim Basinger who has a problem, and at that moment the movie becomes a Nokia commercial. It was probably good at the time but today it’s pretty laughable considering where Nokia is today and what it could do in 2004 according to the movie. I had no idea about many of these functions until watching the movie but okay. Over time, the flick turns into a pretty good action movie with the best the genre has to offer. In the end I was surprisingly satisfied – which is something I didn’t really expect.
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The screenwriter of Phone Booth somewhat recycled his previous idea and routineer Ellis directed it. Loads of horrendous clichés, unimpressive acting performances and an unlikeable main protagonist make this picture really boring. Unfortunately not even the typically outstanding Macy or the usually cool Statham don’t have the change to rescue the picture from drowning in waters of mediocrity. An uninteresting picture that comes up with nothing new and even what we have seen a hundred times over is delivered in a form that is even worse than the competition.
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