Cellular (DVD)

When you look back at the appearances of technology in older movies you often find yourself laughing at how things were back then, or splitting sides at the way the director obviously thought technology would have advanced as they bring in whimsical products in black plastic exterior that you know will not be around for a long time to come -- and when they finally do get released they aren't going to look any bit less of a fashion accesory than an iPhone. 'Cellular' on the other hand is a movie that does not try be ahead of itself when it comes to technology, but it does try and make a mobile phone out to be the greatest advancement since we started experimenting with ...  Read the complete review

Director: David R. Ellis Released: 2004 Certificate: 15 Runtime: 94 mins Approx. === Disk 1: Main Feature === This film stars Kim Basinger, as high school teacher Jessica Martin, who has just been kidnapped for reasons she apparently doesn't understand, by man named Nathan (Jason Statham), and his gang of crooks. They take her to a unknown house and lcarry her upstairs into the attic, where Nathan, smashes a nearby phone using a large sledgeehammer, and then locks her in. After checking out of the window and having no idea where she is, she hears a dial tone from the previously wrecked phone, but the keypad is shattered, but worried ...  Read the complete review

Ryan is desperate to win his old girlfriend back; so desperate that he is willing to run around town picking up t-shirts and flyers for her new campaign to stop pollution on the beach where they live. Whilst driving to the depot he gets a random phone call from a hysterical woman who claims to have been kidnapped by a group of thugs. She frantically explains to him that her only form of communication is this call as she is wiring a broken phone which cannot make any other connection. He is too busy and sceptical to believe her until he overhears her being brutally attacked on the other end of his mobile. So begins a cat and mouse game of fights and intrigue as Ryan ...  Read the complete review

During the last week or so I’ve watched a couple of films, one which has been heralded as amazing and the other just average. The first of the two films was Cellular and everything I’ve read about this suggested it’d be incredibly average bordering on poor. It was incredible surprising that I actually enjoyed this a lot more than the other film, Closer. I’d seen a lot of adverts advertising Cellular and although they kind of whetted my appetite its fair to say I wasn’t really in a rush to see it. It was just a normal day for Jessica (Kim Basinger), having dropped her son off at the bus to school she went home to start her normal day. She’s interrupted very ...  Read the complete review

I quite like the odd action movie every now and then, so when I saw this movie being advertised on Easter Monday, I thought it would be worth a watch...that and the fact there was nothing else on the tele either! After reading a couple of reviews on here, I wasn't expecting too much from it, but if I'm honest, my partner and I were hooked and really enjoyed t! Cellular starts with housewife Jessica Martin being kidnapped and held hostage by a group of men, but she doesn't know why. She is locked in a dark attic, with only a broken telephone. As you do, she decides to check the phone and she realises it has a dial tone so she sets about trying to make a call ...  Read the complete review