The Cell (DVD) Reviews

===DETAILS=== Format: Region 2 - 1 disc DVD Released: 2000 Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes Directed by: Tarsem Singh Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn Certificate rating: 18 Tagline: Enter the mind of a killer. Description from the back of the box: An intensely ...  Read the complete review

Lopez is a psychologist with a unique therapy: She uses high-tech to enter the minds of patients, into their dreamworlds, and help them repair from the inside out. This technique, it appears, is especially effective with comatose subjects for whom other therapies are useless. When a comatose serial killer (Vincent D'Onofrio,) is brought ...  Read the complete review

This movie was beyond wierd, which made it beyond scary. I had no idea what to expect when I first watched this movie. This was the weirdest movie I have ever seen. It scared the crap out of me! It was pretty good though and if you like crazy weird scary movies you will probably like this one. It was a little too scary for me however, so ...  Read the complete review

Tarsem Singh (or just Tarsem as he prefers to be known) is not, I suspect, a very likable chap. In interviews, he comes across as obnoxious, chauvinistic and pretentious, and there is little in his work that contradicts these impressions. Be that as it may, said work never fails to enchant me. The Cell, Singh's debut ...  Read the complete review

The story of The Cell is not exactly something that is really groundbreaking. In fact, it is basically the same as the story in The Silence of the Lambs. You have a killer in custody and these people have to enter his mind to find a female victim who is currently in danger of losing her life. The only real difference between the ...  Read the complete review

I finally managed to see this film after wondering about it for years. When Catherine's work as a psychotherapist doesn't go quite to plan with a comatosed child, she is assigned to a serial killer who locks his victims in a cell that fills up with water. However, the twist with this killer is that he likes to attach himself onto hooks ...  Read the complete review

sickly disturbing - Advantages: realise best off not watching a j-lo film. - Disadvantages: very violent with far too much attention to detail., acting is well below par, plot is appalling.scences of torture far too graphic and powerful

Ok I understand how this works better now (thanks for the comments) my review as all passion and no substance.bad Loki The Cell tells the story of a beautiful psychotherapist who via some fancy neurological interface equipment links her conscious to her patient?s sub-conscious or dream state and thus treats their trauma ...  Read the complete review

Cathrine (Jennifer Lopez) is a child psychotherapist involved in a new experiment that allows coma victims to travel into her mind and vice versa. However the experiment isn't going well and people are getting impatient. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose. Carl (Vincent D'Onofrio) captures a girl and leaves her in a glass ...  Read the complete review

I walked out of that movie thinking what sort of world can create people who make movies like that - Advantages: Costuming/SFX, J-Lo - Disadvantages: Gratuitous violence, horrible dialogue, meticulous attention to detail in areas where is certainly wasn't needed & lack of detail in the areas where it was needed

I am still not a film critic. Why I chose to watch this ------------------------- Having recently entered the world of DVD buying and selling I was curious to delve into the history of Jennifer Lopez's acting. I did realise that she had acted before as I'd seen her in "Jack" and "The Wedding ...  Read the complete review

Alright as a set designer I have say this movie rules! I only wish I had been able to work on this one. The sets although primarily digital were absolutely stunning. The costuming was incredible. The atmosphere created was so rich you almost cut it in front of you. Breifly if you have never seen the flick it is about a ...  Read the complete review

I heard so many negative comments about "The Cell" that I stayed well away at the cinema, and on rental. I only rented if because my local store didn't have much else I hadn't seen already... All the critics said "visual style and nothing else"..also "pretty sick". They were right ...  Read the complete review

The Cell, is a strange, surreal film. The possibilties to the film they could of made are endless, the actors they could of chosen again endless. If you are looking for a film which shows Jenifer Lopez looking good this is definitely for you. The story is sick and there is no other way to describe it. The story consists of ...  Read the complete review

“An intensely visual and surreal journey into the depths of a serial killer’s mind....” Not my words but those on the back of the DVD case for the film starring Jennifer Lopez and to be honest for once they are correct. Now having said that you could be forgiven for thinking that ‘The Cell’ is going to be a ...  Read the complete review

It came as no shock to me that this psychological thriller failed to set the box office alight. Jennifer Lopez stars as Catherine, a psychotherapist who's involved in a revolutionary new treatment that enables her to literally enter the mind of her patients. However, when serial killer Carl Stragher slips into a coma, the FBI turn to ...  Read the complete review

Starring- Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughabn, Vincent D’Onofrio, Marianne Jean Baptiste Carl Stargher (d’Onofrio) is a particularly deranged serial killer who kidnaps women, then incarcerates them in a cell which very slowly fills up with water until they drown. Peter Novak (Vaughan) is the FBI agent who tracks him down, ...  Read the complete review

'The Cell' is a Jennifer Lopez vehicle in which she is anything but the star, eclipsed as she is by the startling and often disturbing special effects. JLo plays a child counsellor who has joined a team of scientists. Their know-how can put her inside the mind of any other person, but it is being used to help treat a ...  Read the complete review

A strange but compelling mix of thriller and horror that seems to just about pull it off. The plot - mad serial killer with ring fetish (you'll have to see it to get that one!!) kidnaps women to drown and turn into dolls. FBI find said serial killer comatose but need to find his latest victim before she dies. In comes ...  Read the complete review

Necrophilia and child abuse do not an entertainment make. - Advantages: Clever visuals, J-Lo is pretty - Disadvantages: Deeply sick details, Pretentious direction, Flat dialogue