The Cell (DVD)

The plot of 'The Cell' is intriguing. A serial killer has kidnapped another victim, and his automatic killing machine will drown her in 40 hours unless someone stops it. The FBI enlists a team of psychologists in an attempt to figure out where the killer is hiding his victim. The murderer is a schizophrenic who has entered a catatonic state and is unable to talk or move. Using the latest technology, a psychologist enters the mind of the killer to ...
...right? Well, the plot gets confused by the fact that Jennifer Lopez's character is a child psychologist who has another patient in a coma, a little boy called Edward. This part of the plot seemed vague and slow-moving compared to the rest of the movie, which is suspensful and exciting. The movie consists of two parts, reality and fantasy. You see what is going on inside the killer's mind and what is happening in reality. The scenes with Lopez in ...

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The Cell is an odd and quite horrendous film. I thought it looked freaky when it was released in the cinema and on video so I never gave much thought to watching it. But last night I watched it on Sky Box Office because there was nothing much else to do. Well. Yuk, yuk, creepy, gross, yuk. You’ll see why. The Cell begins by introducing us to Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), a psychotherapist who is part of a team pioneering a groundbreaking ...
...into the mind of a comatose young boy, in order to give him therapy and try to wake him up, as it were. We are told that the team tried once before to ‘reverse the feeds’ and insert the boy into her mind, but this did not work because the boy was unsure of his surroundings. We are also told that it is possible for three people to participate in a ‘group session’. The need for this information becomes clearer later on in the ...

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The initial hype surrounding this movie on its cinema release was considerable, mixed reviews followed, along with reasonable box office success ($100m world-wide). Reviews ranged from “From the first frame to the last, The Cell is a visually striking film, as gorgeous as it is grotesque, at times virtually unwatchable, yet impossible not to watch." To the slightly more sobering… “A little pretentious by the half-hour mark. An ...
...I was unable to watch the cinema release but have been eagerly anticipating the recent video release to make up my own mind. For those that don’t know The Cell marks the return of Jennifer Lopez to the world of mainstream movies having been lured away from her mediocre pop career. It is a shame that she has taken such a long sojourn since her fantastic performance in the hugely under watched and rated Soderburgh classic Out of Sight where co-starring ...

Mercury 20.03.2001 (09.04.2001) · Read full review
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...fails to enchant me. The Cell, Singh's debut feature-film following a widely-lauded career in music videos and advertising, is astonishing on several levels. Granted, none of those levels are anywhere near the level upon which the Plot is situated, but so intoxicating is most everything else that one scarcely has the wits to notice. That plot - a flimsily-strung mesh of cliché and genre conventions - concerns the efforts of psychotherapist Catherine ...
...the mind of captured serial killer Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) by way of an elaborate machine of some kind that transports one into the dreamscapes of another. To this end, she is assisted some by Stargher's captor, FBI agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn), himself harbouring a fair few demons also. It is whilst wandering those dreamscapes that The Cell astounds. The work of Scandinavian artist Odd Nerdstrum is plundered throughout, and the resultant ...

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Wouldn’t the world be a nicer place if Lopez just stuck to acting instead of inflicting another piece of sub-Gloria Estefan detritus on us? Remember 'Out Of Sight'? Bloody marvellous, I thought. Then came ‘If You Had My Love.’ Hmmm… thinks I, hoping this doesn’t set a trend, and the girl sticks to screen and not songs. No such luck. Having lost all respect for the artist formerly known as Jennifer, it was with a heavy ...
...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 in, our heroine must discover the location of his last victim before time runs out... Directed by Tarsem Singh, this is the most visually intense piece ...

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...mental laboratory where she enters the mind of a young boy in a vegetative state in order to help coax him out into the real world. At least, that's how it starts. We are quickly introduced to the world of Karl, a sick and twisted serial killer who likes to slowly drown his female victims while filming them. After this he dowses them in enbalming fluid, raises himself to the roof on hooks attatched to his back and masturbates over the corpses while ...
...describe this, sick. Straight away the film enables you to develop a serious loathing of this character thanks, mainly, to the incredible acting skills of Vincent D'Onofrio. The police eventually catch him but, with one victim still missing, he refuses to say where she is. In comes Catherine. She steps into Karl's head in order to find the wherabouts of the missing girl. HERE BEGINS THE MOST SURREAL HEAD-TRIP EVER SEEN. All I want to know is how ...

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I wanted to see The Cell when it was at the cinema but I was unable to do so, that’s why I picked it up on DVD. (NB This is a review of the region 2 disc) Jennifer Lopez plays a child psychologist who works at a facility where they have the ability to let people enter other’s minds. I think the other person has to be in a coma, the whole process isn’t really explained but it doesn’t really matter. Anyway, Lopez has been entering the mind of a boy ...
...serial killer has been doing the rounds, abducting young women and subjecting them to his weird torture. When the FBI finally catch the killer he has gone into a coma (how convenient) due to his schizophrenia becoming more advanced. The Feds take him to Lopez and she agrees to enter his mind to find out the whereabouts of his current victim who still lives, inside his torturous cell. Of course things don’t go as planned so the Fed in charge of ...

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I decided after hearing what the film was about that I had to see it, sceptical however because it starred Miss Lopez. The movie is one that will lead you down a visual and psychological road, prepare from your mind to be messed with. Jennifer Lopez is Catherine, a child psychologist who is working on a new type of technology that allows her to enter someone else’s mind, she is testing it on a coma victim who she is trying to coerce out of his deep ...
...that it actually works, just the reports of Catherine. while all this is going on an FBI agent, Peter played by Vince Vaughn, is trying to track down a serial killer named Carl. When he discovers the identity of the killer it is too late and Carl goes into a coma before he can be arrested. The twist here is that there is still one victim left and she only has about a day before she dies. And here we see the story pulling together. I personally thought ...

Gemgemmings 03.01.2001 · Read full review
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Forget what you've heard from the press, and the critics, forget every bad review you've heard, stop looking for silence of the lambs and sit back relax and watch a beautiful extraordinary film. as usual Ms Lopez puts in a fine performance, in what I can only describe as a dark edged trip into the human physce( have i spelt that right), combined with the beauty of a fairy tale come to life. The story is about an experiment into the ability to travel ...
...times before, but what if the person was a serial killer and the trip was a desperate race against time? This should add more suspense but sadly it fails on this level, fortunately, it discovers a new direction by looking into the killers past and realising why he had become so evil in the first place, there are times I admit when I actually felt sympathetic towards the killer. The cinematography is simply stunning through the use of vibrant colours ...

mcpoeman 26.05.2001 (03.06.2001) · Read full review
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...schauten uns den Film : The Cell an. Ich möchte noch kurz erwähnen das mein Kumpel absoluter JeLo-Fan ist, was ich persönlich nicht so ganz nachvollziehen kann, aber das nur am Rande, nun also zum Film. Jennifer Lopez (JeLo) verkörpert die Psychologin Catherine, Diese benutzt eine völlig neue Methode, die es ihr erlaubt in das Unterbewußtsein von Menschen einzudringen. Der eigentliche Sinn dieser Therapie liegt darin Kontakt mit Komapatienten herzustellen. ...
...zu diesem Film The Cell ist sicherlich kein Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte, alles was man zu sehen bekommt ist irgendwo und irgendwie schon mal dagewesen. Er ist aber auf jeden Fall recht spannend durchinszeniert und langweilig wird er auch nicht. Trotzdem hat mich eines doch sehr gestört und das ist die extreme Gewaltdarstellung in diesem Film. So muß ich nicht unbedingt eine Gedärmentnahme über mehrere Sekunden sehen und auch sexuelle Handlungen ...

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...who enters people's mind through the use of a technology which allows mind linkage. When a serial killer is apprehended in a comatose state with his final victim still alive, but trapped within a glass cell which will fill with water within 40 hours, the FBI enlist her help to get inside his mind and find out where she is being held. The opening sequence featuring a woman dressed in a white flowing dress walking across the tops of sand dunes in the ...
...of nightmarish imagery from within the mind of tortured mind of a psychopathic schizophrenic. Directed by Tarsem who is mostly associated with music videos, this movie is full of bizarre imagery which is beautifully shot and truly freaky. Even if you hate the movie you will appreciate how visually impressive it is. The horror aspect may be a little too stomach-churning for some and it definitely deserves its R-rating - I won't give away any of the ...

wampyrii 26.09.2000 · Read full review
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...to watch together. It was The Cell with Jennifer Lopez. I like J-Lo so I was looking forward to that. About The Film What is the brain content of paranoid Serial Killer? That is the question that The Cell is based on. Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is a pioneer psychologist. She is developing a new method which allows her to enter in the brain of a person who is in coma and helps it to come back from it. When FBI reaches the traces of a murderer, ...
...His last victim is in the cell and the FBI has to find out where that cell is before it’s too late. At this point is where they ask help from Catherine. Her scope is to enter into his brain and to find out where the cell is. The things of course in a human brain are not as she thought they would be and she is in a great danger. The Cast Jennifer Lopez (the main reason I wanted to see this film and the main reason you have to see this film. Maybe ...

Kristal 26.08.2003 · Read full review
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...gets excited about Hannibal at the cinema, another serial killer film comes out on DVD to add to the collection of cold blooded killer movies. The Cell is different to all the other serial killer movies in that it has a large element of science fiction as well as some truly shocking moments. Jennifer Lopez plays the usual psychiatrist role in the film, but instead of being asked to track down a killer, she must enter the mind of one that is in a ...
...As you can imagine, the mind of a serial killer is not a happy place, Jennifer's character must try to overcome the very powerful imagery of the strange and warped place without getting trapped herself or going mad. She finds her whole world being turned around by his ideas and has to face the horror of a world where the killer is in control. The dream sequences are unbelievable, this is not a film for the faint hearted, it challenges the mind and ...

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...get your attention, Jennifer Lopez, the star of The Cell, is to be quite honest the only name I even recognized from the cast list, I associate her more with singing than acting, but credit where it's due - and I believe it is due here. The story follows Miss Lopez as the voluntary guinea pig in a new conscience transfer programme attempting to get inside the head of coma victims with the aim of triggering the damaged part of the brain by linking ...
...where the body suit comes in. Briefly the project is running out of funds and they find themselves wiring up to a serial killer of lovely young women who has just...yes, you guessed it - gone in to a coma. It would be cruel to give more of the story away than that, but the sets and effects are superb. The supporting cast, I hope will one day become household names, maybe just because I wasn't expecting great things from them, but they all gave good ...

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...many ways reminded me of the Hellraiser series of films. The story involves machine built by a research team which allows someone to enter the mind of another. The story evolves around a race against time in whihc Lopez must enter a killers mind to find out where he has stashed his latest victim. The film is exciting and full of brilliant special effects it is also very original. Beware if you have epilepsy as their are several graphical scenes ...

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