The Cell

It's one of the best films of the year. more

Something of an unforgettable experience.

Disturbing, visually stunning thriller. more

The costumes are phenomenal, the set design ravishing and the sadistic inventiveness extraordinary. more

Not nearly the mindfuck it wants to be. more

The Cell is foremost about singular imagery, a succession of still pictures strung together frame by frame. more

The action is as grisly as it is surrealistic. more

Visually impressive but exceedingly unpleasant little nail-biter. more

Mr. Singh may have an artist's temperament, and he shows signs of being a director more

What makes The Cell worth viewing at all is the carefully sculpted imagery. more

{WARNING: There might be some spoilers here!} First of all, let me start off by stating the obvious: this is not your average suspenseful cop chases killer kind of movie (it has far more substance than that). As well as achieving the understandable squeal or two (often because of grotesque things happening, such as flesh being stretched from suspension and intestines being pulled out), The Cell's visionary special effects is pure eye-candy that will undoubtedly thrill and excite you... The film at first is divided into two different storylines. You have child therapist, Catherine Deane... more

Tarsem Singh the director of The Cell shows that he knows exactly what he's doing when he is behind the camera. This serial killer film is one of the best films of 2000. The plot of this movie has a great hook. The entering of a persons mind by a second person. Jennifer Lopez's character has to enter the mind of a serial killer in order to figure out where a missing girl is before she drowns in his sick trap. The plot isn't all though. The stellar direction courtesy of Tarsem, using a combination of computer effects and elaborate sets, he creates the inner recesses of the mind with a very... more

Pathos and Hate; they are about as far apart as two emotions can be, and yet so often the two come hand in hand. Above all it is this aspect of first time director Tarsem's The Cell, and not the stunning visuals, which makes the film's most effective impact. The Cell is not just another case of style over substance as so many have said it to be, but rather an emotional tale of anger, fear and ultimately forgiveness that is told through the use of striking images instead of just dialogue. The film's central character is Catherine Deane, a child psychologist portrayed by Jennifer Lopez, who... more