Cell

A deeply silly horror movie.

The concept of humankind turning into one enormous mobile hotspot for use by an evil mastermind has legs. It’s too bad Cell cuts the idea off...

This is the undead equivalent of fast food. Some might find comfort in all these known quantities. Those looking for anything of substance would do...

What makes this movie about a zombie attack different from any other movie about a zombie attack? Nothing but its ineptitude.

Even if it weren’t cheap-looking and dreary, "Cell" would still be hobbled by an entertainment landscape already lousy with zombies, and ...

It’s not a good sign when a movie leaves you wishing that Eli Roth had directed it instead.

Takes an intriguing satirical premise and dilutes whatever potency it had on the page.

If you want a good thriller based on a Stephen King story with the same lead actors, watch 1408 instead. Don’t waste your time...

Eli Roth was once slated to direct, and would have been better.

Even King’s commentary on how cyber-connectivity breeds brainlessness feels shoehorned-in – mostly limited to a few lines from a sn...

Cusack and Jackson aren’t on their finest acting form, and this is one to forget.

The survivors never seem like anything but thinly drawn types and the sporadic attack scenes aren’t especially original or scary.

Not a polished work of filmmaking. Some of the nighttime scenes are so poorly lit it’s difficult to tell what’s happening. The editing...

The slapdash quality to the plotting is matched by the inept film-making – the dialogue is frequently inaudible, the night scenes murkily lit.