Wednesday 27 January 2016

The Cell (2000) 7/10

Starring : Jennifer Lopez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Director : Tarsem Singh
Running Time : 108 mins

Dr Catherine Deane (Lopez) uses an experimental treatment to enter the mindset of children that are in comas. When a serial killer, Carl Rudolph Stargher (D’Onofrio), falls into a coma with one of his victims still held captive, they call her in to help enter his mind and find the location of his final victim. There she finds his mind split in two – a childlike innocent side, and a murderous power-hungry side which wants her dead.

This was a better movie than I imagined it would be, with a pretty solid procedural investigation wrapped in a sci-fi flick. The sets were imaginative, though Singh’s later sets bear remarkable similarities in their Dali-esque inspirations, and the notion of a machine that you can take you into someone’s mind may not be an original idea, but it is handled with imagination in this intriguing film.

You’ll like this if you liked : Identity



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