Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

sagbelly I have not read the book, so I am not comparing this film to the book. It was just garbage, there were 3 endings, what was that all about. What triggered this event, why was every dreaming the same dream. Maybe I just did not get it, or perhaps I was distracted by the bloody pigeon that has fallen down the chimney. Damn racket!

Fallen Eye Look, this movie is not good. However, it being as bad as it is doesn't bother me all that much, maybe because it's the kind of bad that must've been so obvious to everyone involved, but the consensus was to still release it because hey, it wasn't "produced" for free and money doesn't grow on trees.I don't even think Samuel L. Jackson acknowledges this film.You have Cusack figuring out that the mania is caused by phones in like, immediately. The head master has well, mastered these "foners/phoners" in like, immediately. You have Cusack's interpretation of these "phoners" as them being linked to some kind of organic network??? What? How is that your first conclusion... At least pretend that you think zombies exist before making such an accurate assessment. Damn Cusack.Perhaps I shouldn't even talk about that CG... I don't know.Then we have the how easily the "heroes" choose to kill/burn these things, before even at least trying to have a conversation on whether or not it's possible to save them... Just a conversation guys, we're not asking you go out and actually do it.How about that conversation Samuel and Cusack had on; "How did they all know where we were that fast"? Firstly, honestly, I don't even understand that question. What does the "fastness" of it have to do with anything? Also, I don't know Samuel, I'll take a SHOT in the dark, unlike you who took it in broad daylight and say; "Uhm, you shot a rifle, they heard it, they saw you".And should we talk about that ending? Truthfully, if we did, I wouldn't know what to say. 3.5/10.P.S. Cell isn't necessarily bad, well I mean it's bad, it really is, but, it's not bad perhaps, more than it is clearly incomplete, and that's well, bad.

Michael Ledo In this film, the zombie apocalypse is initiated by a cell phone, turning people in cell phone zombies a slightly worse condition than their present state. Clay (John Cusack) is the victim of a dead cell phone battery and manages to survive. He is a graphic novelist, a skill set needed to rebuild the world. Traveling along with him is Tom, a Vietnam vet and Subway conductor.Since they are on the East Coast, Catalina Island is not an option. They plan on going to check on Clay's family, picking up and losing people along the way. From there they plan on going to Kashwak, Maine, because Stephen King is familiar with it.There is an ending, but you don't get the closure you are seeking.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

zardoz-13 Stephen King adapted his own novel "Cell" with "Paranormal Activity 2" director Tod Williams and "Standoff" scenarist Adam Allena. Nevertheless, not even King's contribution in this forgettable film cannot salvage this momentarily imaginative but ultimately depressing spin on zombie sagas. Basically, some unknown, evil force contaminated all cellular communication with a pulse that transformed anybody on a cell phone into a zombie. The primary problem with "Cell" is neither King nor his collaborators provide a credible explanation for that mysterious cyber-connected malevolence that precipitated the pulse that turns mankind into zombies. Once they conjure up the cool idea that substitutes for the reason for zombies, "Cell" winds up being just another humdrum zombie flick. Mind you, as Clay Riddell, John Cusack plays a largely sympathetic protagonist—he works as a graphic novelist--in search of his estranged wife and son after the pulse triggers the zombie apocalypse. The story becomes a journey of hardship for Cusack's woebegone father and his new friend Tom McCourt (Samuel L. Jackson in a subdued performance) that they stick together once Cusack flees from the Boston Airport where everybody mutates into zombies. The idea that pulse transmissions could drive humans out of their minds and make them behave like flesh-eating lunatics wears off when our heroes gather a motley crew of survivalists and search for a refuge from the epidemic. Reportedly, King altered the ending of the movie to compensate for the ending in his novel that his public complained about. Sadly, neither Cusack nor Jackson bring anything either new or memorable to their characterizations. The villain--The Night Traveler, a creep in a red hoodie (with headphones)—qualifies as a half-baked but ugly adversary. "Cell" goes to Hell after its initial moments.