a5c7b9f00b When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England. When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after. No spoilers, would have had to write 40 pages if I went that route. Terrible film. I wouldn't recommend Cell to anyone except perhaps if you want practice writing critiques of bad films. Initially hard to understand when supplied with veteran actors and a novel by Steven King the screenwriter and director should have been boatloads of material available to create a decent film. I thought I noticed that Steven King was listed with screenplay credits but if thats true it just makes this mess all the more difficult to understand. And before go any further I want to point out that I don't have any problem with the stories premise, it could have worked. And I have read the book from back in 2006 which I thought worked better in every way than does the film. For me the problems start early, once the 'event' begins the directors choice of shots removed me from the events he shows on the screen. A technique he employed throughout the film to eliminate tension, so you can forget about anything like horror. <br/><br/>Often films today rely too heavily on CGI rather than story but I can't blame these guys for that because in Cell the CGI sucked. If you're going to write it into the story then spring for enough to make it look real or do everybody a favor and edit it out. <br/><br/>Could have used a strong dose of character development or at minimum try and get the audience to like, relate to or care about the characters but that didn't happen. Another issue,the city of Boston has like 650K people yet 20 minutes after the start of the event the streets are deserted and remain so, really? That premise might have worked in some suburb but not in downtown Boston. <br/><br/>Too many scenes didn't add anything to the story, seemed like they were written just an excuse to off a few characters, throw in some bad CGI or just waste time. All in all it make for poor scene selection and worse storytelling. Then there's the ending... like out of a bad 70's TV movie, dreadful.<br/><br/>Really seemed like the screenwriter and the director were totally unprepared to develop this type of film. Like it was a film project they had to write, shoot and edit in a single weekend. I'd suggest both the writer and the director watch a classic like 'The Birds' or for a more recent film that was infinitely better in that same genre, 'World War Z'. I'd suggest the same for anyone thinking of renting this dog I saw this movie out of curiosity, the plot seem pretty good and I found it very interesting but it was way better on paper. <br/><br/>The execution in this movie was....an execution I could see people killing their careers after this movie, John Cusak is slowly becoming Nicholas Cage each time his movies are getting worst and you can see how uninterested he was in this one. For the most part this movie was boring I just kept at it to see how bad it got and surprisingly it did specially in the end to me it was one of the most confusing endings ever shot and edited. <br/><br/>I know this is based on a Stephen King novel and judging but it's reviews it's as bad as Thinner, I can't recommend this one only if your in the mood for mediocre entertainment with bad CGI, if you do agree on watching this be aware your questions won't be answered.<br/><br/>There is a reason this was never seen on theaters. Given the absurdity of the premise, Cell isn’t nearly as luridly entertaining as it should be. Aspiring graphic artist Clayton 'Clay' Riddell (<a href="/name/nm0000131/">John Cusack</a>), train driver Tom McCourt (<a href="/name/nm0000168/">Samuel L. Jackson</a>), and teenager Alice Maxwell (<a href="/name/nm2265157/">Isabelle Fuhrman</a>) band together when a worldwide electronic 'pulse' turns cellphone users into homicidal maniacs. The three survivors (not having been on a cellphone at the time) attempt to make it north from Boston to Maine where Clay hopes to reunite with his estranged wife and young son Johnny. Meanwhile, the world descends into apocalyptic madness as the afflicted begin turning into something worse. Cell is based on a 2006 novel by American horror novelist Stephen King. King adapted the novel for the movie along with American screenwriter Adam Alleca.Finding only Johnny's note on the refrigerator saying that he is going to Kashwak, Clay decides to head north alone in the Mister Sundae truck, even knowing that it is wired with explosives and that Ray (<a href="/name/nm0721593/">Anthony Reynolds</a>) has given him the detonator (in the form of a cell phone) and ordered him to use it when he becomes certain that it's the last hope. Clay advises Tom, Jordan (<a href="/name/nm4977122/">Owen Teague</a>), and Denise (<a href="/name/nm3178503/">Erin Elizabeth Burns</a>) to spray paint 'TJD' on the left-hand side of the road or on a tree wherever they go so that he can find them. Clay reaches Kashwak to find thousands of people heading en masse toward a cell phone tower. Clay plows through them and finds the red-hooded man standing in front of the tower. Clay rams into him with the truck and then shoots him repeatedly. He then pushes on foot through the masse looking for Johnny, but can't find him. Just as Clay is about to detonate the truck, Johnny (<a href="/name/nm6243766/">Ethan Andrew Casto</a>) appears before him. Clay embraces his son just as the masse begins to shriek, led by the red-hooded man. Johnny begins to shriek, too. Knowing that he is at the end of hope, Clay pushes the detonator, blowing up the truck, the red-hooded man, and the cell tower. Clay and Johnny are then shown walking along railroad tracks. 'TJD' is seen on a tree alongside the tracks, and Clay tells Johnny that they are headed for Canada. In the final scene, however, Clay is shown walking mindlessly in the middle of a masse of other mindless people.