You know that feeling when you are watching a movie and you swear you’ve seen it before? Almost every scene seems familiar but you can’t quite remember what happens next? If you have seen Cell before, don’t watch it again. If you have not seen it before, don’t watch it now. Instead, you can just read this Cell Movie Review and feel better about your life choices.
Why do good books get turned into bad movies? It really makes you question whether there’s any point in reading anything at all. For some reason, movie producers see the roaring success of a book rising in popularity, becoming a huge conversation piece, and believe they can capture that success into a 90-minute cinematic experience. Outliers of this rule include Jaws, Jurassic Park, and other movies that don’t necessarily begin with the letter J. Cell was a good book! It was fun reading how the global obsession with cell phones lead to cataclysmic events. The nice thing about reading is when you decide “I grow weary of this content” you simply have to close the book. That just isn’t an option while watching a movie on Netflix.
The movie stars the guy from the movie 1408. That was a good movie. If anyone has seen that movie and wants to write a review to be featured on this site, let me know! Anyway, so that guy is in this movie. After his flight plans are cancelled due to sudden apocalyptic circumstances, he forms an alliance with a ragtag group of survivors who travel the country for answers to what all went so wrong. It is determined cell phone signals are causing people to become zombie-like zombies. These creatures are presumably lead by a man wearing a red hoodie. Does that detail matter? You decide.
The survivors meet up with other survivors. One of which decided to make the healthy, normal decision of not sleeping ever again. Another one of the survivors decided to keep one of the zombie-phone people as a travel companion with expected results. This is why you don’t travel with zombie-phone people. So whilst on their quest to destroy the red-hoodied man and his crazy cell phone tower of doom, some general misadventure occurs. This process repeats for the duration of the movie until the heroic final scenes where some slightly more intense general misadventure takes place. Was it all a dream? You decide.
Cell Movie Review Final Thoughts
The moral of this story is to get a better cell phone plan. One that allows you to play games like Pokemon Go. Or allows you to text people instead of calling them because who makes phone calls anymore? The other moral of the story is you should watch better movies on Netflix or whatever content-streaming service you mooch off of a friend or family member. They should make a sequel to this movie where the villain is just Siren Head. People seem to really like Siren Head. They already tried to make a Siren Head movie and it was so so so bad. This could be his redemption story! That’s what every walking phone tower needs.
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