The Cell (R)
A movie with no plot, no logic, no meaning.
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Movie details
- Studio: Warner Bros.
- Directed By: Tarsem Singh
- Release Date: 08/18/2000
- Genre: Science Fiction
- MPAA Rating: R
- MPAA Explanation: violence, drug use, child abuse, language
Parents need to know
Parents need to know that the movie has many gross, upsetting, and scary moments, including child abuse, torture, murder, perversion, mutilation, a terrifying full-immersion baptism, and characters in peril. A character smokes marijuana to calm her nerves.
Families can talk about what it would be like to enter someone else's mind and about the differences in the ways individuals think. They may also want to talk about mental illness, its causes and treatments.
Families can talk about what it would be like to enter someone else's mind and about the differences in the ways individuals think. They may also want to talk about mental illness, its causes and treatments.
Message
Social Behavior:
None
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Cigarette and marijuana smoking, alcohol abuse
Violence
Graphic, gruesome images, torture, murder, child abuse Very scary
Sex
Nude corpse, sexual references
Language
Some strong language
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Nell Minow
A serial killer is in some sort of irreversible catatonia, and the police need to find where he has hidden his last victim, who may still be alive. So they turn to Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), who has developed a means to communicate with comatose patients by entering their dreams. The police decide to allow her to see if she can make any progress with the serial killer.
Is it any good?
I think the idea here was to cross The Silence of the Lambs with The Matrix. THE CELL's so-called plot seems to be just an excuse for lots and lots of stunning but often gruesome surreal visual effects that fall somewhere between the hyper-clarity of a nightmare and the claustrophobic grotesquery of a bad acid trip.
The movie is all sensation, no plot, no logic, no meaning, no effort to explore or illuminate. It is filled with juxtapositions that seem more meaningful than they are, creating an illusion of profundity that dissolves before your eyes.
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