Review: Cellular

Posted by: Tom Milroy  •  September 10, 2004 @ 11:59am

Filed under: Reviews

Don't you just hate it when movies take too long to get going?? It can be really frustrating, especially when you've seen the trailer a hundred times, so you pretty much get the gist of the story.

Cellular gets going right away. Everyone knows Kim Basinger's character is going to get kidnapped, as is her son. This happens minutes into the movie, and that's good. Kim plays Jessica Martin, a science teacher who is 'napped. Her son's name is Ricky Martin, pun intended. Without spoiling some rather important pieces of the plot, let's just say it has to do with dirty cops.

The always dependable William H. Macy plays one of the good cops, who wants to open up a beauty salon... I mean, "day-spa". Chris Evans (The Perfect Score) plays Ryan, who gets as much screen time as Kim Basinger. He's the unwitting soul who gets involved in this caper after Kim's character gets a smashed phone to work. She is, after all, a science teacher.

This is a movie that seems to know it's a movie. There are some funny scenes along with some taut action. In a summer filled with some, shall we say, uninspired films (I'm talking to you, Vanity Fair), Cellular gets the right number.