Cellular

    Cellular
    2004

    Synopsis

    A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

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    Cast

    • Kim BasingerJessica Martin
    • Chris EvansRyan Hewitt
    • Jason StathamEthan
    • William H. MacySgt. Bob Mooney
    • Noah EmmerichJack Tanner
    • Valerie CruzDana Bayback
    • Richard BurgiCraig Martin
    • Eric Christian OlsenChad
    • Jessica BielChloe
    • Rick HoffmanLawyer

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Slate

      A thriller that isn't kinky isn't much of a thriller. And Cellular has the best kinky phone gimmick since "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).
    • 75

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Very slick, very compelling and not nearly as predictable as it sounds.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      It's an honest, unpretentious, well-made B picture with a clever, silly premise, a handful of sly, unassuming performances and enough car chases, decent jokes and swervy plot complications to make the price of the ticket seem like a decent bargain.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Chris Evans is blithely likable despite a few faux-Cruise mannerisms, Basinger makes a vividly frightened yet resourceful woman in peril, and William H. Macy scores as a mild L.A. cop who lets out his inner macho.
    • 60

      Variety

      Because plot is the sum total here, the alarming holes, inconsistencies and impossibilities in Chris Morgan's script corrode this drama of distress.
    • 60

      L.A. Weekly

      The whole thing skims along on suspension of disbelief.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Macy once again brightens an otherwise mundane character.

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