This one didn’t! I was ready for this movie and looked forward to the ending, one that was sad but touching. Here is the problem for me- they changed the ending! Many of my favorite Stephen King books have terrible endings. But Stephen himself wrote the screenplay along with Adam Alleca (Last House on the Left). With some movies you can say the failure is that the person that wrote the screenplay didn’t have the same vision as the person who wrote the book. He was super manic and really believable.
A stand out for me was Anthony Reynolds as Ray- he was great as a guy who was on the verge of going crazy because he decided not to sleep anymore. Jackson (Tom McCourt), Isabelle Fuhrman (Alice Jackson), Owen Teague and Stacy Keach all put in solid performances. (As Verizon would say, “Can you hear me now?”) The special effects were well done- The world in the movie goes crazy almost from minute one, so there was a lot of great gore right away and continues throughout! It wasn’t the acting I think John Cusack (Clay Riddell), Samuel L. That film was a true statement on the problem with consumerism and “Cell” really honed right in to the trouble with modern technology. If I were a terrorist- sending a pulse into every cell phone in the world at the same time, a pulse that turns us into murderous mindless and telepathic zombies- well how perfect is that? As a zombie fan, I couldn’t help picturing the zombies going up and down the escalators at the mall in one of my all-time favs “Dawn of the Dead”. “Cell” is a perfect statement about the times we are in.
I mean, we see people every day mindlessly talking, texting and playing on their phones. The problem for me is that it had the potential to be an incredibly amazing movie and somehow failed. Now I think the major problem is not that it is a bad story, it’s a really great story. (I’m not even going to go on about “Under the Dome”- one of the worst adaptations of all, for me.) Amazing as “The Shining”, “Misery”, “The Dead Zone”, “The Green Mile”, “The Shawshank Redemption” and of course “Carrie” were for me, there are many that were just downright terrible and made me sad that a book or short story I liked could be turned into such a crappy film. Come good and come bad, I have hung in there with the true Master of Horror since I picked up a copy of “Carrie” at a party back in high school and loved it so much that I ignored what probably was a pretty epic party- I got that enthralled in the book! I also admit I haven’t always loved his movies even if I liked the books. Now I want to start out by saying that I am a Stephen King Fan. Having read the book twice now- once a few years ago and again last week, I have mixed feelings about the film. The movie’s been around for a while at film festivals and VOD, and will soon be released in theaters. Stephen King’s novel “Cell” was published in 2006 and it’s taken 10 years to get it out on film.
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