9/14/04 "Cellular"

clever twist on Phone Booth..kinda opposite

9-14-04 Cellular

Notes from the Red Book

trailers-The Grudge, After the Sunset

sounds like TRON opening
Kim has such a little girl voice
random kiddie
cool key hole shot
"Friend with nipples"
Kim way overacter
"Get off the phone and concentrate on the road!"
"Who do I make it out to-the chick who sucks?"
That's a very bad man.
end credits on a cell phone-clever

Gosh, it's been so long since I've seen this...let me try to remember. Ok, a woman is kidnapped by some bad guys who want to force her husband to do something...can't remember what. She is held in an attic in some house and the bad guys smash the phone right in front of her so she can't use it. But since apparently she is MacGyver, she jerry-rigs it up and randomly hits numbers and wind up connected to some guy's cell phone. She begs him not to hang up, to take his phone to the police. He agrees, then realizes the police are in on the deal. There's lots of car chases and concerns with the phone dying, or going out of range. Then he foils the bad guys by taking video of them doing bad guy stuff with his phone! Hah! And all is well.

The thing that irked me most about this film was Kim Basinger's little-girl voice. Grr, that irked me so much for some reason. That and that her son was named Ricky Martin. Blah. And even I, the queen of suspending belief, found it rather hard to believe that she managed to get some guy's cell phone close enough to actually be of some help to her, and not in say, Cleveland. Ok to see once.

Until the next time this is Sarah saying, "If the signal dies, I....really don't care."