Cell, The (Blu-ray)

Do yourself a favor and watch this movie.

My all time favorite movie as a kid never gets old

I hadn't seen this movie in such a long time so I decided to rent it I was happy with my rental purchase

I love the parts where she is inside the mind, but outside of that, the rest is boring.

The plot of The Cell is simple enough to follow. Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is a child psychologist who uses newly developed technology to enter the minds of her patients in order to help them solve their problems. Her attempts to coax her latest patient, a boy who almost drowned, out of his coma aren't going so well, which means that the organization overseeing the project wants to cut the funding. Perfectly on cue, enter Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio).Stargher is a serial killer with a decidedly troubled past who traps his female victims in a cell and slowly fills it with water over a forty-hour period until they drown. He is captured without much ado after going into a coma of his own in the beginning of the movie, leaving the whereabouts of his latest victim unknown. FBI agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) knows she is trapped in the cell, but he has no way to determine the location of Stargher's fully automatic death trap. Perfectly on cue, enter Catherine Deane.The rest of The Cell deals mainly with Catherine's journey into the interior of Stargher's mind - a fascinating place if there ever was one, replete with several different versions of Stargher including one as a demon king and another as a child, the mutilation of a horse and the painful removal of Novak's intestines. Bambi this movie is not. There is blood and guts aplenty, none of which is superfluous in my opinion, and all of which help the viewer to see the wonderful, surreal horror of Stargher's mind all the more clearly. It's stunningly beautiful in a sick sort of way, especially since some of the scenes may strike a chord within you of your own nightmares.The Cell is visually amazing. At times the images seem bleached, in reflection of what Stargher does to his victims once they are dead, yet at other times the colour saturation is enough to almost make your eyes hurt. The stylized world is enthralling and repulsive, especially Stargher's outlandish costumes - like the weirdest king who never lived. The entire sequence in his mind is grotesque, nightmarish, as though seen through the eyes of a child in an exaggerated burlesque of wonder. The world of Catherine's mind is more serene and less frightening, or at least until Stargher begins to assert himself within it.Exquisite sets, crazy/beautiful costuming, astonishing makeup...and the acting isn't bad either. Some have deemed Lopez's acting terrible, but the fact is that The Cell is not about plot. It is about pure eye candy - the movie is like the craziest acid trip you'll ever take. Lopez acts the part of Catherine just fine, in my opinion, and besides, your eyes probably won't be on her anyway. Or on Vince Vaughn, who is competent as ever as the dependable FBI agent Novak.Vincent D'Onofrio, on the other hand, is breathtaking. His ability to act so many different characters - or rather, different facets of the same complicated and twisted character - is definitely deserving of praise. His body language, his facial expressions and all the quirks and tics he brings to the character of Stargher combine to strengthen the image of D'Onofrio as one of the best character actors of this day. I may have seen him in bad movies, but his acting is always superb, and The Cell is no different. His acting, however, is not the saving grace of an otherwise bad movie. It is actually the rather large cherry on the top of a recipe that will make your head spin in vast and increasingly dizzy circles.The bottom line: it's wild and it's weird but it's outstandingly beautiful. I don't recommend it for most people below the age of eighteen or above the age of twenty-five, though, so don't watch it with your children or your parents.But do watch it.

This movie is the best really have to focus on it

I have keeping this movie for maybe forever and now I have a chance to see it and I am now speecheless by it's visual beauty, it's originality of story, it's true nature of everything.This movie should be hailed as even more then <SEVEN> or any movie that has somethng to do with same genre.The camera work is pure work of art and if you watch it with bluray you will never go back to dvd again I mean it.It's like watching an animation no single spot or blur image at all.The East meets West art nothing to be blamed although ths story is more of a indian director Tarsem Singh's work and you will see how it is what it is.The color is mainly RED+ BLUE and some GREEN you will be blind by it and never get out of it for sure.If you liked this film you will also have to watch <THE FALL> <The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert >The story is about a serial killer who has a constant headache and a disease that puts him into his own world that he kidnaps woman and end up with making them dolls.Heard it thousand times ha?Nope not like this.The woman Jennifer Lopez is the one who goes inside the killer's world by connecting to the guy by going inside his mind who is in a comma.The worls is a pure different world a world of dream, a fantasy world a pure delight to watch sometimes a nightmare but a work of art that you will be crazy about.She goes there but this time she failed so another comes along this time it is Vince Vaughn a bit less serious but brave guy.He made it and saves them all.The story is good but more lf a tour that is important.You will now going to the wonderland part 2 that you never heard of the world that you never even think of or informed of.Are you ready?It's not all scary though but you will be sure that you will fall in love so much that you just have to watch it twice in the same seat.

First I’d like to say I cannot stand Jennifer Lopez. Never liked her acting, especially that supposed singing she does. But this movie is anAmazing thriller. And I love thrillers. Surprisingly she delivered in this movie and it’s one of my favorite films. The terrifying scenes, the costumes, the makeup and the story are all well done. Love it.

GREAT MOVIE

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Sehr guter Film. Die spezial Effekte sind richtig gut gemacht, die Story ist auch spitze und J.Lo hat einen hervorragenden Job gemacht. Beim Film muss man schon aufpassen, dass man gewisse Sachen auch begreift. Der Film ist absolut sehenswert

Película con castellano .🇪🇸

ありがとうございました。