The Cell, aka the third disappointing movie I've seen this week.
Tarsem Singh is primarily a music video director and his first movie is full of great visual and audio effects but I just didn't find it particularly enjoyable to watch. It took about half an hour to set the plot of the film up and to tell us what was happening and by the time the action began and they started looking for the serial killer I was stating to think that it wasn't going to be very good. It doesn't stay in this "nothing is happening mode" for the rest of the film and it does start to develop but for me what it developed into wasn't anything that would make me see it again.
What is the story about? Well. Carl Stargher likes to kill women by drowning them in a glass cell and he also likes to film it. When he has killed them he turns them into "dolls" by bleaching their skin and doing various other bizarre shit to them. He kidnaps another girl but he goes into a coma that the doctor reckons he will never come out of and so to find out where he has this girl - who is in a cell that will automtically fill with water if they don't get to her in time - Lopez has to go and find out from him in a bizzare parallel world type thing inside his mind. Wow! Exciting.
But it isn't really. Not in my opinion anyway. Some people may like it but I thought that it didn't have the excitment, or suspense, or just something to give it that little bit extra that it needed. A bit hit and miss.
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