CELL is the big-screen adaptation of one my least favourite Stephen King novels. I do like the subject of zombies but in the hands of King they ended up being ridiculous. This film version gets rid of some of the dumber elements from the novel - the levitation scenes, for example - but is still in no way good. Things are at their best in the early outbreak scene, which suffers from shaky camera syndrome a bit but is generally exciting if you can ignore the odd dodgy CGI shot of an exploding plane and the like. John Cusack, looking tired and bloated, is a poor choice of lead, while Samuel L. Jackson is purely on autopilot here and has none of the fire-and-brimstone charisma you see from him elsewhere. The film gets worse as it goes along, lacking suspense and saddled with unlikeable characters and cliched situations, until it ends on a scene which made me laugh out loud at the inept cheapness of it all.
Review of Cell
