The Cell (New Line Platinum Series)

Jlo at her best and the whole movie is great and beautiful

Would definitely buy this product again

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.

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

great movie. arrived quickly. new as described.

Crazy good!!!!!!

Do yourself a favor and watch this movie.

I saw the trailer for The Cell back around 2000 and was pretty intrigued. Not so intrigued that I ran out to see it, just intrigued enough to decide that I would one day get around to seeing it. But The Cell sort of fell off the planet. It was never in an Amazon feed, nor a "similar buyers viewed this..."Quite recently I stumbled across it again, and I ordered the DVD. The Cell is a hard movie to try to review. At its core it's a fusion of two dramatic tropes. First, the race to find the imperiled kidnap victim when the kidnapper is in custody, but not talking. Law and Order SVU does one of these nearly every season. The second is the psychological battle in a crossover brain link for control, done better in Dreamscape in 1984, and the brilliant Source Code 2011. There's nothing wrong with fusions. After all, Harry Potter is essentially a fusion of The Worst Witch and The Hardy Boys Mysteries.The Cell is a tale told in segments. The problem is the segments don't fit together very well. There are police procedural segments that do well enough on their own, but trip over their shoe laces when the story wants to get into dream territory. The trailer promised a surreal hellscape populated by a nightmarish Vincent d'Onofrio. It's here, but there isn't much. Lopez' dream walker is adequate, but hasn't much to work with. Vaughan's troubled detective is mostly just cranky. In the commentary the Director said he wasn't pleased with the detective as he crafted him and had to salvage an effective performance from a collage of takes. The commentary was of little value given the density of the director's accent and his insistence on speaking very fast. D'Onofrio was unsurprisingly excellent, but underutilized.The dream visuals were stunning, but not enough to glue it together.

GREAT MOVIE

Criminally underrated

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très beau blu ray 😍

Película con castellano .🇪🇸