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88By occupying their roles believably, by acting as we think their characters probably would, they save the movie from feeling like basic Hollywood action (even when it probably is). This is one of the year's best thrillers.
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80A thriller that isn't kinky isn't much of a thriller. And Cellular has the best kinky phone gimmick since "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).
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80This unpretentious little bit of superior craftsmanship will be utterly mesmerizing to two kinds of people in particular: those who love cell phones and those who hate them.
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75The 23-year-old Evans has been acting just four years, and his near-anonymity makes him well-cast: He's an Everyslacker breezing through life in Santa Monica, the kind of guy who could turn into a hero under the right circumstances or remain a zero the rest of his life.
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75Very slick, very compelling and not nearly as predictable as it sounds.
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70Basinger's debasement in the early part of the film is unpleasant to watch, and it's an unsettling bump in the context of the entertaining sheen of the rest of the picture. So much of Cellular is right on the button. If only it hadn't gotten its wires crossed.
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70The film works by putting the accelerator to the floor and never looking in the rear-view mirror.
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70It's an honest, unpretentious, well-made B picture with a clever, silly premise, a handful of sly, unassuming performances and enough car chases, decent jokes and swervy plot complications to make the price of the ticket seem like a decent bargain.
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70Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness.
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67It's mad, bad nonsense of the summer, popcorn variety, disposable but oh-so-much fun to endure, a roller coaster on a wobbly cinematic track.
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67Chris Evans is blithely likable despite a few faux-Cruise mannerisms, Basinger makes a vividly frightened yet resourceful woman in peril, and William H. Macy scores as a mild L.A. cop who lets out his inner macho.
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63A well-paced action film in the vein of "Speed."
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63A ludicrous little abduction thriller that boasts an entertaining cocktail of gunpowder, suspense, adrenaline, and cheese. I just couldn't hate this movie, and I really, really tried. It's tightly made and well written in deceptive ways that don't reveal themselves until past the halfway point.
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60The whole thing skims along on suspension of disbelief.
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60Basinger takes her shuddery Stanwyckness very seriously, but everyone else has a ball.
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60If you can cast all semblance of logic aside, it's sort of fun.
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60Because plot is the sum total here, the alarming holes, inconsistencies and impossibilities in Chris Morgan's script corrode this drama of distress.
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50Macy once again brightens an otherwise mundane character.
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50Slickly produced, well cast and very excitingly made, it's based on plot hooks so silly, most of them blow up in your face.
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50Entertaining in spite of itself.
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50As Ryan, Evans attempts to graduate from "Not Another Teen Movie"-type fare to more adult stuff. He holds his own, but he has no edge.
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50Basinger appears to be literally phoning in from another movie in the highly improbable, maniacally action-packed thriller-cum-comedy Cellular.
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50Distressingly predictable and not a tad scary. But as a parody of the genre, it's a scream, like the "Scream'' franchise, only funnier. It's as if all the ingredients for a thriller coagulated into Silly Putty.
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50That's not to say it isn't entertaining, only that the scenes which rely entirely on the fragile interplay between Jessica and Ryan suggest a more compelling movie that got lost in the welter of high-speed highway recklessness.
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50The movie crosses the line between offering mindless entertainment and insulting our intelligence.
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What's truly disheartening about Cellular is that just as logic has become a luxury in a thriller, so has anything resembling tension.
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50Illustrates what happens when a viable premise is spoiled by sheer preposterousness.
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50Cohen and a crew of script doctors have thrown in some of the oldest cliches in the book.
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25Using a kidnapping plot to call up some old-fashioned suspense, it doesn't even get a dial tone.
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