The Cell (2000)
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 109m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Synopsis:
A serial killer holds his captives in a glass cell due to be flooded by a timer mechanism, then bleaches them and uses them as dolls for his power fantasies. When his brain finally shorts out and coincidentally the FBI finds him, they only have forty-eight hours to discover where his latest victim is being held. They enlist the help of an experimental para-psychology facility to 'enter' his mind and cajole the information out of him.
Review:
Like The Lawnmower Man before it this is largely the excuse for some cutting edge digital work (from which perspective it is a profound disappointment). Most of the mindscapes are straight out of some glossy commercial, admittedly for some pretty sick merchandise, the design and makeup artists evidently having spent too long viewing Hellraiser films. Outside these scenes we have a rather perfunctory procedural capped with a time-honoured race against time to save the captive.
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 109m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Synopsis:
A serial killer holds his captives in a glass cell due to be flooded by a timer mechanism, then bleaches them and uses them as dolls for his power fantasies. When his brain finally shorts out and coincidentally the FBI finds him, they only have forty-eight hours to discover where his latest victim is being held. They enlist the help of an experimental para-psychology facility to 'enter' his mind and cajole the information out of him.
Review:
Like The Lawnmower Man before it this is largely the excuse for some cutting edge digital work (from which perspective it is a profound disappointment). Most of the mindscapes are straight out of some glossy commercial, admittedly for some pretty sick merchandise, the design and makeup artists evidently having spent too long viewing Hellraiser films. Outside these scenes we have a rather perfunctory procedural capped with a time-honoured race against time to save the captive.
Country: US/GER
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 109m
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Synopsis:
A serial killer holds his captives in a glass cell due to be flooded by a timer mechanism, then bleaches them and uses them as dolls for his power fantasies. When his brain finally shorts out and coincidentally the FBI finds him, they only have forty-eight hours to discover where his latest victim is being held. They enlist the help of an experimental para-psychology facility to 'enter' his mind and cajole the information out of him.
Review:
Like The Lawnmower Man before it this is largely the excuse for some cutting edge digital work (from which perspective it is a profound disappointment). Most of the mindscapes are straight out of some glossy commercial, admittedly for some pretty sick merchandise, the design and makeup artists evidently having spent too long viewing Hellraiser films. Outside these scenes we have a rather perfunctory procedural capped with a time-honoured race against time to save the captive.