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The Cell is a thriller about a laboratory where a person or two can enter the mind of a third person.  The lab is being funded and used by a rich man who has a son that is in a sort of coma because of an advanced state of schizophrenia.  Psychologist Catherine Deane is using the lab to enter the mind of little Edward Baines to try and bring him back to reality.  The boy's father is getting impatient and the project is in jeopardy.  Then the FBI comes in with a man, a serial murderer, who is in a state similar to that of young Edward.  They want Catherine to go into his mind because when he was found he had gone catatonic and he had a victim hidden away somewhere.  The race is on to the find the girl before she dies.  This job will be an absolute nightmare compared to the mindscape that Edward presents.  The mind of a serial killer is a much darker more twisted place.

The Cell is a pretty good thriller with some really twisted stuff in it that coupled with the entering of a maniacs mind pushes it more firmly into being a straight horror movie.  Vincent D'Onofrio is blazing hot as the really mental case serial killer Carl Stargher.  The visuals in this film are stunning for the most part and the images both beautiful and disturbing at the same time.  Some of the film may not be appropriate for the faint of heart, as some of it is pretty sick.  Still for those that appreciate such things this movie has the horror in spades even if it is sort of isolated to the people in the film and not as something that particularly carries over to the audience.  Not all of the acting is the best though, Jennifer Lopez certainly did not seem to have given her best work to this movie and as Catherine Dean comes over kind of flat and lacking in emotion.  Still that aside it is a good movie with a really nice dark flair to it.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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